The best American essays, 1994 / 
edited and with an introduction by Tracy Kidder ; Robert Atwan, series editor. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1994. 
 - xiv, 321 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Survival of the fittest / Nicholson Baker -- Trucking through the AIDS belt / Ted Conover -- Does Homer have legs? / David Denby -- Tracks and ties / Andrew Dubus III -- Out of one's tree / Stanley Elkin -- Skunk dreams / Louise Erdrich -- The Frankest interview yet / Ian Frazier -- The last shot / Darcy Frey -- Death in Venice / Adam Gopnik -- Cordelia's dilemma / Stephen Jay Gould -- Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy -- Can an ape tell a joke? / Vicki Hearne -- Alien Soil / Jamaica Kincaid -- Escape from Moscow / Mark Kramer -- The turn / William Langewiesche -- Ivy Day in the empty room / James A. McPherson -- Lots / S. Oso -- Rushdie in the Louvre / Cynthia Ozick -- Striptease / Lauren Slater -- Chatwin revisited / Paul Theroux -- The disposable rocket / John Updike. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395692539 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American essays--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS688  / .B47 1994