The best American essays 2001
By: edited and with an introduction by Kathleen Norris ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Series: The Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780618049318
Subjects: American essays
Description: A collection of twenty-six essays by American authors, chosen by guest editor Kathleen Norris as the best to be published in 2000, including selections by Stephen King, Diane Ackerman, and Reynolds Price.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Robert Atwan; title: Introduction : stories around a fire  -- Kathleen Norris; title: In the memory mines  -- Diane Ackerman; title: How to pray : reverence, stories, and the Rebbe's dream  -- Ben Birnbaum; title: The bone garden of desire  -- Charles Bowden; title: Travels with R.L.S.  -- James Campbell; title: Mail  -- Anne Fadiman; title: The work of mourning  -- Francine du Plessix Gray; title: Vin Laforge  -- Jeffrey Heiman; title: Calliope Times  -- Edward Hoagland; title: India's American imports  -- Adam Hochschild; title: Refugium  -- Barbara Hurd; title: On impact  -- Stephen King; title: Blue machinery of summer  -- Yusef Komunyakaa; title: The midnight tour  -- Marcus Laffey; title: Facing the village  -- Lenore Look; title: Book marks  -- Rebecca McClanahan; title: Trouble in the tribe  -- Daphne Merkin; title: Provincetown  -- David Michaelis; title: Brain-cell memories  -- Spencer Nadler; title: Dust  -- Mary Oliver; title: Dear Harper : a letter to a godchild about God  -- Reynolds Price; title: The fineness of things  -- Tim Robinson; title: Cut time  -- Carlo Rotella; title: Exquisite corpse  -- Ashraf Rushdy; title: The last word  -- Earl Shorris; title: On being breathless  -- Bert O. States; title: Upside down and backward  -- William T. Vollman; title: Biographical Notes --; title: Notable essays of 2000.