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The best American essays 2024 / edited and with an introduction by Wesley Morris ; Kim Dana Kupperman, series editor.

Morris, Wesley, 1975- (editor.).

Summary:

Wesley Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and acclaimed New York times critic, selects 20 essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063351554
ISBN: 0063351552
Physical Description: xxii, 357 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-351).

Formatted Contents Note:

Jenisha from Kentucky / Jenisha Watts -- Reframing Vermeer / Teju Cole -- Mere belief / Sallie Tisdale -- The lives of Bryan / Jennifer Sinor -- It's hard out here for a memoirist / Jerald Walker -- Proxemics / Jonathan Gleason -- Woodstove / Brock Clarke -- The anatomy of panic / Michael W. Clune -- If/then / Courtney Miller Santo -- The ones we sent away / Jennifer Senior -- If not now, later / Yiyun Li -- 1978 / Amy Margolis -- As they like it : learning to follow my child's lead / Nicole Graev Lipson -- Trapdoor / Kathleen Alcott -- An upset place / James Whorton Jr. -- Memory's cellar / James McAuley -- Because : an etiology / Richard Prins -- As big as you make it out to be / Austin Woerner -- Love is a washing line / Řmy Ngamije -- Storm damage / Anne Marie Todkill -- Anita Baker introduced us and Patrice Rushen did the rest / Ed Pavlić -- A rewilding / Christienne L. Hinz.