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Title:

The best American essays 2004 / edited and with an introduction by Louis Menend ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xviii, 323 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

American essays--21st century.

Other Authors:

Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
Atwan, Robert.

Notes:

Includes biographical notes (p. [309]-315).

Contents:

Notable essays of 2002. Cynthia Zarin -- Introduction / Louis Menand -- America, look at your shame / James Agee -- Envy / Kathryn Chetkovich -- An 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.

Series:

Best American series.

ISBN:

9780618357093
0618357092

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56700625

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)