The best American essays 2012
The best American essays 2012
edited and with an introduction by David Brooks ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
- xxiv, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
- Best American series. .
"A Mariner original."
The foul reign of "self-reliance" / The crazy state of psychiatry / You owe me / Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / A beauty / The good short life / Vanishing act / Paul Collins -- Insatiable / Who are you and what are you doing here? / Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein -- Farther away / Creation myth / Dr. Don / Objects of affection / Getting schooled / My father/my husband / The accidental universe / The bitch is back / How doctors die / Other women / Humanism / Killing my body to save my mind / Outlaw / Paper tigers / Benjamin Anastas -- Marcia Angell -- Miah Arnold -- Geoffrey Bent -- Robert Boyers -- Dudley Clendinen -- Mark Doty -- Mark Edmundson -- Jonathan Franzen -- Malcolm Gladwell -- Peter Hessler -- Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough -- Garret Keizer -- David J. Lawless -- Alan Lightman -- Sandra Tsing Loh -- Ken Murray -- Francine Prose -- Richard Sennett -- Lauren Slater -- Jose Antonio Vargas -- Wesley Yang.
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.
9780547840093
American essays--21st century.
PN 6142 / .B464 2012
"A Mariner original."
The foul reign of "self-reliance" / The crazy state of psychiatry / You owe me / Edward Hopper and the geometry of despair / A beauty / The good short life / Vanishing act / Paul Collins -- Insatiable / Who are you and what are you doing here? / Duh, bor-ing / Joseph Epstein -- Farther away / Creation myth / Dr. Don / Objects of affection / Getting schooled / My father/my husband / The accidental universe / The bitch is back / How doctors die / Other women / Humanism / Killing my body to save my mind / Outlaw / Paper tigers / Benjamin Anastas -- Marcia Angell -- Miah Arnold -- Geoffrey Bent -- Robert Boyers -- Dudley Clendinen -- Mark Doty -- Mark Edmundson -- Jonathan Franzen -- Malcolm Gladwell -- Peter Hessler -- Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough -- Garret Keizer -- David J. Lawless -- Alan Lightman -- Sandra Tsing Loh -- Ken Murray -- Francine Prose -- Richard Sennett -- Lauren Slater -- Jose Antonio Vargas -- Wesley Yang.
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.
9780547840093
American essays--21st century.
PN 6142 / .B464 2012
