| Description |
xxi, 272 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Note |
"A Mariner original"--T.p. verso. |
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"ISSN 0888-3742"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Christopher Hitchens -- The murder of Leo Tolstoy / Elif Batuman -- The bad lion / Toni Bentley -- The dead book / Jane Churchon -- Irreconcilable dissonance / Brian Doyle -- The elegant eyeball / John Gamel -- How Einstein divided America's Jews / Walter Isaacson -- Lunching on Olympus / Steven L. Isenberg -- Me, myself, and I / Jane Kramer -- When writers speak / Arthur Krystal -- A rake's progress / Matt Labash -- Brooklyn the unknowable / Phillip Lopate -- On John Updike / Ian McEwan -- My genome, my self / Steven Pinker -- Gyromancy / Ron Rindo -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith -- Rediscovering Central Asia / S. Frederick Starr -- Gettysburg regress / John H. Summers -- Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman -- Daredevil / Garry Wills -- A fine rage / James Wood. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Hitchens, Christopher, editor, author of introduction, etc.
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Atwan, Robert, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780547394510 |
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0547394519 |
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