The next American essay
By: edited by John D'Agata.
Contributors: D'Agata, John, 1974-
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Saint Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: American essays -- 20th century.; American essays -- 21st century.
Description: A collection of nonfiction essays on such topics as culture, myth, history, romance, and sex includes contributions by such authors as Guy Davenport, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Susan Sontag. In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, the Search for Marvin Gardens, D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are unrestrained, elusive, explosive, mysterious, a personal lingual playground. They encompass and illuminate culture, myth, history, romance, and sex. Each essay is a world of its own, a world so distinctive it resists definition.