Best American essays 2013
By: edited and with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Series: Best American series; Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780544103887
Subjects: American essays
Description: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Notes: "A Mariner original."
Table of contents: title: Foreward  -- Robert Atwan; title: Introduction  -- Cheryl Strayed; title: Free rent at the tolitalitatian hotel -- from; title: Sun  -- Poe Ballantine; title: Night -- from; title: Granta  -- Alice Munro; title: Sometimes a romantic notion -- from; title: Gettysburg review  -- Richard Schmitt; title: Highway of lost girls -- from; title: GQ  -- Vanessa Veselka; title: Keeper of the flame -- from; title: New England review  -- Matthew Vollmer; title: Breeds of America -- from; title: Harper's magazine  -- William Melvin Kelley; title: My father's women -- from; title: Missouri review  -- Mako Yoshikawa; title: Confessions of an ex-Mormon -- from; title: New republic  -- Walter Kirn; title: I'm jumping off the bridge -- from; title: Salon.com  -- Kevin Sampsell; title: Pigeons -- from; title: Prairie schooner  -- Eileen Pollack; title: Triage -- from; title: River teeth  -- Jon Kerstetter; title: The art of being born -- from; title: Hotel Amerika  -- Marcia Aldrich; title: What happens in hell -- from; title: Ploughshares  -- Charles Baxter; title: The exhibit will be so marked -- from; title: Normal school  -- Ander Monson; title: The girls in my town -- from; title: Southwest review  -- Angela Morales; title: Some notes on attunement -- from; title: New Yorker  -- Zadie Smith; title: His last game -- from; title: Notre Dame magazine  -- Brian Doyle; title: When they let them bleed -- from; title: Hobart  -- Tom Goldberg; title: Field notes on hair -- from; title: South Loop review  -- Vicki Weiqi Yang; title: Letter from Majorca -- from; title: Paris review  -- J.D. Daniels; title: Ghost estates -- from; title: New York times magazine  -- John Jeremiah Sullivan; title: Channel B -- from; title: Rumpus  -- Megan Stielstra; title: A little bit of fun before he died -- from; title: ZYZZYVA  -- Dagoberto Gilb; title: Epilogue: Deadkidistan -- from; title: McSweeney's  -- Michelle Mirsky; title: El Camino Doloroso -- from; title: Paris review  -- David Searcy; title: The book of knowledge -- from; title: River teeth  -- Steven Harvey; title: Contributors' notes --; title: Notable essays of 2012.