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The best American essays 2004 / edited and with an introduction by Louis Menand ; series editor, Robert Atwan.
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004Description: xviii, 323 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0618357092 (pbk.) :
- PS688 .B47
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / Louis Menand -- America, look at your shame! / James Agee -- Envy / Kathryn Chetkovich -- The last Americans / Jared Diamond -- The Artic hedonist / Anne Fadiman -- Caught / Jonathan Franzen -- The unreal thing / Adam Gopnik -- A sudden illness / Laura Hillenbrand -- Passover in Baghdad / Tim Judah -- My 80's / Wayne Koestenbaum -- My Yiddish / Leonard Michaels -- Bix and Flannery / Ben Miller -- Against cool / Rick Moody -- Yarn / Kyoko Mori -- Lifelike / Susan Orlean -- Rock / Alex Ross -- The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks -- My lost city / Luc Sante -- Arrow and wound / Mark Slouka -- My father is a book / Janna Malamud Smith -- Bullet in my neck / Gerald Stern -- Amor Perdida / Tennessee Williams -- An enlarged heart / Cynthia Zarin -- Bibliographical notes -- Notable essays of 2003.
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Foreword -- Introduction / Louis Menand -- America, look at your shame! / James Agee -- Envy / Kathryn Chetkovich -- The last Americans / Jared Diamond -- The Artic hedonist / Anne Fadiman -- Caught / Jonathan Franzen -- The unreal thing / Adam Gopnik -- A sudden illness / Laura Hillenbrand -- Passover in Baghdad / Tim Judah -- My 80's / Wayne Koestenbaum -- My Yiddish / Leonard Michaels -- Bix and Flannery / Ben Miller -- Against cool / Rick Moody -- Yarn / Kyoko Mori -- Lifelike / Susan Orlean -- Rock / Alex Ross -- The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks -- My lost city / Luc Sante -- Arrow and wound / Mark Slouka -- My father is a book / Janna Malamud Smith -- Bullet in my neck / Gerald Stern -- Amor Perdida / Tennessee Williams -- An enlarged heart / Cynthia Zarin -- Bibliographical notes -- Notable essays of 2003.
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