The best American essays 2014 /
edited with an introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2014.
- xxviii, 233 p.; 21 cm.
- Best American series. .
- Best American series. .
A matter of life and death / Timothy Aubry -- Strange beads / Wendy Brenner -- The final day in Rome / John H. Culver -- Letter from Williamsburg / Kristin Dombek -- The man at the river / Dave Eggers -- At sixty-five / Emily Fox Gordon -- On enmity / Mary Gordon -- Letter from Greenwich Village / Vivian Gornick -- Slickheads / Lawrence Jackson -- The devil's bait / Leslie Jamison -- Thanksgiving in Mongolia / Ariel Levy -- Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life / Yiyun Li -- Sliver of sky / Barry Lopez -- Someone else / Chris Offutt -- Joy / Zadie Smith -- Little X / Elizabeth Tallent -- The old man at Burning Man / Wells Tower -- How to make a slave / Jerald Walker -- On being introduced / Paul West -- Becoming them / James Wood -- Legend : Willem de Kooning / Baron Wormser.