TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,Mary
AU  - Atwan,Robert
TI  - The best American essays 2009
SN  - 9780618982721
AV  - PS688.2 .B47 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - American essays
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Taking a reading / Sue Allison -- (En)trance / Chris Arthur -- Portrait of a masked man / John Berger -- Faustian economics / Wendell Berry -- The greatest nature essay ever / Brian Doyle -- Cherish this ecstasy / David James Duncan -- The dark age of description / Patricia Hampl -- And such small deer / Garret Keizer -- Our vanishing night / Verlyn Klinkenborg -- You be the moon / Amy Leach -- The mansion: a supreme parable / Michael Lewis -- Madre de Dios / Barry Lopez -- Faint Music / James Marcus -- Cuss time / Jill McCorkle -- Dog is our copilot / Kathryn Miles -- Return to Hayneville / Gregory Orr -- Ghost writers / Cynthia Ozick -- The god of the desert / Richard Rodriguez -- Shipwrecked / Janna Malamud Smith -- The writer in winter / John Updike -- First / Ryan van Meter -- The mechanics of being / Jerald Walker
ER  -