About this title: Edited by "The New Yorker's" much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's "Best American Essays" includes contributions by such writers as Albert Goldbarth, Anthony Lane, Louis Menand, and Ander Monson.
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Date Published: 2008-10-08
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008-10-08
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2008-10-08
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008-10-08
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"I look forward to this collection of essays every year. I read them over the Thanksgiving weekend. They bring me to my knees. How I learn about the world, besides watching Southpark, is through the Best American Essays series."
"I signed up for Creative Nonfiction, not because I was particularly interested in essay writing, but because it was the only graduate workshop class the university where I work was offering this semester. This book was the first thing we were assigned to read, and it was like being struck by lightening. So THIS is creative nonfiction! So THIS is brilliance! So THIS is beauty, pain, hysterical humor, connections between life and death and everything in between!
After reading these awesome, amazing essays (best of the year, in fact!) I am officially a Huge Fan of creative nonfiction, and feel somewhat prepared to write my own first piece. Highly recommended (seriously - you can't go wrong with anything from the Best American Series!)."
"There were some really amazing pieces in this collection, and some that didn't really reach me.
My favorites were Rich Cohen's mustache essay (possibly the best last line in the book), Atul Gawande's essay about aging, Sam Shaw's piece about the transcendent runners, Lauren Slater's essay about summer camp (what a perceptive eye she casts on her childhood! I would love to have such clarity of hindsight), and Lee Zacharias's vulture essay.
Solid, but not my favorites: Patricia Brieschke and Bernard Cooper both made me want to cry, Ariel Levy's lesbian wedding sounded like a blast, and Hugh Raffles' piece about cricket fighting was fascinating.
Albert Goldbarth's essay was a disappointment, because I'd been really looking forward to it and then I just didn't get it. Maybe that's my own failing."
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