The Best American Essays 2019
Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: xxvii, 226 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
"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.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Solnit, Rebecca, editor.
Alameddine, Rabih. Comforting myths.
Alexander, Michelle. We are not the resistance.
Altfeld, Heather. Obituary for dead languages.
Ariza, Mario Alejandro. Come heat and high water.
Asim, Jabari, 1962- Getting it twisted.
Chee, Alexander. Autobiography of my novel.
Dungy, Camille T., 1972- Is all writing environmental writing?
Gessen, Masha. Stories of a life.
Guerrero, Jean. My father says he's a "targeted individual."
Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- On likability.
Solnit, Rebecca, editor.
Alameddine, Rabih. Comforting myths.
Alexander, Michelle. We are not the resistance.
Altfeld, Heather. Obituary for dead languages.
Ariza, Mario Alejandro. Come heat and high water.
Asim, Jabari, 1962- Getting it twisted.
Chee, Alexander. Autobiography of my novel.
Dungy, Camille T., 1972- Is all writing environmental writing?
Gessen, Masha. Stories of a life.
Guerrero, Jean. My father says he's a "targeted individual."
Johnson, Lacy M., 1978- On likability.
ISBN:
9781328465801
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LITERATURE Essays Bes 2019 | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224).