TY - BOOK AU - Fadiman,Anne AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays 2004 T2 - Best American series SN - 0618357092 (pbk) U1 - 814.08 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 21st century N1 - Includes biographical notes (p. [309]-315); Foreword; Robert Atwan --; Introduction; Louis Menand --; America, look at your shame; James Agee --; Envy; Kathryn Chetkovich --; The; last Americans; Jared Diamond --; The; Arctic 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 101; 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 perdido; Tennnessee Williams --; An; enlarged heart; Cynthia Zarin --; Biographical notes --; Notable essays of 2002 ER -