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Title The best American essays 2012 / edited and with an introduction by David Brooks ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  814 B46    DUE 04-12-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  814 BEST 2012    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Best American series
Best American series.
Note "A Mariner original."
Contents The foul reign of "self-reliance" / Benjamin Anastas -- The crazy state of psychiatry / Marcia Angell -- You owe me / Miah Arnold -- Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / Geoffrey Bent -- A beauty / Robert Boyers -- The good short life / Dudley Clendinen -- Vanishing act / Paul Collins -- Insatiable / Mark Doty -- Who are you and what are you doing here? / Mark Edmundson -- Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein -- Farther away / Jonathan Franzen -- Creation myth / Malcolm Gladwell -- Dr. Don / Peter Hessler -- Objects of affection / Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough -- Getting schooled / Garret Keizer -- My father/my husband / David J. Lawless -- The accidental universe / Alan Lightman -- The bitch is back / Sandra Tsing Loh -- How doctors die / Ken Murray -- Other women / Francine Prose -- Humanism / Richard Sennett -- Killing my body to save my mind / Lauren Slater -- Outlaw / Jose Antonio Vargas -- Paper tigers / Wesley Yang.
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected - and most popular - of its kind. The Best American Essays 2012 includes: Marcia Angell, Miah Arnold, Mark Doty, Joseph Epstein, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Lauren Slater, Sandra Tsing Loh, Jose Antonio Vargas, and others.-- Provided by publisher
Subject American essays -- 21st century.
Added Author Brooks, David, 1961-
Atwan, Robert.
ISBN 9780547840093
0547840098
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