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Title The best American essays 2017 / edited and with an introduction by Leslie Jamison ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
©2017
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  814 BES    Check Shelves
Description xxvi, 302 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "A Mariner original."
Contents Two shallow graves / Jason Arment -- The weight of James Arthur Baldwin / Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah -- White horse / Eliese Colette Goldbach -- The city that bleeds / Lawrence Jackson -- "We are orphans here" / Rachel Kushner -- What came before the big bang? / Alan Lightman -- Cost of living / Emily Maloney -- If I only had a leg / Greg Marshall -- Working the city / Bernard Farai Matambo -- Sparrow needy / Kenneth A. McClane -- The book of the dead / Catherine Venable Moore -- Last taboo / Wesley Morris -- Indigent disposition / Christopher Notarnicola -- Dispatch from flyover country / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- The reader is the protagonist / Karen Palmer -- H. / Sarah Resnick -- Haywire / Heather Sellers -- Travels in Pornland / Andrea Stuart -- Revenge of the mouthbreathers: a smoker's manifesto / June Thunderstorm -- Snakebit / Alia Volz.
Summary Offers a selection of literary essays from the previous year which were originally published in American periodicals.
Subject American essays -- 21st century.
Essays.
Genre Essays.
Added Author Jamison, Leslie, 1983- editor.
Atwan, Robert, series editor.
Arment, Jason. Two shallow graves.
Ghansah, Rachel Kaadzi, 1981- Weight of James Arthur Baldwin.
Goldbach, Eliese Colette, 1986- White horse.
Jackson, Lawrence Patrick. City that bleeds.
Kushner, Rachel. We are orphans here.
Lightman, Alan P., 1948- What came before the big bang?
Maloney, Emily. Cost of living.
Marshall, Greg (Essayist). If I only had a leg.
Matambo, Bernard Farai. Working the city.
McClane, Kenneth A., 1951- Sparrow needy.
Moore, Catherine Venable. Book of the dead.
Morris, Wesley. Last taboo.
Notarnicola, Christopher, 1988- Indigent disposition.
O'Gieblyn, Meghan, 1982- Dispatch from flyover country.
Palmer, Karen, 1976- Reader is the protagonist.
Resnick, Sarah. H.
Sellers, Heather, 1964- Haywire.
Stuart, Andrea. Travels in Pornland.
Thunderstorm, June. Revenge of the mouthbreathers: a smoker's manifesto.
Volz, Alia, 1977- Snakebit.
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