The best American essays 2004 /
The best American essays 2004 /
edited and with an introduction by Louis Menend ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- xviii, 323 p. ; 21 cm.
- Best American series .
Includes biographical notes (p. [309]-315).
Foreword / Introduction / America, look at your shame / Envy / last Americans / Arctic hedonist / Caught / unreal thing / sudden illness / Passover in Baghdad / My 80's / My Yiddish / Bix and Flannery / Against cool / Yarn / Lifelike / Rock 101 / mind's eye / My lost city / Arrow and wound / My father is a book / Bullet in my neck / Amor perdido / enlarged heart / Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 2002. Robert Atwan -- Louis Menand -- James Agee -- Kathryn Chetkovich -- Jared Diamond -- Anne Fadiman -- Jonathan Franzen -- Adam Gopnik -- Laura Hillenbrand -- Tim Judah -- Wayne Koestenbaum -- Leonard Michaels -- Ben Miller -- Rick Moody -- Kyoko Mori -- Susan Orlean -- Alex Ross -- Oliver Sacks -- Luc Sante -- Mark Slouka -- Janna Malamud Smith -- Gerald Stern -- Tennnessee Williams -- Cynthia Zarin -- The The The A The An
0618357092 (pbk)
American essays--21st century.
814.08 / BES- 2004 6894
Includes biographical notes (p. [309]-315).
Foreword / Introduction / America, look at your shame / Envy / last Americans / Arctic hedonist / Caught / unreal thing / sudden illness / Passover in Baghdad / My 80's / My Yiddish / Bix and Flannery / Against cool / Yarn / Lifelike / Rock 101 / mind's eye / My lost city / Arrow and wound / My father is a book / Bullet in my neck / Amor perdido / enlarged heart / Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 2002. Robert Atwan -- Louis Menand -- James Agee -- Kathryn Chetkovich -- Jared Diamond -- Anne Fadiman -- Jonathan Franzen -- Adam Gopnik -- Laura Hillenbrand -- Tim Judah -- Wayne Koestenbaum -- Leonard Michaels -- Ben Miller -- Rick Moody -- Kyoko Mori -- Susan Orlean -- Alex Ross -- Oliver Sacks -- Luc Sante -- Mark Slouka -- Janna Malamud Smith -- Gerald Stern -- Tennnessee Williams -- Cynthia Zarin -- The The The A The An
0618357092 (pbk)
American essays--21st century.
814.08 / BES- 2004 6894