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_b.B47 1992
245 0 4 _aThe best American essays, 1992 /
_cedited and with an introduction by Susan Sontag ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
260 _aNew York :
_bTicknor & Fields,
_c1992.
300 _axix, 331 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aShort talks / Anne Carson -- Sentimental journeys / Joan Didion -- Standards / E.L. Doctorow -- Liberty and pornography / Ronald Dworkin -- Some overrated masterpieces / Stanley Elkin -- Thinking about killing: Hamlet and the paths among the passions / Philip Fisher -- Exile / William H. Gass -- Audubon's passion / Adam Gopnik -- Canon, syllabus, list: a note on the pedagogic imaginary / John Guillory -- Wind from the prairie / Elizabeth Hardwick -- What's wrong with animal rights / Vicki Hearne -- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Opera and homosexuality: seven arias / Wayne Koestenbaum -- The zipper / Leonard Michaels -- Victims, all? / David Rieff -- Look away, Dixie Land / Patricia Storace -- Needs / George W.S. Trow -- First things first ; The mystery of Mickey Mouse / John Updike -- Lincoln up close / Gore Vidal.
650 0 _aAmerican essays
_y20th century.
700 1 _aSontag, Susan,
_d1933-
700 1 _aAtwan, Robert.
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