TY  - BOOK
TI  - The best American essays 2004 / 
SN  - 0618357092 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS688 .B47
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - American essays
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Essays
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Annual; Publisher varies; 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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