TY - BOOK AU - Lightman,Alan P. AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays, 2000 SN - 061803580X (pbk.) AV - PS688.2 .B47 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 20th century N1 - The last time I saw Paris / Andre Aciman -- In distrust of movements / Wendell Berry -- The joys and perils of victimhood / Ian Buruma -- A son in shadow / Fred D'Aguiar -- Westbury court / Edwidge Danticat -- In defense of the book / William H. Gass -- Rome: the visible city / Mary Gordon -- Earth's eye / Edward Hoagland -- Those words that echo ... echo ... echo through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- If you are what you eat, then what am I? / Geeta Kothari -- The resurrectionist / Richard McCann -- The synthetic sublime / Cynthia Ozick -- The force of spirit / Scott Russell Sanders -- At a certain age / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The Singer solution to world poverty / Peter Singer -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Listening for silence / Mark Slouka -- Heroin/e / Cheryl Strayed -- What's so bad about hate? / Andrew Sullivan -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams ER -