The best American essays 2008 / 
edited and with an introduction by Adam Gopnik. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  2008. 
 - xxxiii, 293 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Best American series. .
<br/><br/>Cracking open / Patricia Brieschke -- Becoming Adolf / Rich Cohen -- The constant gardener / Bernard Cooper -- The way we age now / Atul Gwwande -- Everybody?s nickname / Albert Goldbarth -- On necklaces / Emily R. Grosholz -- Candid camera / Anthony Lane -- The ecstasy of influence / Jonathan Lethem -- The lesbian bride?s handbook / Ariel Levy -- Salamanca / Jamal Mahjoub -- Notable quotables / Louis Menand -- Solipsism / Ander Monson -- On celestial music / Rick Moody -- Cricket fighting / Hugh Raffles -- This old house / David Sedaris -- Run like the fire once more / Sam Shaw -- The renegade / Charles Simic -- Tripp Lake / Lauren Slater -- Extreme dinosaurs / John Updike -- Where God is glad / Joe Wenderoth -- Buzzards / Lee Zacharias. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780618983223 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688.2  / .B47 2008