Bibliograph

The best American essays 2016, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen ; Robert Atwan, series editor

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The best American essays 2016, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen ; Robert Atwan, series editor

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The best American essays 2016

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen ; Robert Atwan, series editor

Series statement

The best American series

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Bajadas, Francisco Cantu, Girl, Alexander Chee, Against honeymoons, Charles Comey, Names, Paul Crenshaw, Ordinary girls, Jaquira Diaz, My father and the wine, Irina Dumitrescu, My heart lies between "the fleet" and "all the ships", Ela Harrison, The bonds of battle, Sebastian Junger, Sexual paranoia, Laura Kipnis, Thin places, Jordan Kisner, Pyre, Amitava Kumar, Of human carnage, Richard M. Lange, Bastards, Lee Martin, Family tradition, Lisa Nikolidakis, The lost sister : an elegy, Joyce Carol Oates, Right/left : a triptych, Marsha Pomerantz, Big night, Jill Sisson Quinn, Killing like they do in the movies, Justin Phillip Reed, A general feeling of disorder, Oliver Sacks, In praise of contempt, Katherine E. Standefer, The eleventh commandment, George Steiner, Namesake, Mason Stokes, Black and blue and blond, Thomas Chatterton Williams

Target audience

adult

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