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The contemporary American essay / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays.
- American essays--21st century.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 615 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I Am the Happiness of This World / Hilton Als
- One Summer / Nicholson Baker
- Portrait of the Bagel as a Young Man / Thomas Beller
- Brave Face / Sven Birkerts
- Excerpt from On Immunity / Eula Biss
- Tactless / Mary Cappello
- Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God / Anne Carson
- Home Alone / Terry Castle
- Girl / Alexander Chee
- Black Body / Teju Cole
- Greedy Sleep / Bernard Cooper
- The Doctor Is a Woman / Sloane Crosley
- Loitering / Charles D'Ambrosio
- Matricide / Meghan Daum
- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle
- Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (with Particular Reference to Doughnut Plant Doughnuts) / Geoff Dyer
- C1D-LAX-BOG / Lina Ferreira
- Doing No Harm: Some Thoughts on Reading and Writing in the Age of Umbrage / Lynn Freed
- The Case of the Angry Daughter / Rivka Galchen
- Scat / Ross Gay
- On Revenge / Louise Gliick
- Faculty Wife / Emily Fox Gordon
- Other Peoples Secrets / Patricia Hampl
- The Aquarium / Aleksandar Hemon
- The Terror of Love / Samantha Irby
- The Empathy Exams / Leslie Jamison
- Negroland / Margo Jefferson
- Domestic Gulags / Laura Kipnis
- Ann; Death and the Maiden / David Lazar
- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life / Yiyun Li
- Experience Necessary / Phillip Lopate
- The Invitation / Barry Lopez
- Bodies in Motion and at Rest / Thomas Lynch
- Draft No. 4 / John Mcphee
- Failure: A Meditation, Another Iteration (with Interruptions) / Ander Monson
- Live Through Thatf! / Eileen Myles
- Excerpt from The Argonauts / Maggie Nelson
- Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn
- A Visit to San Quentin / Joyce Carol Oates
- Busted in New York / Darryl Pinckney
- Against "Gunmetal" / Lia Purpura
- Beeper World / Karen Russell
- This Old House / David Sedaris
- Differences: Sex, Separateness & Marriage / Shifra Sharlin
- Information Sickness / David Shields
- Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain / Floyd Skloot
- Cassandra Among the Creeps / Rebecca Solnit
- Eric Garner and Me / Clifford Thompson.
- Contains:
- Als, Hilton. I am the happiness of this world.
- Baker, Nicholson. One summer.
- Beller, Thomas. Portrait of the bagel as a young man.
- Birkerts, Sven. Brave face.
- Biss, Eula. On immunity.
- Cappello, Mary. Tactless.
- Carson, Anne, 1950- Decreation.
- Castle, Terry. Home alone.
- Chee, Alexander. Girl.
- Cole, Teju. Black body.
- ISBN:
- 9780525567325
- 0525567321
- OCLC:
- 1262666664
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