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10 best books like The Best American Essays 2004 (Louis Menand): Yours Ever: People and Their Letters, My Brain is Hanging Upside Down, The Best American Essays 2006, The Best American Mystery Stories 2005, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, The Best American Essays 2003, The Best American Essays 2008, The Best American Essays 2011, The Best American Essays 2005, The Best American Comics 2009

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
AuthorThomas Mallon
ISBN0679444262
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.

Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable...
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down
AuthorDavid Heatley
One of the most promising young talents in cartooning makes his debut with a dazzling collection—part freakish dreamlife, part quirk-o-rama autobiography, all genius.

Long a fixture in comics anthologies, David Heatley's deceptively crude, wickedly observant drawings have begun...
The Best American Essays 2006
AuthorLauren Slater
ISBN0618705295
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0618517456
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0618246983
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Best American Essays 2003
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0618341617
Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth...
The Best American Essays 2008
AuthorAdam Gopnik
ISBN0618983228
Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year’s edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have “text and inner text, personal...
The Best American Essays 2011
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
ISBN0547479778
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The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special...
The Best American Essays 2005
AuthorSusan Orlean
ISBN0618357130
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
The Best American Comics 2009
AuthorCharles Burns
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
The Best American Travel Writing 2010
AuthorBill Buford
ISBN0547333358
Hit and miss... I definitely enjoyed some stories quite a bit, but skimmed or skipped others. I'm always afraid reading travel books is going to further stoke my wanderlust (more out of control than it already is, anyway) but amusingly it often has the opposite effect, especially when I read stories...
The Book of Leviathan
AuthorPeter Blegvad
ISBN1585670987
Welcome to a new strange world. In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet...
The Best American Essays 2009
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0618982728
Addendum to original review, explaining why I have downgraded this to two stars - (italicized material below):

My second criticism is probably more a reflection of my personal taste, and may not be shared by other readers. But I felt that Mary Oliver's background as a poet shone through, with...
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN0618570489
The Wall Street Journal says, "After a decade in which reading was considered about as hip as the Bee Gees, the under-25 set is now buying books for leisure reading at three times the rate of the overall market."

The Best American Non-Required Reading is a selection for young people of the best...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN0618178929
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
AuthorPaul Theroux
ISBN0618118780
Already a best-selling addition to the series, this year’s Best American Travel Writing is a far-flung collection chosen by travel writer extraordinaire Paul Theroux, who has selected pieces about “the spell in the wilderness, the letter home from foreign parts, the dangerous adventure, the...
The Best American Essays 2007
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
ISBN0618709274
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,...
Shade, the Changing Man, Volume 2: Edge of Vision
AuthorPeter Milligan
Shade and Kathy find themselves drawn to Madness outbreaks, first in San Francisco then in New York. Shade and Kathy are separated and Kathy meets Lenny, a young artist. Shade, on the other hand, meets someone he never thought he'd see again...

Yeah, this is one of those times where I'm not exactly...
Shivering Sands: Seven Years of Stories, Drinking and the World
AuthorWarren Ellis
SHIVERING SANDS is a bit of an experiment: part Greatest Hits collection, part late-night ramblings, all crackling text transmissions sent down the wire from anywhere Warren Ellis had access to a computer and something to say. These essays, stories, music reviews, the occasional chemically-induced...
The Information Design Handbook
AuthorJennifer Visocky O'Grady
The best information design often goes "unnoticed" by the viewer because it conveys information so quickly and effectively. The Information Design Handbook celebrates graphics that are exemplars of communication and esthetics, and reveals the thought processes and design skills behind them....
The Best American Essays 2010
AuthorRobert Atwan
ISBN0547394519
The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is “reliable and yet still surprising—the best of the best” (Kirkus Reviews). .
Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers.
AuthorZack Arias
ISBN0133434621
For years, editorial and commercial photographer Zack Arias has been a respected and trusted voice in the photography industry. Known for his photography, his teaching, and his ability to connect with photographers, Zack has long had an "open door" approach to discussing his career-the ups and the...
Art Direction Explained, At Last!
AuthorSteven Heller
ISBN1856696243
What do art directors do, exactly? No one, until now, has offered a satisfying answer to this vexing question. Here, finally, two leading experts on the subject offer a highly informative and entertaining insight into what art direction is, and how to practise it.

Art Direction Explained,...
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