The Best American Essays 2017

6 best books like The Best American Essays 2017 (Leslie Jamison): To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017, Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution, Best American Poetry 2017, The Next American Essay, The Best American Essays 2018

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

Author	Phillip Lopate
ISBN	1451696329

A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.

Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

Author	Hope Jahren
ISBN	1328715515

Meh. I liked Lab Girl, but her taste is, well, not mine. I expect a science expert to curate a collection that's a little more rigorous and hard to find than Buzzfeed news?

The writing in many of the essays is very blah--Jahren herself is a much better writer than 90% of the articles she selects....

Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution

Author	Victoria Blake
ISBN	1937163083

Before email, before “the web,” before hackers and GPS and sexting, before titanium implants, before Google Goggles, before Siri, and before each and every one of us carried a computer in our pockets, there was cyberpunk, and science fiction was never the same.

Cyberpunk writers—serious,...

Best American Poetry 2017

Author	Natasha Trethewey
ISBN	1501127632

Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).

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The Next American Essay

Author	John D'Agata
ISBN	1555973752

In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, "The Search for Marvin Gardens," D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are...

The Best American Essays 2018

Author	Hilton Als
ISBN	0544817346

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task.

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