The Best American essays 2007
By: edited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
Contributors: Wallace, David Foster.; Atwan, Robert.
Series: Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780618709274; 9780618709267
Subjects: American essays -- 21st century.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Robert Atwan; title: Introduction: deciderization 2007 - a special report / David Foster Wallace; title: Werner / Jo Ann Beard; title: The freedom to offend / Ian Burma; title: Iraq: the war of the imagination / Mark Danner; title: Fathead's hard times / W.S. Di Piero; title: An orgy of power / George Gessert; title: What the dog saw / Malcolm Gladwell; title: Afternoon of the sex children / Mark Greif; title: Operation Gomorrah / Marione Ingram; title: Loaded / Garret Keizer; title: Petrified / John Lahr; title: Name that tone / Louis Menand; title: Shakers / Danie Orozco; title: Out from Xanadu / Cynthia Ozick; title: Passion flowers in winter / Molly Peacock; title: In the Mosque of Imam Ali / Phillip Robertson; title: Disappointment / Richard Rodriguez; title: Rules of Engagement / Elaine Scarry; title: A carnivore's credo / Roger Scruton; title: What should a billionaire give - and what should you? / Peter Singer; title: Dragon slayers / Jerald Walker; title: Apocalypse now / Edward O. Wilson; title: Contributor's notes; title: Notable essays of 2006