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The Best American Essays 2014 (The Best American Series) Kindle Edition
The acclaimed author of Pulphead collects “21 of the year’s most urgent and at times painfully truthful pieces of nonfiction published in the U.S.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay assumes many two-sided forms, and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial.
Sullivan’s choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist’s confession and the journalist s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate.
The Best American Essays 2014 includes entries by Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, Emily Fox Gordon, James Wood, and others.
In our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay assumes many two-sided forms, and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial.
Sullivan’s choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist’s confession and the journalist s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate.
The Best American Essays 2014 includes entries by Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, Emily Fox Gordon, James Wood, and others.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication dateOctober 7, 2014
- File size2440 KB
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The Best American Series
In our age of “trigger warnings” and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay “assumes many two-sided forms,” and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, “the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial.” His choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist’s confession and the journalist’s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange–like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate.
The Best American Essays 2014 includes Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, James Wood, and others.
[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] John Jeremiah Sullivan, editor, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of the Paris Review. He’s been the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Magazine Awards, a Pushcart Prize, an M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, and a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son and Pulphead: Essays.
Robert Atwan, the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.
In our age of “trigger warnings” and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay “assumes many two-sided forms,” and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, “the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial.” His choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist’s confession and the journalist’s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange–like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate.
The Best American Essays 2014 includes Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, James Wood, and others.
[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] John Jeremiah Sullivan, editor, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of the Paris Review. He’s been the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, two National Magazine Awards, a Pushcart Prize, an M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, and a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son and Pulphead: Essays.
Robert Atwan, the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.
About the Author
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of the Paris Review. He writes for GQ, Harper’s Magazine, and Oxford American and is the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead, a 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.
ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.
ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.
Product details
- ASIN : B00HK3F34I
- Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 7, 2014)
- Publication date : October 7, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 2440 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 333 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #674,449 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #569 in American Literature Anthologies
- #966 in Essays (Kindle Store)
- #1,161 in American Fiction Anthologies
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Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2015
Not as strong as the 2013 edition, but still very readable and, in many cases, very compelling. Essay writing as its best.
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2015
This is one of the best Best American Essays I've read to date. What's in here matters. My favorite is "Burning Man,"which brings the power of the personal essay (or is it memoir?) to a rousing darkly comic pitch. I was pulled along throughout the collection, and felt the tug of longing, the letdown that comes over us when the party's over.
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2014
Great issue, several exceptional essays but overall a bit disappointing.
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015
To think or be stirred by something beyond polarizing, often fear-driven tv news… It is a rare art in a culture that doesn't value the written word, discernment or excavation. Here, John Jeremiah Sullivan has gathered some of the era's best writers/thinkers/cultural voices and culled their work over the past 12 months from publications ranging from THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS to the OXFORD AMERICAN, GQ to THE NEW YORKER, RIVER TEETH to GRANTA.
Zadie Smith, Vivian Gornick, Dave Eggers, Paul West, James Wood, Ariel Levy and Mary Gordon consider phases of life, moments of passage, enmity, the state of our culture. It is not haranguing, nor is it designed to push you in a direction. Rather the anthology suggests how we view our world and possible calibrations for our perceptions, as much as stir our humanity to think about the way we inhabit our lives. Subtle, it tugs at who we are, challenges our inertia and offers memory as the fuel to appreciate where we are and who we want to be on a profound but simple level.
Zadie Smith, Vivian Gornick, Dave Eggers, Paul West, James Wood, Ariel Levy and Mary Gordon consider phases of life, moments of passage, enmity, the state of our culture. It is not haranguing, nor is it designed to push you in a direction. Rather the anthology suggests how we view our world and possible calibrations for our perceptions, as much as stir our humanity to think about the way we inhabit our lives. Subtle, it tugs at who we are, challenges our inertia and offers memory as the fuel to appreciate where we are and who we want to be on a profound but simple level.
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2015
A beautiful book. I especially enjoy essays while traveling. This year I finished this book over Christmas, and loved every minute.
The gathering of the 'best' is always a treat I look forward to.
The gathering of the 'best' is always a treat I look forward to.
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016
Some of the essays inspired me, others I was snoozing. I was grateful to discover Virginia Woolf though.
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014
I did not care for the current collection of essays. Too much weird sex. Just not up to the usual qualilty in this series.
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2015
It was a great read and the stories can be analyzed in a deep fashion.