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The Best American Essays 2006

10 best books like The Best American Essays 2006 (Lauren Slater): The Best American Essays of the Century, The Best American Short Stories 1997, The Best American Travel Writing 2009, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, The Best American Essays 2012, The Best American Essays 2003, The Best American Essays 2008, The Best American Essays 2011, The Best American Essays 2004, The Best American Essays 2005

The Best American Essays of the Century
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0618155872
This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important,...
The Best American Short Stories 1997
AuthorAnnie Proulx
ISBN0395798655
The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only annual that offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert...
The Best American Travel Writing 2009
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0618858660
**Heh, 3.5 stars if GoodReads had such a thing**

I tethered with the rating on this one because some of the essays were non-memorable and almost boring, not bothering to uncover the travel experience through narrator experience and setting authenticity.

Yet some were indeed memorable....
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 2012
AuthorRobert Atwan
ISBN0547840098
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

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 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
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

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 2004
AuthorLouis Menand
ISBN0618357092
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 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 Mystery Stories 2006
AuthorScott Turow
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow

Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
AuthorMichael Connelly
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 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 2007
AuthorRichard Preston
ISBN0618722319
"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science is just another way of writing about the human condition."...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
AuthorElizabeth Kolbert
ISBN0547002599
I know 'green' is the new hot thing, but this collection seriously suffered from a huge overemphasis on articles about the environment. I'm happy to read them, but I also want to read about physics and neurology and mathematics and biochemistry and other fields I don't even know about! The articles in...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008
AuthorJerome Groopman
ISBN0618834478
“The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”—Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor

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The Best American Travel Writing 2006
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN0618582150
Tim Cahill writes in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2006, "'Story' is the essence of the travel essay. Stories are the way we organize the chaos in our lives, orchestrate voluminous factual material, and -- if we are very good -- shed some light on the human condition." Here are twenty-six...
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,...
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
AuthorDavid Halberstam
ISBN0395945143
The Barnes & Noble Review: "The front page chronicles man's defeats. The sports page chronicles man's triumphs." So the adage goes, never more true than when surveying 100 years of American history through its coverage of sports. From Bobby Knight to Bobby Fischer, from Secretariat to Sugar Ray,...
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
AuthorPhillip Lopate
ISBN0671042351
Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism. He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared...
The Best American Science Writing 2007
AuthorGina Kolata
ISBN0061345776
Provocative and engaging, this collection brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Featuring the imprimatur of bestselling author and New York Times reporter Gina Kolata, one of the nation's foremost voices in science and medicine, and with contributions from Atul Gawande, Elizabeth...
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