TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Kathleen AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays, 2001 SN - 0618049312 (pbk.) AV - PS688.2 .B47 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 21st century N1 - In the memory mines / Diane Ackerman -- How to pray: reverence, stories, and the rebbe's dream / Ben Birnbaum -- The bone garden of desire / Charles Bowden -- Travels with R.L.S. / James Campbell -- Mail / Anne Fadiman -- The work of mourning / Francine du Plessix Gray -- Vin Laforge / Jeffrey Heiman -- Calliope times / Edward Hoagland -- India's American imports / Adam Hochschild -- Refugium / Barbara Hurd -- On impact / Stephen King -- Blue machinery of summer / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The midnight tour / Marcus Laffey -- Facing the village / Lemore Look -- Book marks / Rebecca McClanahan -- Trouble in the tribe / Daphne Merkin -- Provincetown / David Michaelis -- Brain-cell memories / Spencer Nadler -- Dust / Mary Oliver -- Dear Harper: a letter to a godchild / Reynolds Price -- The fineness of things / Tim Robinson -- Cut time / Carlo Rotella -- Exquisite corpse / Ashraf Rushdy -- The last word / Earl Shorris -- On being breathless / Bert O. States -- Upside down and backwards / William T. Vollmann ER -