The best American essays, 1996 / 
edited and with an introduction by Geoffrey C. Ward ; Robert Atwan, series editor. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1996. 
 - xiv, 370 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Cather and the academy / Joan Acocella -- Books as furniture / Nicholson Baker -- Midnight in the garden of good and Elvis / Julie Baumgold -- Influenza 1918 / Jane Brox -- The trouble with wilderness / William Cronon -- Hooked / Stanley Crouch -- Understanding Afrocentrism : why Blacks dream of a world without whites / Gerald Early -- The art of the nap / Joseph Epstein -- A lesson from Michelangelo / James Fenton -- Take the F / Ian Frazier -- The ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi / Amitav Ghosh -- Wonderland / Adam Gopnik -- The Black widow / Gordon Grice -- Brightness visible / Edward Hoagland -- Coming home again / Chang-Rae Lee -- Crabcakes / James Alan McPherson -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Owls / Mary Oliver -- Slouching toward Washington / Darryl Pinckney -- Last call of the wild / Jonathan Raban -- One violent crime / Bruce Shapiro -- A case of the great pox / William Styron. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395717574 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688  / .B47 1996