The Best American essays, 1990 / 
edited and with an introduction by Justin Kaplan ; Robert Atwan, series editor. 
 - New York :  Ticknor & Fields,  1990. 
 - xix, 308 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Armenian journal / Michael Arlen -- The paradoxes of creativity / Jacques Barzun -- Intoxicated by my illness / Anatole Broyard -- Shouting "fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz -- The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard -- At the Academy Awards / Stanley Elkin -- A few kind words for envy / Joseph Epstein -- The creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould -- No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman -- The Vicksburg ghost / Sue Hubbell -- The corpse in the mirror : the Warhol wake / Stuart Klawans -- Vital signs / Natalie Kusz -- The fisherwoman's daughter / Ursula R. Le Guin -- Raymond Carver, mentor / Jay McInerney -- To Blacks and Jews : Hab Rachmones / James A. McPherson -- I'm having trouble with my relationship / Leonard Michaels -- Why mow? : the case against lawns / Michael Pollan -- Talking AIDS to death / Randy Shilts -- Portrait of the artist as a lion on stilts / Paul West -- Save the whales, screw the shrimp / Joy Williams -- Stalking the billion-footed beast / Tom Wolfe. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0899199372 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90208572 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688  / .B47 1990