| Description |
xix, 308 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Justin Kaplan -- Armenian journal / Michael Arlen -- The paradoxes of creativity / Jacques Barzun -- Intoxicated by my illness / Anatole Broyard -- Shouting "fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz -- The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard -- At the Academy Awards / Stanley Elkin -- A few kind words for envy / Joseph Epstein -- The creation myths of Cooperstown / Stephen Jay Gould -- No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman -- The Vicksburg ghost / Sue Hubbell -- The corpse in the mirror : the Warhol wake / Stuart Klawans -- Vital signs / Natalie Rusz -- The fisherwoman's daughter / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Raymond Carver, mentor / Jay McInerney -- To Blacks and Jews : Hab Rachmones / James A. McPherson -- I'm having trouble with my relationship / Leonard Michaels -- Why mow? : the case against lawns / Michael Pollan -- Talking AIDS to death / Randy Shilts -- Portrait of the artist as a lion on stilts / Paul West -- Save the whales, screw the shrimp / Joy Williams -- Stalking the billion-footed beast / Tom Wolfe -- Biographical notes -- Notable essays of 1989. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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| Added Author |
Kaplan, Justin.
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| ISBN |
0899199275 |
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0899199372 paperback |
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