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The Best American Essays, 2010

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"A Mariner original"--T.p. verso.
Introduction / Christopher Hitchens -- The murder of Leo Tolstoy / Elif Batuman -- The bad lion / Toni Bentley -- The dead book / Jane Churchon -- Irreconcilable dissonance / Brian Doyle -- The elegant eyeball / John Gamel -- How Einstein divided America's Jews / Walter Isaacson -- Lunching on Olympus / Steven L. Isenberg -- Me, myself, and I / Jane Kramer -- When writers speak / Arthur Krystal -- A rake's progress / Matt Labash -- Brooklyn the unknowable / Phillip Lopate -- On John Updike / Ian McEwan -- My genome, my self / Steven Pinker -- Gyromancy / Ron Rindo -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith -- Rediscovering Central Asia / S. Frederick Starr -- Gettysburg regress / John H. Summers -- Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman -- Daredevil / Garry Wills -- A fine rage / James Wood.

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Best American series.



PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 272 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780547394510
0547394519

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hitchens, Christopher.
Atwan, Robert.

SUBJECTS
American essays -- 21st century.