The best American essays 2016

The best American essays 2016 / edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. He brings his "elegance, acumen, and daring as an essayist" (New York Times) to the collection

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Other Authors: Franzen, Jonathan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Series:Best American series.
Subjects:
2000-2099
American essays > 21st century.
Electronic books.
e-books.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
American essays
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bajadas / Francisco Cantú
  • Girl / Alexander Chee
  • Against honeymoons / Charles Comey
  • Names / Paul Crenshaw
  • Ordinary girls / Jaquira Díaz
  • My father and the wine / Irina Dumitrescu
  • My heart lies between "the fleet" and "all the ships" / Ela Harrison
  • The bonds of battle / Sebastian Junger
  • Sexual paranoia / Laura Kipnis
  • Thin places / Jordan Kisner
  • Pyre / Amitava Kumar
  • Of human carnage / Richard M. Lange
  • Bastards / Lee Martin
  • Family tradition / Lisa Nikolidakis
  • The lost sister : an elegy / Joyce Carol Oates
  • Right/left : a triptych / Marsha Pomerantz
  • Big night / Jill Sisson Quinn
  • Killing like they do in the movies / Justin Phillip Reed
  • A general feeling of disorder / Oliver Sacks
  • In praise of contempt / Katherine E. Standefer
  • The eleventh commandment / George Steiner
  • Namesake / Mason Stokes
  • Black and blue and blond / Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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