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. .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780547394510 0547394519 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688.2  / .B47 2010