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E-book: Best American Essays 2014

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  • Pub. Date: 07-Oct-2014
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780544309326
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  • Format: EPUB+DRM
  • Pub. Date: 07-Oct-2014
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780544309326

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A collection of the years most esteemed and thought-provoking essays includes entries previously published in a variety of respected literary periodicals and is selected and introduced by the author of the acclaimed essay collection Pulphead. Original. 40,000 first printing. Offers a selection of literary essays from the year 2014 which were originally published in American periodicals. Pulphead author John Jeremiah Sullivan, "among the best young non-fiction writers in English" (The New York Times), picks the years best essays selected from hundereds of magazines, journals, and websites.
Foreword ix
Robert Atwan
Introduction: The Ill-Defined Plot xvii
John Jeremiah Sullivan
A Matter of Life and Death
1(4)
Timothy Aubry
From The Point
Strange Beads
5(13)
Wendy Brenner
From Oxford American
The Final Day in Rome
18(4)
John H. Culver
From The Gettysburg Review
Letter from Williamsburg
22(9)
Kristin Dombek
From The Paris Review
The Man at the River
31(3)
Dave Eggers
From Granta
At Sixty-Five
34(7)
Emily Fox Gordon
From The American Scholar
On Enmity
41(8)
Mary Gordon
From Salmagundi
Letter From Greenwich Village
49(17)
Vivian Gornick
From The Paris Review
Slickheads
66(17)
Lawrence Jackson
From n+1
The Devil's Bait
83(17)
Leslie Jamison
From Harper's Magazine
Thanksgiving in Mongolia
100(9)
Ariel Levy
From The New Yorker
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
109(13)
Yiyun Li
From A Public Space
Sliver of Sky
122(18)
Barry Lopez
From Harper's Magazine
Someone Else
140(5)
Chris Offutt
From River Teeth
Joy
145(7)
Zadie Smith
From The New York Review of Books
Little X
152(13)
Elizabeth Tallent
From The Threepenny Review
The Old Man at Burning Man
165(21)
Wells Tower
From GQ
How to Make a Slave
186(5)
Jerald Walker
From Southern Humanities Review
On Being Introduced
191(4)
Paul West
From The Yale Review
Becoming Them
195(7)
James Wood
From The New Yorker
Legend: Willem de Kooning
202(15)
Baron Wormser
From Grist
Contributors' Notes 217(4)
Notable Essays of 2013 221