The Best American Essays 2020
Robert Atwan
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The Best American Essays 2020
Robert Atwan
About This Book
A collection of the year's best essays selected byAndrĂŠ Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. "An essay is the child of uncertainty, " AndrĂŠ Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace." The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. From a Black father's confrontation of his son's illness, to a divorcĂŠe'stranscendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuingmoments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace. The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINEâ˘BARBARA EHRENREICHâ˘LESLIE JAMISON JAMAICA KINCAIDâ˘ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICHâ˘A. O. SCOTTâ˘JERALD WALKERâ˘STEPHANIE POWELL WATTSand others
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Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2019
SELECTED BY ROBERT ATWAN
Confetti, The Cincinnati Review, 16/1
Holding Patterns, n+1, #34
Ten Conversations About My Struggle, The Gettysburg Review, 32/1
Trinaâs Voice, Zone 3, 34/2
Whatâs a Good Playlist for Fighting Cancer?Slate, July 11
A Scribe from the Double House of Life, Conjunctions, #72
Diary of a Triage Patient, The Antioch Review, 77/3
Atlas, Hotel Amerika, #17
Five Ways to Eat Termites, The Bare Life Review, #3
Everywhere and Nowhere, The New Yorker, February 18 & 25
Insomnia Begins in the Cradle, Harvard Review, #54
Mirrors, Belmont Story Review, #4
Flame and Fortune, Eclectica, 23/3
Voice Box, The Dalhousie Review, 99/2
To Be Continued, The Point, #20
Little Houses, Ascent, October 13
The House of Myth: On the Architecture of White Supremacy, Oxford American, #104
Nomads, The Sun, January
Sturgeon, Booth, #13
Birth of Cool, Hunger Mountain, #23
Natality: Moon/Sun/Stars, Haydenâs Ferry Review, #64
Fifteen Dogs, Narrative, May 11
A Tomb of Oneâs Own, Ascent, October 13
Jamilla, The Missouri Review, 42/1
About Boredom, Mount Hope, #16
Stereopticon: Twelve Ways of Looking at My Mother, The Yale Review, 107/4
Like a Shipwreck, Fourth Genre, 21/1
Over the Edge & Off the Map, Alpinist, #65
My Daughter and I Discuss God and Puns, Forge, November 11
Losing, Finding, Improvising, Agni, #89
Owosso, Crazyhorse, #96
Spectator Mourning, Hypertext, #4
The Great Silence, The Georgia Review, Fall
Eating the Food of the Dead, The Normal School, 12/1
My Guide to Marriage? A TV Classic, New York Times, June 5
Writing Animals, Kenyon Review, 41/6
Orwellâs Last Neighborhood, The American Scholar, Spring
Harvest Moon, Bellevue Literary Review, #36
Two Hearts, Kenyon Review, 41/4
Caught Out, Upstreet, #15
Salinger: The New One, Raritan, 38/3
Flight Path, Sonora Review, September
Half a Person, The Point, #20
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