{"product_id":"the-best-american-essays-2014-paperback","title":"The Best American Essays 2014 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Atwan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays 2014\u003c\/i\u003e is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection \u003ci\u003ePulphead\u003c\/i\u003e. The\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e placed Sullivan \"among the best young nonfiction writers in English\" and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e heralded \u003ci\u003ePulphead \u003c\/i\u003eas \"the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since Wallace's \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Best American Series\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn our age of trigger warnings and jeopardized free expression, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays 2014\u003c\/i\u003e does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay assumes many two-sided forms, and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial. His choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist s confession and the journalist s reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a \u003ci\u003eClockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays 2014\u003c\/i\u003e includes Kristin Dombek, Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Ariel Levy, Yiyun Li, Barry Lopez, Zadie Smith, Wells Tower, James Wood, and others. \u003cbr\u003e[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] John Jeremiah Sullivan, editor, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of the Paris Review. He s been the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, two National Magazine Awards, a Pushcart Prize, an M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, and a fellowship at the New York Public Library s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter s Son and Pulphead: Essays. \u003cbr\u003eRobert Atwan, the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761838293280,"sku":"9780544309906","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6884b050e95a0e9e6833c5af9d2acc00.webp?v=1780214107","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-best-american-essays-2014-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}