Download or read book The Best American Essays 1990 written by Justin Kaplan and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1989 which were originally published in American periodicals.
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Download or read book The Best American Essays 1992 written by Susan Sontag and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the single most distinguished showcase for essays, The Best American Essays exhibits the finest writing from magazines and journals across the country. This year Susan Sontag has collected an extraordinary range of talent that includes such notables as Joan Didion, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, and Stanley Elkin.
Download or read book The Best American Essays 1991 written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). This book was released on 1991 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1990 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Download or read book The Best American Essays 2000 written by Alan Lightman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 1999, all originally published in American periodicals.
Download or read book The Best American Essays 1988 written by Annie Dillard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). This book was released on 1988 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1987 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Download or read book The Best American Essays 2020 written by Andr Aciman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Download or read book The Best American Essays 2016 written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning author compiles a “thought-provoking volume” of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly). As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 “was whether an author had taken a risk.” The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one’s family. What’s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling’s autism and relationships between students and college professors. The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.
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Download or read book The Best American Essays 1987 written by Gay Talese and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). This book was released on 1987 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1986 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Download or read book Long Black Song written by Houston A. Baker and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledge of this tradition is essential to the understanding of any individual black author or work. To deomonstrate the continuity of this tradition, Baker examines themes that appear in folklore and persist throughout contemporary black literature. "Freedom and Apocalypse," for example, traces the idea that black Americans are a chosen people who will, by some violent means, overthrow the white man's tyranny. The essays culminate in an examination of the life and work of Richard Wright. Baker's treatment of Wright as a black American artist who recorded the black man's shift from an agrarian to an urban setting places Wright and the tradition of black literature and culture in a fresh perspective.
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