The Best American Essays 2008
Adam Gopnik earned his wings as an essayist with his "Paris Journal" pieces in The New Yorker, which were later collected in Paris to the Moon. He struts his stuff now as an imaginative editor in this installment of Robert Atwan's wonderfully resilient Best American Essays series. The Best...
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Adam Gopnik earned his wings as an essayist with his "Paris Journal" pieces in The New Yorker, which were later collected in Paris to the Moon. He struts his stuff now as an imaginative editor in this installment of Robert Atwan's wonderfully resilient Best American Essays series. The Best American Essays 2008 contains choices prose pieces by Anthony Lane, Louis Menand, Albert Goldbarth, Ander Monson, and many others.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780618983223 (0618983228)
ASIN: 9780618983223
Publish date: 08-10-2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition language: English
I wasn't sure I was even going to read this collection, but Adam Gopnik's introduction sucked me in. Semi-committed, I proceeded to get bowled over by Patricia Brieschke's essay, which was perhaps the saddest thing I've ever read, and then righted again by humor with Richard Cohen's essay about the ...
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