000			01414nam a2200181 4500
020			_a9781328465801
024			_a1080247634
050			_aPS689
082			_a814.608
100	1		_aRebecca Solnit (Editor)
245	1		_aThe Best American Essays 2019
260			_bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
300			_a256 pages
520			_aA collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. "Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in The Best American Essays 2019. This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year--sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies--and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found "how discovery can be a deep pleasure." The Best American Essays 2019 includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.
650			_aWriting
700	1		_aRobert Atwan (Editor)
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