EAN: 9780544812109

THE BEST AMERICAN SERIES THE BEST AMERICAN ES...

A true essay is something hazarded  not definitive  not authoritative  something ventured on
the basis of the author's personal experience and subjectivity  writes guest editor Jonathan
Franzen in his introduction. However  his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays
2016 was  in a word  risk. Whether the risks involved championing an unpopular opinion  the
possibility of ruining a professional career  or irrevocably offending family  for Franzen  the
writer has to be like the firefighter  whose job  while everyone else is fleeing the flames  is
to run straight into them. The Best American Essays 2016 includes ALEXANDER CHEE  PAUL CRENSHAW
JAQUIRA DÍAZ  LAURA KIPNIS  AMITAVA KUMAR  SEBASTIAN JUNGER  JOYCE CAROL OATES  OLIVER SACKS 
THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS and others JONATHAN FRANZEN  guest editor  is the author of five
novels  most recently Purity  and five works of nonfiction and translation  including Farther
Away and The Kraus Project. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters  the
German Akademie der Künste  and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. 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.

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