TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slater,Lauren
AU  - Atwan,Robert
TI  - The best American essays, 2006
SN  - 0618705295 (pbk.)
AV  - PS 688  .B47 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Co.
KW  - American essays
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index; Contents: Kinsey and me / Laurie Abraham -- 501 minutes to Christ / Poe Ballantine -- Teaching the N-Word / Emily Bernard -- City out of breath / Ken Chen -- Beginning dialogues / Toi Derricotte -- Culture of celebrity / Joseph Epstein -- Whistling in the dark / Eugene Goodheart -- Death of a fish / Adam Gopnik -- Relief / Kim Dana Kupperman -- Grammar Lessons: The subjunctive / Michele Morano -- Lost dog / Susan Orlean -- George / Sam Pickering -- Shame / Robert Polito -- Illness as more than metaphor / David Rieff -- Recalled to life / Oliver Sacks -- Confessions of a left-handed man / Peter Selgin -- Why write? / Alan Shapiro -- Group grief / Lily Tuck -- Missing Bellow / Scott Turow -- Matter of life and death / Marjorie Williams
ER  -