The Best American Essays 2007

The Best American Essays 2007
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The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review, confession, reportage, even a dispatch from Iraq. The philosopher Peter Singer makes a case for philanthropy; the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist; the novelist Marilynne Robinson explores what has happened to holiness in contemporary Christianity; the essayist Richard Rodriguez wonders if California has anything left to say to America; and the Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson attempts to find common ground with the evangelical community. In his introduction, David Foster Wallace makes the spirited case that â€œmany of these essays are valuable simply as exhibits of what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets -- whether these involve the 17-kHz ring tones of some kidsâ‚¬ cell phones, the language of movement as parsed by dogs, the near-infinity of ways to experience and describe an earthquake, the existential synecdoche of stagefright, or the revelation that most of what youâ‚¬ve believed and revered turns out to be self-indulgent crap.â‚¬Â
Country USA
Brand Mariner
Manufacturer Mariner Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0618709274
ReleaseDate 2007-10-10
UnitCount 1
UPCs 046442709279
EANs 9780618709274

Country	USA
Brand	Mariner
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0618709274
ReleaseDate	2007-10-10
UnitCount	1
UPCs	046442709279
EANs	9780618709274

The Best American Essays 2007

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