| Description |
xxxii, 293 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series.
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| Note |
Includes contributors' notes and other notable essays and literacy fiction from 2019. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-293). |
| Summary |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals. |
| Contents |
How to bartend / Rabih Alameddine -- Ghost museum / Elvis Bego -- Driving as metaphor / Rachel Cusk -- The humanoid stain / Barbara Ehrenreich -- After the three-moon era / Gary Fincke -- Cosmic latte / Ron Huett -- A street full of splendid strangers / Leslie Jamison -- A letter to Robinson Crusoe / Jamaica Kincaid -- Maly Trostinets / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Body language / Alex Marzano-Lesnevich -- A thing about cancer / Clinton Crockett Peters -- The other Leopold / Susan Fox Rogers -- To grieve is to carry another time / Matthew Salesses -- 77 Sunset me / Peter Schjeldahl -- Under the sign of Susan / A. O. Scott -- Semantic drift / Lionel Shriver -- Ode al vento occidentale / Mark Sullivan -- Holiday review / Mark Sundeen -- My pink lake and other digressions / Alison Townsend -- Bed / David L. Ulin -- Breathe / Jerald Walker -- The unfound door / Stephanie Powell Watts -- Soul-error / Philip Weinstein -- Was Shakespeare a woman? / Elizabeth Winkler. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Aciman, André, editor, writer of introduction.
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Atwan, Robert, editor.
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Alameddine, Rabih, author.
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Bego, Elvis, author.
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Cusk, Rachel, 1967- author.
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Ehrenreich, Barbara, author.
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aFincke, Gary, author.
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aHuett, Ron.
Cosmic latte.
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Jamison, Leslie, 1983- author.
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Kincaid, Jamaica, author.
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Koerner, Joseph Leo, author.
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Marzano-Lesnevich, Alexandria.
Body language.
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Peters, Clinton Crockett, author.
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Rogers, Susan Fox, author.
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Salesses, Matthew, author.
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Schjeldahl, Peter, author.
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Scott, A. O., 1966- author.
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Shriver, Lionel, author.
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Sullivan, Mark, 1961- author.
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Sundeen, Mark, 1970- author.
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Townsend, Alison, author.
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Ulin, David L., author.
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Walker, Jerald, author.
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Watts, Stephanie Powell, author.
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Weinstein, Philip M., author.
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Winkler, Elizabeth (Journalist), author.
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| ISBN |
9780358359913 (softcover) |
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0358359910 (softcover) |
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