TY - BOOK AU - Gopnik,Adam TI - The best American essays 2008 SN - 9780618983223 AV - PS688.2 .B47 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 21st century N1 - Cracking open / Patricia Brieschke -- Becoming Adolf / Rich Cohen -- The constant gardener / Bernard Cooper -- The way we age now / Atul Gwwande -- Everybody?s nickname / Albert Goldbarth -- On necklaces / Emily R. Grosholz -- Candid camera / Anthony Lane -- The ecstasy of influence / Jonathan Lethem -- The lesbian bride?s handbook / Ariel Levy -- Salamanca / Jamal Mahjoub -- Notable quotables / Louis Menand -- Solipsism / Ander Monson -- On celestial music / Rick Moody -- Cricket fighting / Hugh Raffles -- This old house / David Sedaris -- Run like the fire once more / Sam Shaw -- The renegade / Charles Simic -- Tripp Lake / Lauren Slater -- Extreme dinosaurs / John Updike -- Where God is glad / Joe Wenderoth -- Buzzards / Lee Zacharias ER -