Best American essays
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The best American essays, 1986
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The best American essays, 1987
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The best American essays, 1988
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The best American essays, 1989
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The best American essays, 1990
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The best American essays, 1991
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The best American essays, 1992
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The best American essays, 1993
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The best American essays, 1994
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The best American essays, 1995
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The best American essays, 1996
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The best American essays, 1997
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The best American essays, 1998
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The best American essays, 1999
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The best American essays, 2001
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The best American essays, 2008
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The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.
In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form-a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we insert our 'I' (our eye) to search deeper into someone,...
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Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today's most acclaimed writers.
As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, "the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again." The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the acclaimed anthology series, Strayed has gathered twenty-six...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2016.
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English
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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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The best American essays 2019
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The best American essays 2020
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