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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 guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Essays 2012 includes Marcia Angell, Miah Arnold, Mark Doty, Joseph Epstein, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Lauren Slater, Sandra Tsing Loh, Jose Antonio Vargas, and others… (más)
I gave this book five stars even though I didn't finish a couple of the essays. Even if I didn't like them, they were worthy selections.
My favorite in this year's collection was Mark Doty's "Insatiable," in which he writes of the new-to-me connection between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker, and includes insights from his own life.
Miah Arnold's "You Owe Me" is a heartbreaking account of teaching English and poetry to kids undergoing cancer treatment.
Ken Murray's "How Doctors Die" should be required reading, and reaffirms everything I've been learning in the past few years about the many costs *to the patient* of overtreatment and "doing everything" at end of life.
I pre-order very few books, but I've already ordered the 2013 volume, due out in October. ( )
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 guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Essays 2012 includes Marcia Angell, Miah Arnold, Mark Doty, Joseph Epstein, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Lauren Slater, Sandra Tsing Loh, Jose Antonio Vargas, and others
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My favorite in this year's collection was Mark Doty's "Insatiable," in which he writes of the new-to-me connection between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker, and includes insights from his own life.
Miah Arnold's "You Owe Me" is a heartbreaking account of teaching English and poetry to kids undergoing cancer treatment.
Ken Murray's "How Doctors Die" should be required reading, and reaffirms everything I've been learning in the past few years about the many costs *to the patient* of overtreatment and "doing everything" at end of life.
I pre-order very few books, but I've already ordered the 2013 volume, due out in October. (