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The Best American Essays, 2017 / edited and with an introduction by Leslie Jamison ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544817333
- ISBN: 0544817338
- Physical Description: xxvi, 302 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Mariner original." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Two shallow graves / Jason Armet -- The weight of James Arthur Baldwin / Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah -- White horse / Eliese Colette Goldbach -- The city that bleeds / Lawrence Jackson -- "We are ophans here" / Rachel Kushner -- What comes before the big bang? / Alan Lightman -- Cost of living / Emily Maloney -- If I only had a leg / Greg Marshall -- Working the city / Bernard Farai Matambo -- Sparrow needy / Kenneth A. McClane -- The book of the dead / Catherine Venable Moore -- Last taboo / Wesley Morris -- Indigent disposition / Christopher Notarnicola -- Dispatch from flyover country / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- The reader is the protagonist / Karen Palmer -- H / Sarah Resnick -- Haywire / Heather Sellers -- Travels in Pornland / Andrea Stuart -- Revenge of the mouthbreathers: a smoker's manifesto / June Thunderstorm -- Snakebit / Alia Volz. |
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| Subject: | American essays > 21st century. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Plainfield-Guilford Twp PL - Plainfield | 814.608 Best 2017 (Text) | 31208912530609 | non-fiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
ANew York Times best-selling essayist selects the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals and websites. Original. 30,000 first printing. - HARPERCOLL
"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever."
--Publishers Weekly
“The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic makeup of the eclectic and electric selections in The Best American Essays 2017 “thrill toward complexity.”
The Best American Essays 2017 includes
RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON,
RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO,
WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUART
and others - Houghton"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever."
--Publishers Weekly
'the essay is political'and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative'because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust'faith and doubt'that structures its DNA," writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic makeup of the eclectic and electric selections in The Best American Essays 2017 'thrill toward complexity."
The Best American Essays 2017 includes
RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON,
RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO,
WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUART
and others - Houghton"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever."
--Publishers Weekly
“The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi desert to an East Jerusalem refugee camp, from the beginnings of the universe to the aftermath of a suicide attempt, the genetic makeup of the eclectic and electric selections in The Best American Essays 2017 “thrill toward complexity.”
The Best American Essays 2017 includes
RACHEL KAADZI GHANSAH, LAWRENCE JACKSON,
RACHEL KUSHNER, ALAN LIGHTMAN, BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO,
WESLEY MORRIS, HEATHER SELLERS, ANDREA STUART
and others - HoughtonThe best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.
