The best American essays 2006 /
The best American essays 2006 /
edited and with an introduction by Lauren Slater ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006.
- xxii, 277 p. ; 21 cm.
- Best American series. .
Foreword / by Robert Atwan -- Introduction / by Lauren Slater -- Kinsey and me / Laurie Abraham -- 501 minutes to Christ / Poe Ballantine -- Teaching the N-word / Emily Bernard -- City out of breath / Ken Chen -- Beginning dialogues / Toi Derricotte -- The culture of celebrity / Joseph Epstein -- Whistling in the dark / Eugene Goodheart -- Death of a fish / Adam Gopnik -- Relief / Kim Dana Kupperman -- Grammar lessons: the subjunctive mood / Michele Morano -- Lost dog / Susan Orlean -- George / Sam Pickering -- Shame / Robert Polito -- Illness as more than metaphor / David Rieff -- Recalled to life / David Sacks -- Confessions of a left-handed man / Peter Selgin -- Why write? / Alan Shapiro -- Group grief / Lily Tuck -- Missing Bellow / Scott Turow -- A matter of life and death / Marjorie Williams.
0618705295 (pbk.) :
American essays--21st century.
PS688.2 / .B47 2006
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Foreword / by Robert Atwan -- Introduction / by Lauren Slater -- Kinsey and me / Laurie Abraham -- 501 minutes to Christ / Poe Ballantine -- Teaching the N-word / Emily Bernard -- City out of breath / Ken Chen -- Beginning dialogues / Toi Derricotte -- The culture of celebrity / Joseph Epstein -- Whistling in the dark / Eugene Goodheart -- Death of a fish / Adam Gopnik -- Relief / Kim Dana Kupperman -- Grammar lessons: the subjunctive mood / Michele Morano -- Lost dog / Susan Orlean -- George / Sam Pickering -- Shame / Robert Polito -- Illness as more than metaphor / David Rieff -- Recalled to life / David Sacks -- Confessions of a left-handed man / Peter Selgin -- Why write? / Alan Shapiro -- Group grief / Lily Tuck -- Missing Bellow / Scott Turow -- A matter of life and death / Marjorie Williams.
0618705295 (pbk.) :
American essays--21st century.
PS688.2 / .B47 2006
808/.0427