TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Justin AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The Best American essays, 1990 SN - 0899199372 (pbk.) AV - PS688 .B47 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - Ticknor & Fields KW - American essays KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -