The Best American Essays 2020
The Best American Essays 2020

Author: Andr Aciman

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0358359910

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Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

The Best American Essays 2003
The Best American Essays 2003

Author: Robert Atwan

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780618341610

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A collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre.

The Best American Essays 1992
The Best American Essays 1992

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780395599365

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Hailed as the single most distinguished showcase for essays, The Best American Essays exhibits the finest writing from magazines and journals across the country. This year Susan Sontag has collected an extraordinary range of talent that includes such notables as Joan Didion, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, and Stanley Elkin.

The Next American Essay
The Next American Essay

Author: John D'Agata

Publisher: New History of the Essay

Published: 2003-02

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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A collection of nonfiction essays on such topics as culture, myth, history, romance, and sex includes contributions by such authors as Guy Davenport, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Susan Sontag. In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, the Search for Marvin Gardens, D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are unrestrained, elusive, explosive, mysterious, a personal lingual playground. They encompass and illuminate culture, myth, history, romance, and sex. Each essay is a world of its own, a world so distinctive it resists definition.

The Making of the American Essay
The Making of the American Essay

Author: John D'Agata

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 821

ISBN-13: 1555977340

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"Now, with "The making of the American essay' the editor includes selections ranging from Anne Bradstreet's secular prayers to Washington Irving's satires, Emily Dickinson's love letters to Kenneth Goldsmith's catalog's, Gertrude Stein's portraits to James Baldwin's and Norman Mailer's mediations on boxing. In this volume the editor uncovers new stories in the American essay's past and shows us that some of the most fiercely daring writers in the American literary canon have turned to the essay in order to produce some of our culture's most exhilarating art."-- book jacket.

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

Author: Roberto Bolaño

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2011-05-30

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0811218147

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Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

Alibis
Alibis

Author: André Aciman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1429995068

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A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.