TY - BOOK AU - Kidder,Tracy AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays, 1994 SN - 0395692539 (pbk.) AV - PS688 .B47 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -