The best American essays 2019 / edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Solnit ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781328465801
- ISBN: 1328465802
- Physical Description: xxvii, 226 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Comforting myths / Alameddine, Rabih -- We are not the resistance / Alexander, Michelle -- Obituary for dead languages / Altfeld, Heather -- Come heat and high water / Ariza, Mario Alejandro -- Getting it twisted / Asim, Jabari -- -- Autobiography of my novel / Chee, Alexander -- Is all writing environmental writing? / Dungy, Camille T. -- Stories of a life / Gessen, Masha -- My father says he's a "targeted individual" / Guerrero, Jean -- On likability / Johnson, Lacy M. -- Guns in the family / Johnson, Walter -- How to write about a vanishing world / Kolbert, Elizabeth -- Forever gone / Lanham, J. Drew -- Men are more afraid than ever / Loofbourow, Lili -- Silence breaking woman / Mailhot, Terese Marie -- When a person goes missing / Martin, Dawn Lundy -- Autobiography of an Iceheart / Pyle, Kai Monosh -- Death of an English major / Taylor, Gary -- The rage of the Incels / Tolentino, Jia -- In the maze / Tortorici, Dayna. |
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Subject: | American essays > 21st century. |
Genre: | Essays. Essays. |
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The Best American Essays 2019
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 extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year--sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies--and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found "how discovery can be a deep pleasure." The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.