TY - BOOK AU - Atwan,Robert AU - Alameddine,Rabih AU - Bego,Elvis AU - Cusk,Rachel AU - Ehrenreich,Barbara AU - Fincke,Gary AU - Huett,Ron AU - Jamison,Leslie AU - Kincaid,Jamaica AU - Koerner,Joseph Leo AU - Marzano-Lesnevich,Alex AU - Peters,Clinton Crockett AU - Rogers,Susan Fox AU - Salesses,Matthew AU - Schjeldahl,Peter AU - Scott,A.O. AU - Shriver,Lionel AU - Sullivan,Mark AU - Sundeen,Mark AU - Townsend,Alison AU - Ulin,David L. AU - Walker,Jerald AU - Watts,Stephanie Powell AU - Weinstein,Philip M. AU - Winkler,Elizabeth TI - The best American essays 2020 T2 - The best American series SN - 9780358359913 PY - 2020/// CY - Boston PB - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - American essays KW - 21st century KW - fast KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - Includes contributors' notes and other notable essays and literary nonfiction of 2019; Includes bibliographical references; How to bartend; Rabih Alameddine --; Ghost museum; Elvis Bego --; Driving as metaphor; Rachel Cusk --; The humanoid stain; Barbara Ehrenreich --; After the three-moon era; Gary Fincke --; Cosmic latte; Ron Huett --; A street full of splendid strangers; Leslie Jamison --; A letter to Robinson Crusoe; Jamaica Kincaid --; Maly Trostinets; Joseph Leo Koerner --; Body language; Alex Marzano-Lesnevich --; A thing about cancer; Clinton Crockett Peters --; The other Leopold; Susan Fox Rogers --; To grieve is to carry another time; Matthew Salesses --; 77 Sunset me; Peter Schjeldahl --; Under the sign of Susan; A.O. Scott --; Semantic drift; Lionel Shriver --; Ode al vento occidentale; Mark Sullivan --; Holiday review; Mark Sundeen --; My pink lake and other digressions; Alison Townsend --; Bed; David L. Ulin --; Breathe; Jerald Walker --; The unfound door; Stephanie Powell Watts --; Soul-error; Philip Weinstein --; Was Shakespeare a woman?; Elizabeth Winkler N2 - Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals ER -