The best American essays 2014
By: edited and with an introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Contributors: Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975-; Brenner, Wendy; Culver, John H., 1945-; Dombek, Kristin; Eggers, Dave; Gordon, Emily Fox, 1948-; Gordon, Mary, 1949-; Gornick, Vivian; Jackson, Lawrence, 1942-; Jamison, Leslie, 1983-; Levy, Ariel, 1974-; Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-; Offutt, Chris, 1958-; Smith, Zadie; Tallent, Elizabeth, 1954-; Tower, Wells, 1973-; Walker, Jerald; West, Paul, 1930-; Wood, James, 1965-; Wormser, Baron
Series: The best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780544309906
Subjects: American essays
Description: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2013 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: title: A matter of life and death  -- Timothy Aubry; title: Strange beads  -- Wendy Brenner; title: The final day in Rome  -- John H. Culver; title: Letter from Williamsburg  -- Kristin Dombek; title: The man at the river  -- Dave Eggers; title: At sixty-five  -- Emily Fox Gordon; title: On enmity  -- Mary Gordon; title: Letter from Greenwich Village  -- Vivian Gornick; title: Slickheads  -- Lawrence Jackson; title: The devil's bait  -- Leslie Jamison; title: Thanksgiving in Mongolia  -- Ariel Levy; title: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life  -- Yiyun Li; title: Sliver of sky  -- Barry Lopez; title: Someone else  -- Chris Offutt; title: Joy  -- Zadie Smith; title: Little X  -- Elizabeth Tallent; title: The old man at Burning Man  -- Wells Tower; title: How to make a slave  -- Jerald Walker; title: On being introduced  -- Paul West; title: Becoming them  -- James Wood; title: Legend : Willem de Kooning -- Baron Wormser.