The Best American Essays 2023
eBook - ePub

The Best American Essays 2023

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Best American Essays 2023

About this book

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 writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship movements, the twenty-one essays collected here reflect their authors’ unapologetic observations of the world around them. From an inmate struggling to find purpose during his prison sentence to a doctor coping with the unpredictable nature of her patient, to a widow wishing for just a little more time with her late husband, these narratives—and the others featured in this anthology—celebrate the endurance of the human spirit.

The Best American Essays 2023 includes Ciara Alfaro • Jillian Barnet • Sylvie Baumgartel • Eric Borsuk • Chris Dennis • Xujun Eberlein • Sandra Hager Eliason • George Estreich • Merrill Joan Gerber • Debra Gwartney • Edward Hoagland • Laura Kipnis • Phillip Lopate • Celeste Marcus • Sam Meekings • Sigrid Nunez • Kathryn Schulz • Anthony Siegel • Scott Spencer • Angelique Stevens • David Treuer

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. When We Were Boys
  5. Any Kind of Leaving
  6. Fat Man and Little Boy
  7. Bidders of the Din
  8. We Were Hungry
  9. Ms. Daylily
  10. The Rough Ride
  11. Concision: A Sprawl
  12. Revelation at the Food Bank
  13. Siri Tells a Joke
  14. On Aging
  15. Gender: A Melee
  16. An Archaeological Inquest
  17. A Thousand Gentle Smotherings
  18. A Fist of Muscle
  19. Life and Story
  20. Eat Prey Love
  21. Thirteen Ways of Listening to the Rain
  22. Dreamers Awaken
  23. Care Credit
  24. The Americas They Left Me
  25. Contributors’ Notes
  26. Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022
  27. Notable Special Issues of 2022
  28. About the Editors
  29. Guest Editors of the Best American Essays
  30. About Mariner Books
  31. Copyright
  32. About the Publisher