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_b.B47 1990
245 0 4 _aThe Best American essays, 1990 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Justin Kaplan ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aNew York :
_bTicknor & Fields,
_c1990.
300 _axix, 308 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aArmenian journal / Michael Arlen -- The paradoxes of creativity / Jacques Barzun -- Intoxicated by my illness / Anatole Broyard -- Shouting "fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz -- The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard -- At the Academy Awards / Stanley Elkin -- A few kind words for envy / Joseph Epstein -- The creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould -- No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman -- The Vicksburg ghost / Sue Hubbell -- The corpse in the mirror : the Warhol wake / Stuart Klawans -- Vital signs / Natalie Kusz -- The fisherwoman's daughter / Ursula R. Le Guin -- Raymond Carver, mentor / Jay McInerney -- To Blacks and Jews : Hab Rachmones / James A. McPherson -- I'm having trouble with my relationship / Leonard Michaels -- Why mow? : the case against lawns / Michael Pollan -- Talking AIDS to death / Randy Shilts -- Portrait of the artist as a lion on stilts / Paul West -- Save the whales, screw the shrimp / Joy Williams -- Stalking the billion-footed beast / Tom Wolfe.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
700 1 _aKaplan, Justin.
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert.
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