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Zusatztext "A worthwhile series installment that should not only interest contemporary readers but also hold a place in the historical record."-- Library Journal Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. "Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year-sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies-and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found "how discovery can be a deep pleasure." The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others. Zusammenfassung A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. “Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship,” contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year—sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies—and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found “how discovery can be a deep pleasure.” The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis REBECCA SOLNIT: Introduction RABIH ALAMEDDINE: Comforting Myths MICHELLE ALEXANDER: We Are Not the Resistance HEATHER ALTFELD: Obituary for Dead Languages MARIO ALEJANDRO ARIZA: Come Heat and High Water JABARI ASIM: Getting It Twisted ALEXANDER CHEE: The Autobiography of My Novel CAMILLE T. DUNGY: Is All Writing Environmental Writing? MASHA GESSEN: Stories of a Life JEAN GUERRERO: My Father Says He’s a “Targeted Individual.” Maybe We All Are. LACY M. JOHNSON: On Likability WALTER JOHNSON: Guns in the Family ELIZABETH KOLBERT: How to Write About a Vanishing World J. DREW LANHAM: Forever Gone LILI LOOFBOUROW: Men Are More Afraid Than Ever TERESE MARIE MAILHOT: Silence Breaking Woman DAWN LUNDY MARTIN: When a Person Goes Missing KAI MINOSH PYLE: Autobiography of an Iceheart GARY TAYLOR: Death of an English Major JIA TOLENTINO: The Rage of the Incels DAYNA TORTORICI: In the Maze ...
