Summary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by best-selling author Alexander Chee.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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Summary: Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Kushner, Rachel

Summary: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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Russo, Richard

Summary: "In these nine essays, [the author] provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

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Ephron, Nora

Summary: A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest-- and most acute-- writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years.-

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Gay, Ross

Summary: "A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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Oliver, Mary

Summary: A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016

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Bass, Rick

Summary: "For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024

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Shapland, Jenn

Summary: "From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity--thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2009 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010

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Summary: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Jamison, Leslie

Summary: "With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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Contents: The presidential election of 2008 -- Our Michelle -- Reverend Wright revisited -- The United States, past and present -- Personalities -- Profiles -- Race talk -- Sports -- Rita Dove -- African American literature -- Racial identity, enslavement, and the law -- In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: One World, Ballantine Books 2010

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