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The Best American Essays, 2004

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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.

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SERIES
Best American series.



PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: xviii, 323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0618357068 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Menand, Louis.
Atwan, Robert.

SUBJECTS
American essays -- 21st century.