TY - BOOK AU - Ozick,Cynthia AU - Atwan,Robert TI - The best American essays, 1998 SN - 0395860520 AV - PS688 .B47 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - American essays KW - 20th century N1 - The telephone / Anwar F. Accawi -- Shadow cities / Andre Aciman -- How I learned to speak Italian / Helen Barolini -- Graven images / Saul Bellow -- The merely very good / Jeremy Bernstein -- States of reading / Sven Birkerts -- What is realism? / J. M. Coetzee -- Altar boy / Brian Doyle -- Witness / Andre Dubus -- Will you still feed me? / Joseph Epstein -- Someplace in Queens / Ian Frazier -- The test of time / William H. Gass -- Two baths / Elizabeth Graver -- The peaceable kingdom / Edward Hoagland -- In history / Jamaica Kincaid -- Nearing ninety / William Maxwell -- Silk parachute / John McPhee -- Building the house / Mary Oliver -- Orion the hunter / Tim Robinson -- Water babies / Oliver Sacks -- The page turner / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Soldier's Heart / Louis Simpson -- A visit to Camelot / Diana Trilling -- Lost art / John Updike -- Real life / James Wood ER -