| Description |
xviii, 615 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
I am the happiness of this world / Hilton Als -- One summer / Nicholson Baker -- Portrait of the bagel as a young man / Thomas Beller -- Brave face / Sven Birkerts -- Excerpt from On immunity / Eula Biss -- Tactless / Mary Cappello -- Decreation : how women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil tell God / Anne Carson -- Home alone / Terry Castle -- Girl / Alexander Chee -- Black body / Teju Cole -- Greedy sleep / Bernard Cooper -- The doctor is a woman / Sloane Crosley -- Loitering / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Matricide -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to doughnut plant doughnuts) / Geoff Dyer -- CID-LAX-BOG / Lina Ferreira -- Doing no harm : some thoughts on reading and writing in the age of umbrage / Lynn Freed -- The case of the angry daughter / Rivka Galchen -- Scat / Ross Gay -- On revenge / Louise Glück -- Faculty wife Emily Fox Gordon -- Other people's secrets / Patricia Hampl -- The aquarium / Aleksandar Hemon -- The terror of love / Samantha Irby -- The empathy exams / Leslie Jamison -- Negroland / Margo Jefferson -- Domestic gulags / Laura Kipnis -- Ann; death and the maiden / David Lazar -- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li -- Experience necessary / Phillip Lopate -- The invitation / Barry Lopez -- Bodies in motion and at rest / Thomas Lynch -- Draft no. 4 / John McPhee -- Failure : another meditation, another iteration (with interruptions) / Ander Monson -- Live through that?! / Eileen Myles -- Excerpt from The argonauts / Maggie Nelson -- Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- A visit to San Quentin / Joyce Carol Oates -- Busted in New York / Darryl Pinckney -- Against "gunmetal" / Lia Purpura -- Beeper world / Karen Russell -- This old house / David Sedaris -- Differences : sex, separateness & marriage / Shifra Sharlin -- Information sickness / David Shields -- Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot -- Cassandra among the creeps / Rebecca Solnit -- Eric Garner and me / Clifford Thompson -- We out here / Wesley Yang. |
| Summary |
"The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Lopate, Phillip, 1943- editor.
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Als, Hilton.
I am the happiness of this world.
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Baker, Nicholson.
One summer.
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Beller, Thomas.
Portrait of the bagel as a young man.
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Birkerts, Sven.
Brave face.
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Biss, Eula.
On immunity.
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Cappello, Mary.
Tactless.
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Carson, Anne, 1950-
Decreation.
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Castle, Terry.
Home alone.
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Chee, Alexander.
Girl.
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Cole, Teju.
Black body.
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Cooper, Bernard.
Greedy sleep.
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Crosley, Sloane.
The doctor is a woman.
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D'Ambrosio, Charles.
Essays. Selections.
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Doyle, Brian.
Joyas Voladoras.
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Dyer, Geoff.
Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference todoughnut plant doughnuts.
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Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Lina Maria.
CID-LAX-BOG.
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Freed, Lynn.
Doing no harm : some thoughts on reading and writing in the age of umbrage.
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Galchen, Rivka.
The case of the angry daughter.
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Gay, Ross, 1974-
Scat.
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Glück, Louise, 1943-
On revenge.
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Gordon, Emily Fox, 1948-
Faculty wife.
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Hampl, Patricia, 1946-
Other people's secrets.
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Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
The aquarium.
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Irby, Samantha.
The terror of love.
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Jamison, Leslie.
The empathy exams.
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Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
Negroland.
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Kipnis, Laura.
Domestic gulags.
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Lazar, David, 1957-
Ann; death and the maiden.
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Li, Yiyun, 1971-
Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life.
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Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
Experience necessary.
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Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-2020.
The invitation.
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Lynch, Thomas, 1948-
Bodies in motion and in rest.
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McPhee, John (John A.).
Draft no. 4.
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Monson, Ander, 1975-
Failure : another meditation, another iteration (with interruptions)
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Myles, Eileen.
Live through that.
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Nelson, Maggie, 1973-
Excerpt from the argonauts.
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O'Gieblyn, Meghan, 1982-
Homeschool.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
A visit to San Quentin.
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Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
Busted in New York.
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Purpura, Lia, 1964-
Against "gunmetal."
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Russell, Karen, 1981-
Beeper world.
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Sedaris, David.
This old house.
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Sharlin, Shifra.
Differences : sex, separateness & marriage.
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Shields, David, 1956-
Information sickness.
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Skloot, Floyd.
Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain.
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Solnit, Rebecca.
Cassandra among the creeps.
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Thompson, Clifford.
Eric Garner and me.
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Yang, Wesley.
We out of here.
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| ISBN |
9780525567325 (paperback) |
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0525567321 (paperback) |
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