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9780544812109 - The Best American Series   The Best American Essays 2016 Kartoniert (TB)
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A true essay is something hazarded not definitive not authoritative something ventured on the basis of the author's personal experience and subjectivity writes guest editor Jonathan Franzen in his introduction. However his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 was in a word risk. Whether the risks involved championing an unpopular opinion the possibility of ruining a professional career or irrevocably offending family for Franzen the writer has to be like the firefighter whose job while everyone else is fleeing the flames is to run straight into them. The Best American Essays 2016 includes ALEXANDER CHEE PAUL CRENSHAW JAQUIRA DÍAZ LAURA KIPNIS AMITAVA KUMAR SEBASTIAN JUNGER JOYCE CAROL OATES OLIVER SACKS THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS and others JONATHAN FRANZEN guest editor is the author of five novels most recently Purity and five works of nonfiction and translation including Farther Away and The Kraus Project. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters the German Akademie der Künste and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ROBERT 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.
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