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The best American essays 2012 edited and with an introduction by David Brooks ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

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

Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2011 which were originally published in American periodicals.

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