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The contemporary American essay
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
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814.009 Contemporary
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From the Book
I am the happiness of this world by Hilton Als
One summer by Nicholson Baker
Portrait of the bagel as a young man by Thomas Beller
Brave face by Sven Birkerts
Excerpt from On immunity by Eula Biss
Tactless by Mary Cappello
Decreation : how women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil tell God by Anne Carson
Home alone by Terry Castle
Girl by Alexander Chee
Black body by Teju Cole
Greedy sleep by Bernard Cooper
The doctor is a woman by Sloane Crosley
Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio
Matricide by Meghan Daum
Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle
Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to doughnut plant doughnuts) by Geoff Dyer
CID-LAX-BOG by Lina Ferreira
Doing no harm : some thoughts on reading and writing in the age of umbrage by Lynn Freed
The case of the angry daughter by Rivka Galchen
Scat by Ross Gay
On revenge by Louise Glück
Faculty wife by Emily Fox Gordon
Other people's secrets by Patricia Hampl
The aquarium by Aleksandar Hemon
The terror of love by Samantha Irby
The empathy exams by Leslie Jamison
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
Domestic gulags by Laura Kipnis
Ann; death and the maiden by David Lazar
Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life by Yiyun Li
Experience necessary by Phillip Lopate
The invitation by Barry Lopez
Bodies in motion and at rest by Thomas Lynch
Draft no. 4 by John McPhee
Failure : another meditation, another iteration (with interruptions) by Ander Monson
Live through that?! by Eileen Myles
Excerpt from The argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Homeschool by Meghan O'Gieblyn
A visit to San Quentin by Joyce Carol Oates
Busted in New York by Darryl Pinckney
Against "gunmetal" by Lia Purpura
Beeper world by Karen Russell
This old house by David Sedaris
Differences : sex, separateness & marriage by Shifra Sharlin
Information sickness by David Shields
Gray area : thinking with a damaged brain by Floyd Skloot
Cassandra among the creeps by Rebecca Solnit
Eric Garner and me by Clifford Thompson
We out here by Wesley Yang.
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Als, Hilton
Baker, Nicholson
Beller, Thomas
Birkerts, Sven
Biss, Eula
Baker, Nicholson
Beller, Thomas
Birkerts, Sven
Biss, Eula
Cappello, Mary
Carson, Anne,1950
Castle, Terry
Chee, Alexander
Cole, Teju
Cooper, Bernard,1951
Crosley, Sloane
D'Ambrosio, Charles
Daum, Meghan,1970
Doyle, Brian
Dyer, Geoff
Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Lina Maria
Freed, Lynn
Galchen, Rivka
Gay, Ross,1974
Glück, Louise,1943
Gordon, Emily Fox,1948
Hampl, Patricia,1946
Hemon, Aleksandar,1964
Irby, Samantha
Jamison, Leslie,1983
Jefferson, Margo
Kipnis, Laura
Lazar, David,1957
Li, Yiyun,1972
Lopate, Phillip,1943
Lopate, Phillip,1943- editor
Lopez, Barry Holstun,1945
Lynch, Thomas
McPhee, John,1931
Monson, Ander,1975
Myles, Eileen
Nelson, Maggie,1973
O'Gieblyn, Meghan,1982
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938
Pinckney, Darryl,1953
Purpura, Lia,1964
Russell, Karen,1981
Sedaris, David
Sharlin, Shifra
Shields, David,1956
Skloot, Rebecca,1972
Solnit, Rebecca
Thompson, Clifford
Yang, Wesley
Carson, Anne,1950
Castle, Terry
Chee, Alexander
Cole, Teju
Cooper, Bernard,1951
Crosley, Sloane
D'Ambrosio, Charles
Daum, Meghan,1970
Doyle, Brian
Dyer, Geoff
Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Lina Maria
Freed, Lynn
Galchen, Rivka
Gay, Ross,1974
Glück, Louise,1943
Gordon, Emily Fox,1948
Hampl, Patricia,1946
Hemon, Aleksandar,1964
Irby, Samantha
Jamison, Leslie,1983
Jefferson, Margo
Kipnis, Laura
Lazar, David,1957
Li, Yiyun,1972
Lopate, Phillip,1943
Lopate, Phillip,1943- editor
Lopez, Barry Holstun,1945
Lynch, Thomas
McPhee, John,1931
Monson, Ander,1975
Myles, Eileen
Nelson, Maggie,1973
O'Gieblyn, Meghan,1982
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938
Pinckney, Darryl,1953
Purpura, Lia,1964
Russell, Karen,1981
Sedaris, David
Sharlin, Shifra
Shields, David,1956
Skloot, Rebecca,1972
Solnit, Rebecca
Thompson, Clifford
Yang, Wesley
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9780525567325
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