The best American essays 2010 /
The best American essays 2010 /
edited with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens ; Robert Atwan.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2010.
- 272 p.; 21 cm.
- Best American series. .
- Best American series. .
Introduction / Christopher Hitchens -- The murder of Leo Tolstoy / Elif Batuman -- The bad lion / Toni Bentley -- The dead book / Jane Churchon -- Irreconcilable dissonance / Brian Doyle -- The elegant eyeball / John Gamel -- How Einstein divided America's Jews / Walter Isaacson -- Lunching on Olympus / Steven L. Isenberg -- Me, myself, and I / Jane Kramer -- When writers speak / Arthur Krystal -- A rake's progress / Matt Labash -- Brooklyn the unknowable / Phillip Lopate -- On John Updike / Ian McEwan -- My genome, my self / Steven Pinker -- Gyromancy / Ron Rindo -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith -- Rediscovering Central Asia / S. Frederick Starr -- Gettysburg regress / John H. Summers -- Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman -- Daredevil / Garry Wills -- A fine rage / James Wood.
9780547394510 0547394519
American essays--21st century.
PS688.2 / .B47 2010
Introduction / Christopher Hitchens -- The murder of Leo Tolstoy / Elif Batuman -- The bad lion / Toni Bentley -- The dead book / Jane Churchon -- Irreconcilable dissonance / Brian Doyle -- The elegant eyeball / John Gamel -- How Einstein divided America's Jews / Walter Isaacson -- Lunching on Olympus / Steven L. Isenberg -- Me, myself, and I / Jane Kramer -- When writers speak / Arthur Krystal -- A rake's progress / Matt Labash -- Brooklyn the unknowable / Phillip Lopate -- On John Updike / Ian McEwan -- My genome, my self / Steven Pinker -- Gyromancy / Ron Rindo -- Guy walks into a bar car / David Sedaris -- Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith -- Rediscovering Central Asia / S. Frederick Starr -- Gettysburg regress / John H. Summers -- Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman -- Daredevil / Garry Wills -- A fine rage / James Wood.
9780547394510 0547394519
American essays--21st century.
PS688.2 / .B47 2010