Title:
The best American essays 2017 / edited and with an introduction by Leslie Jamison ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
ISBN:
9780544817333
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 302 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"A Mariner original."
Contents:
Two shallow graves / Jason Armet -- Weight of James Arthur Baldwin / Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah -- White horse / Eliese Colette Goldbach -- City that bleeds / Lawrence Jackson -- "We are ophans here" / Rachel Kushner -- What comes before the big bang? / Alan Lightman -- Cost of living / Emily Maloney -- If I only had a leg / Greg Marshall -- Working the city / Bernard Farai Matambo -- Sparrow needy / Kenneth A. McClane -- Book of the dead / Catherine Venable Moore -- Last taboo / Wesley Morris -- Indigent disposition / Christopher Notarnicola -- Dispatch from flyover country / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Reader is the protagonist / Karen Palmer -- H / Sarah Resnick -- Haywire / Heather Sellers -- Travels in Pornland / Andrea Stuart -- Revenge of the mouthbreathers: a smoker's manifesto / June Thunderstorm -- Snakebit / Alia Volz.
Summary:
Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.
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OCLC Number:
on1004672019
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