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The Best American Essays 2017 by Leslie Jamison
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American
"They do what the essay form arguably does best: engaging the personal in order to reach larger themes . . . The essay form forces authors to take measure of themselves, and allows the reader to do so as well." --Publishers Weekly The best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundr ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2018 by Hilton Als
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
The Pulitzer-Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" (New York Times) to the task.
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2022 by Robert Atwan
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman; Silvia Killingsworth
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Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman. "In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medici ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Nonrequired Reading (Paperback)
An eclectic volume introduced by David Sedaris and compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, who don't leave a stone unturned in their search for nonrequired gems. Cover art by art by Maurice Sendak.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 by Daniel Handler
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American
"Lively, eclectic and surprising." -- "Minneapolis Star Tribune"Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series "A Series of Unfortunate Events, " takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs to ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 by Adam Johnson
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American
Full of delights . . . A joy to read. " The Stranger" Guest editor Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Orphan Master s Son," works with a group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to select "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015." The BANR Committee gathers weekly i ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 by Sarah Vowell
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American
"A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." --USA Today Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the stude ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 by Sheila Heti (Editor); 826 National (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year's anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gem ...Show more
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 by Edan Lepucki (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to p ...Show more