| International Standard Book Number |
9780358359913 (paperback)
|
| International Standard Book Number |
0358359910 (paperback)
|
| Title Statement |
The best American essays 2020 / edited and with an introduction by Andre Aciman ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
|
| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
|
| Physical Description |
xxxii, 293 pages ; 21 cm.
|
| Series Statement |
Best American series
|
| General Note |
Includes contributors' notes and other notable essays and literacy fiction from 2019.
|
| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-293).
|
| Formatted Contents Note |
How to bartend / Ghost museum / Driving as metaphor / The humanoid stain / After the three-moon era / Cosmic latte / My pink lake and other digressions / Bed / Breathe / The unfound door / Soul-error / Was Shakespeare a woman? / To grieve is to carry another time / 77 Sunset me / Under the sign of Susan / Semantic drift / Ode al vento occidentale / Holiday review / A street full of splendid strangers / A letter to Robinson Crusoe / Maly Trostinets / Body language / A thing about cancer / The other Leopold / Rabih Alameddine -- Elvis Bego -- Rachel Cusk -- Barbara Ehrenreich -- Gary Fincke -- Ron Huett -- Alison Townsend -- David L. Ulin -- Jerald Walker -- Stephanie Powell Watts -- Philip Weinstein -- Elizabeth Winkler. Matthew Salesses -- Peter Schjeldahl -- A. O. Scott -- Lionel Shriver -- Mark Sullivan -- Mark Sundeen -- Leslie Jamison -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Joseph Leo Koerner -- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich -- Clinton Crockett Peters -- Susan Fox Rogers --
|
| Summary, Etc. |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
American essays 21st century.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Kincaid, Jamaica. Letter to Robinson Crusoe.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Sundeen, Mark, 1970- Holiday review.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Humanoid stain.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Cusk, Rachel, 1967- Driving as metaphor.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Jamison, Leslie, 1983- Street full of splendid strangers.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Shriver, Lionel. Semantic drift.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Ulin, David L. Bed.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Alameddine, Rabih. How to bartend.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Watts, Stephanie Powell. Unfound door.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Atwan, Robert. editor.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Aciman, Andre. editor, writer of introduction.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Schjeldahl, Peter. 77 Sunset me.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Walker, Jerald. Breathe.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Bego, Elvis. Ghost museum.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Fincke, Gary. After the three-moon era.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Huett, Ron. Cosmic latte.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Koerner, Joseph Leo. Maly Trostinets.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Marzano-Lesnevich, Alex, 1977- Body language.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Peters, Clinton Crockett. Thing about cancer.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Rogers, Susan Fox. Other Leopold.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Salesses, Matthew. To grieve is to carry another time.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Scott, A. O., 1966- Under the sign of Susan.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Sullivan, Mark, 1961- Ode al vento occidentale.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Townsend, Alison. My pink lake and other digressions.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Weinstein, Philip M. Soul-error.
|
| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Winkler, Elizabeth (Journalist) Was Shakespeare a woman?
|