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Title:
The best American essays 2016
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edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Franzen ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Physical Description:
xxi, 327 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780544812109
General Note:
"A Mariner original."
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Contents:
Bajadas / Francisco Cantú -- Girl / Alexander Chee -- Against honeymoons / Charles Comey -- Names / Paul Crenshaw -- Ordinary girls / Jaquira Díaz -- My father and the wine / Irina Dumitrescu -- My heart lies between "the fleet" and "all the ships" / Ela Harrison -- The bonds of battle / Sebastian Junger -- Sexual paranoia / Laura Kipnis -- Thin places / Jordan Kisner -- Pyre / Amitava Kumar -- Of human carnage / Richard M. Lange -- Bastards / Lee Martin -- Family tradition / Lisa Nikolidakis -- The lost sister : an elegy / Joyce Carol Oates -- Right/left : a triptych / Marsha Pomerantz -- Big night / Jill Sisson Quinn -- Killing like they do in the movies / Justin Phillip Reed -- A general feeling of disorder / Oliver Sacks -- In praise of contempt / Katherine E. Standefer -- The eleventh commandment / George Steiner -- Namesake / Mason Stokes -- Black and blue and blond / Thomas Chatterton Williams.
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