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  • The Best American Essays 2021

    by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2011

    Edited by Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Essays 2019

    Edited by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit."Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2022

    by Robert Atwan, Alexander Chee ...
    Series series Best American
    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. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best American Essays 2023

    by Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series Best American
    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After Montaigne

    Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

    by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church, Brian Doyle, Lisa Ferreira, Vivian Gornick, Wayne Koestenbaum, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, Maggie Nelson, Jose Orduna, Elena Passarello, Kristen Radtke, Amy Scott, Jerald Walker, Marcia Aldrich, Robert Atwan, Mary Cappello, Danielle Cadena Deulen, E. J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Bret Lott, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lina M. Ferreira, Robin Hemley ...
    Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • I'll Tell You Mine

    Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

    by Robert Atwan ...
    The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the past three decades the NWP has produced some of the most influential nonfiction writers in the country ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • River Teeth

    Twenty Years of Creative Nonfiction

    Edited by Joe Mackall, Daniel W. Lehman ...
    Nationally recognized River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction—including essays, memoir, and literary journalism—since 1999. To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Best American Essays 2023

    by Robert Atwan, Vivian Gornick ...
    Narrated by Will Tulin, Marie Hoffman, Elena Rey, Elyse Dinh, Katharine Chin, Pun Pandhu, Ewan Chung, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Best American Essays 2022

    by Robert Atwan, Alexander Chee ...
    Narrated by Ewan Chung, William DeMeritt, Tyla Collier, Rainy Fields, Micky Shiloah, Eunice Wong ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    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.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

    by Carl Zimmer, Jaime Green ...
    Narrated by Katharine Chin, Shahjehan Khan, Nikki Massoud, Jeena Yi, Em Grosland, Johnny Rey Diaz ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.“What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Best American Short Stories 2023

    by Heidi Pitlor, Min Jin Lee ...
    Narrated by Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, Pascale Armand, Korey Jackson, Will Tulin, Katharine Chin, Mirai, Micky Shiloah, Nikki Massoud, Dylan Moore, Thabang Makhubelak, Elyse Dinh, Johnny Rey Diaz, Em Grosland, Elena Rey, Yelena Shmulenson ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    14 hours 59 min

    A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook