The Best American Essays 2020
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Includes contributors' notes and other notable essays and literacy fiction from 2019.
How to bartend / Rabih Alameddine -- Ghost museum / Elvis Bego -- Driving as metaphor / Rachel Cusk -- The humanoid stain / Barbara Ehrenreich -- After the three-moon era / Gary Fincke -- Cosmic latte / Ron Huett -- A street full of splendid strangers / Leslie Jamison -- A letter to Robinson Crusoe / Jamaica Kincaid -- Maly Trostinets / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Body language / Alex Marzano-Lesnevich -- A thing about cancer / Clinton Crockett Peters -- The other Leopold / Susan Fox Rogers -- To grieve is to carry another time / Matthew Salesses -- 77 Sunset me / Peter Schjeldahl -- Under the sign of Susan / A. O. Scott -- Semantic drift / Lionel Shriver -- Ode al vento occidentale / Mark Sullivan -- Holiday review / Mark Sundeen -- My pink lake and other digressions / Alison Townsend -- Bed / David L. Ulin -- Breathe / Jerald Walker -- The unfound door / Stephanie Powell Watts -- Soul-error / Philip Weinstein -- Was Shakespeare a woman? / Elizabeth Winkler.
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Contents: How to bartend. -- Ghost museum. -- Driving as metaphor. -- Humanoid stain. -- After the three-moon era. -- Cosmic latte. -- Street full of splendid strangers. -- Letter to Robinson Crusoe. -- Maly Trostinets. -- Body language. -- Thing about cancer. -- Other Leopold. -- To grieve is to carry another time. -- 77 Sunset me. -- Under the sign of Susan. -- Semantic drift. -- Ode al vento occidentale. -- Holiday review. -- My pink lake and other digressions. -- Bed. -- Breathe. -- Unfound door. -- Soul-error. -- Was Shakespeare a woman?
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The best American series
PUBLISHED
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: xxxii, 293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780358359913
0358359910
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Aciman, André,
Atwan, Robert,
Alameddine, Rabih.
Bego, Elvis.
Cusk, Rachel, 1967-
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Fincke, Gary.
Huett, Ron.
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
Kincaid, Jamaica.
Koerner, Joseph Leo.
Marzano-Lesnevich, Alex, 1977-
Peters, Clinton Crockett.
Rogers, Susan Fox.
Salesses, Matthew.
Schjeldahl, Peter.
Scott, A. O., 1966-
Shriver, Lionel.
Sullivan, Mark, 1961-
Sundeen, Mark, 1970-
Townsend, Alison.
Ulin, David L.
Walker, Jerald.
Watts, Stephanie Powell.
Weinstein, Philip M.
Winkler, Elizabeth (Journalist).
SUBJECTS
American essays -- 21st century.
Essays.