The Best American Essays

The Best American Essays - Paperback

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The Best American Essays - Paperback

The Best American Essays - Paperback

by Louis Menand , Robert Atwan
$21.95
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Book Overview

by Louis Menand (Author), Robert Atwan (Author)

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
Here you will find another "splendid array of unpredictable and delectable essays" (Booklist), chosen by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louis Menand, another collection with "delights on every page" (Dallas Morning News). The Best American Essays once again earns its place as the liveliest and leading annual of its kind.

Number of Pages: 323
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: October 14, 2004
ISBN9780618357093
Author Louis Menand , Robert Atwan
PublisherMariner Books
GenreComics & graphic novels and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages323
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Louis Menand
LOUIS MENAND is Professor of English at Harvard. His book The Metaphysical Club (2001) won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. He is also the author of American Studies (2002) and Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context 91987; new edition 2004) and the editor of The Future of Academic Freedom (1996). He was contributing editor of The New York Review of Books from 1994 to 2001. Since 2001, he has been a staff writer at The New Yorker.
About Robert Atwan
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.

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