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The best American essays, 2000 / edited and with an introduction by Alan Lightman ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.Description: xviii, 233 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 061803580X (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS688.2 .B47 2000
Contents:
The last time I saw Paris / Andre Aciman -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- The joys and perils of victimhood / Ian Buruma -- A son in shadow / Fred D'Aguiar -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In defense of the book / William H. Gass -- Rome: the visible city / Mary Gordon -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- Those words that echo ... echo ... echo through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari -- The resurrectionist / Richard McCann -- The synthetic sublime / Cynthia Ozick -- The force of spirit / Scott Russell Sanders -- At a certain age / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Listening for silence / Mark Slouka -- Heroin/e / Cheryl Strayed -- What's so bad about hate? / Andrew Sullivan -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams.
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The last time I saw Paris / Andre Aciman -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- The joys and perils of victimhood / Ian Buruma -- A son in shadow / Fred D'Aguiar -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In defense of the book / William H. Gass -- Rome: the visible city / Mary Gordon -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- Those words that echo ... echo ... echo through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari -- The resurrectionist / Richard McCann -- The synthetic sublime / Cynthia Ozick -- The force of spirit / Scott Russell Sanders -- At a certain age / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Listening for silence / Mark Slouka -- Heroin/e / Cheryl Strayed -- What's so bad about hate? / Andrew Sullivan -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams.

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