TY - BOOK AU - Sontag,Susan AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays, 1992 SN - 0395599369(pbk.) AV - PS681 .B47 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Ticknor & Fields KW - American essays KW - 20th century N1 - Short talks / Anne Carson -- Sentimental journeys / Joan Didion -- Standards / E.L. Doctorow -- Liberty and pornography / Ronald Dworkin -- Some overrated masterpieces / Stanley Elkin -- Thinking about killing: Hamlet and the paths among the passions / Philip Fisher -- Exile / William H. Gass -- Audubon's passion / Adam Gopnik -- Canon, syllabus, list: a note on the pedagogic imaginary / John Guillory -- Wind from the prairie / Elizabeth Hardwick -- What's wrong with animal rights / Vicki Hearne -- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Opera and homosexuality: seven arias / Wayne Koestenbaum -- The zipper / Leonard Michaels -- Victims, all? / David Rieff -- Look away, Dixie Land / Patricia Storace -- Needs / George W.S. Trow -- First things first ; The mystery of Mickey Mouse / John Updike -- Lincoln up close / Gore Vidal ER -