The Best American Essays 2014
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The Best American Essays 2014

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The Best American Essays 2014

About this book

The acclaimed author of Pulphead collects "21 of the year's most urgent and at times painfully truthful pieces of nonfiction published in the U.S." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay assumes many two-sided forms, and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial.
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Sullivan's choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist's confession and the journalist s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate.
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The Best American Essays 2014 includes entries by Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, Emily Fox Gordon, James Wood, and others.

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Notable Essays of 2013

SELECTED BY ROBERT ATWAN
RAYMOND ABBOTT
A Warm Spring Rain, Open 24 Hours.
SUE ALLISON
Additional Tenses You Should Know, Apt, no. 3.
MARY MARGARET ALVARADO
Dear Joshua, Wagā€™s Revue, Fall.
AARON APPS
Barbecue Catharsis, Carolina Quarterly, Fall.
CHRIS ARTHUR
Howā€™s the Enemy? Literary Review, vol. 56, no. 1.
RILLA ASKEW
Rhumba, Tin House, Fall (no. 57).
LINDA ATWELL
Three Seconds, Perceptions: A Magazine of the Arts, May.
KAREN BABINE
An Island Triptych, New Hibernia Review, Spring.
NICHOLSON BAKER
Wrong Answer, Harperā€™s Magazine, September.
POE BALLANTINE
The Tyranny of Paradise, The Sun, June.
LINDA BAMBER
The Miracle of My Freedom, Kenyon Review, Spring.
JUDITH BARRINGTON
An Aristocratic Murder, 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, vol. 1, no. 1.
TIM BASCOM
Picturing the Personal Essay: A Visual Guide, Creative Nonfiction, no. 49.
EMILY BASS
Zulu Love Story, Slice, no. 12.
RICK BASS
The Thinness of the Soil, Ecotone, Spring.
CONGER BEASLEY, JR.
Wind Dancers, New Letters, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.
ELIZABETH BENEDICT
My Inheritance, Salmagundi, Winter.
CHARLES BERNSTEIN
Disfiguring Abstraction, Critical Inquiry, Spring.
JEREMY BERNSTEIN
A Song for Molly, American Scholar, Winter.
LEO BERSANI
ā€œI Can Dream, Canā€™t I?ā€ Critical Inquiry, Autumn.
WARNER BERTHOFF
Memories of Okinawa, Sewanee Review, Winter.
ELLIS J. BIDERSON
A Complete Thought, Tampa Review, no. 45/46.
CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO
Phrenology: An Attempt, Haydenā€™s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter.
KATE JARVIK BIRCH
One More Artificial Organ, Indiana Review, Winter.
SVEN BIRKERTS
One Long Sentence, Threepenny Review, Summer.
EULA BISS
Sentimental Medicine, Harperā€™s Magazine, January.
BUZZ BISSINGER
My Gucci Addiction, GQ, April.
LUCIENNE S. BLOCH
The Machine and I, Southwest Review, vol. 98, no. 2.
AMY BOESKY
The Ghost Writes Back, KROnline, January 16.
MARC BOOKMAN
The Confessions of Innocent Men, The Atlantic, August.
MARIANNE BORUCH
Boredom, Yale Review, January.
JAMES BRAZIEL
The Ballad of JD, Southern Humanities Review, Fall.
KEVIN BROCKMEIER
Dead Last Is a Kind of Second Place, Georgia Review, Winter.
CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN
Islands of...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction: The Ill-Defined Plot
  6. TIMOTHY AUBRY: A Matter of Life and Death
  7. WENDY BRENNER: Strange Beads
  8. JOHN H. CULVER: The Final Day in Rome
  9. KRISTIN DOMBEK: Letter from Williamsburg
  10. DAVE EGGERS: The Man at the River
  11. EMILY FOX GORDON: At Sixty-Five
  12. MARY GORDON: On Enmity
  13. VIVIAN GORNICK: Letter from Greenwich Village
  14. LAWRENCE JACKSON: Slickheads
  15. LESLIE JAMISON: The Devilā€™s Bait
  16. ARIEL LEVY: Thanksgiving in Mongolia
  17. YIYUN LI: Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
  18. BARRY LOPEZ: Sliver of Sky
  19. CHRIS OFFUTT: Someone Else
  20. ZADIE SMITH: Joy
  21. ELIZABETH TALLENT: Little X
  22. WELLS TOWER: The Old Man at Burning Man
  23. JERALD WALKER: How to Make a Slave
  24. PAUL WEST: On Being Introduced
  25. JAMES WOOD: Becoming Them
  26. BARON WORMSER: Legend: Willem de Kooning
  27. Contributorsā€™ Notes
  28. Notable Essays of 2013
  29. Read More from The Best American SeriesĀ®
  30. About the Editors
  31. Footnotes