| Description |
xiv, 321 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Survival of the fittest / Nicholson Baker -- Trucking through the AIDS belt / Ted Conover -- Does Homer have legs? / David Denby -- Tracks and ties / Andre Dubus III -- Out of one's tree / Stanley Elkin -- Skunk dreams / Louise Erdrich -- The frankest interview yet / Ian Frazier -- The last shot / Darcy Frey -- Death in Venice / Adam Gopnik -- Cordelia's dilemma / Stephen Jay Gould |
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-- Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy -- Can an ape tell a joke? / Vicki Hearne -- Alien soil / Jamaica Kincaid -- Escape from Moscow / Mark Kramer -- The turn / William Langewiesche -- Ivy day in the empty room / James A. McPherson -- Lots / S. Oso -- Rushdie in the Louvre / Cynthia Ozick -- Striptease / Lauren Slater -- Chatwin revisited / Paul Theroux -- The disposable rocket / John |
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Updike. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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| Added Author |
Kidder, Tracy.
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Atwan, Robert.
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| ISBN |
0395692539 paperback |
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9780395692547 |
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