TY - BOOK AU - Orlean,Susan AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays 2005 SN - 0618357130 AV - PS688.2 .B47 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 21st century N1 - Includes biographical notes (p. [279]-283); Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Susan Orlean -- La Vie en Rose / Roger Angell -- The Sea of Information / Andrea Barrett -- Storm Country / Paul Crenshaw -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog / Kitty Burns Florey -- The Comfort Aone / Jonathan Franzen -- If Memory Doesn't Serve / Ian Frazier -- Against Exercise / Mark Greif -- Small Silences / Edward Hoagland -- Small Rooms in Time / Ted Kooser -- Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn / Jonathan Lethem -- Mastering the Art of French Cooking / E.J. Levy -- Contributor's Note / Michael Martone -- My Friend Lodovico / David Masello -- Living Will / Danielle Ofri -- Dog Days / Sam Pickering -- Speed / Oliver Sacks -- Dog Trouble / Cathleen Schine -- Old Faithful David Sedaris -- Six Seconds / Paula Speck -- Skill Display In birding Groups / Bert O. States -- The Prince of Possibility / Robert Stone -- Dining With Robots / Ellen Ullman -- Consider the Lobster / David Foster Wallace -- Satin Worship / Holly Welker -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 2004 ER -