Description |
xiv, 370 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Geoffrey C. Ward -- Cather and the academy / Joan Acocella -- Books as furniture / Nicholson Baker -- Midnight in the garden of good and Elvis / Julie Baumgold -- Influenza 1918 / Jane Brox -- The trouble with wilderness / William Cronon -- Hooked / Stanley Crouch -- Understanding Afrocentrism : why blacks dream of a world without whites / Gerald Early -- The art of the nap / Joseph Epstein -- A lesson from Michelangelo / James Fenton -- Take the F / Ian Frazier -- The ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi / Amitav Ghosh -- Wonderland / Adam Gopnik -- The black widow / Gordon Grice -- Brightness visible / Edward Hoagland -- Coming home again / Chang-Rae Lee -- Crabcakes / James Alan McPherson -- They all just went away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Owls / Mary Oliver -- Slouching toward Washington / Darryl Pinckney -- Last call of the wild / Jonathan Raban -- One violent crime / Bruce Shapiro -- A case of the great pox / William Styron -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1995. |
Subject |
American essays.
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Added Author |
Ward, Geoffrey C.
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Atwan, Robert.
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ISBN |
0395717566 (pbk.) ; $12.95 |
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0395717574 |
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