The best American essays, 1991 /
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938-
New York : Ticknor & Fields,
1991.
Random reflections of a second-rate mind / Woody Allen -- The female body / Margaret Atwood -- The female body / John Updike -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Running the Table / Frank Conroy -- Life with daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant / Gerald Early -- This autumn morning / Gretel Ehrlich -- Wounded chevy at Wounded Knee / Diana Hume George -- Counters and cable cars / Stephen Jay Gould -- New York City: Crash course / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Kubota / Garrett Hongo -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Late victorians / Richard Rodriguez -- Seeking home / Dorien Ross -- Mosaic on walking / Mark Rudman -- The ideal particle and the great unconformity / Reg Saner -- Mother Tongue / Amy Tan -- At the Buffalo Bill Museum--June 1988 / Jane Tompkins -- On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick -- Questions of conquest / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The killing game / Joy Williams.
American essays.