The Best American Essays 2024: An Engaging Essay Collection with Award-Winning Voices, Perfect for Fall 2024

Morris, Wesley

ISBN 10: 0063351552 / ISBN 13: 9780063351554

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2024

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A landmark nonfiction anthology, this collection of the year’s best essays is selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.

“Imparting some piece of yourself—any part—is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation,” writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both personal and personable, the essayists in this volume use their own vulnerability to guide readers on excursions that unfold on uncomfortable edges. From contemplating the nuances of memory to exploring the complexities of family, romance, gender identity, illness, and death, Morris’s selection of powerful personal essays and cultural criticism presents a roundup of the thinkers who masterfully grapple with the issues of our time.

The Best American Essays 2024 includes TEJU COLE • MICHAEL W. CLUNE • YIYUN LI • JAMES McAULEY • RÉMY NGAMIJE • JENNIFER SENIOR • SALLIE TISDALE • JERALD WALKER • JENISHA WATTS and others

This year’s volume offers a masterclass in the modern essay:

• Fearless Memoir: Follow Jenisha Watts from a Kentucky crack house to Maya Angelou’s living room in a stunning narrative of resilience and identity.
• Sharp Cultural Commentary: Join Teju Cole in a private, after-hours tour of the Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition to explore art, history, and complicity.
• Unflinching Looks at Family: Uncover a painful family secret with Jennifer Senior as she investigates the life of an aunt who was institutionalized and erased from memory.
• Profound Meditations on Memory: Question the very nature of truth as Sallie Tisdale interrogates the slipperiness of autobiographical memory itself.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Wesley Morris is a critic-at-large at the New York Times and a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, where he writes about popular culture and hosts the podcast “Still Processing” with J. Wortham. He’s written essays and reviews for Grantland and the Boston Globe, where he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. In 2021, he was awarded a second Pulitzer in criticism for his writing at the Times.

Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of the award-winning essay collection I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence; a memoir, The Last of Her; and a historical novel, Six Thousand Miles to Home. She is the editor of You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person and the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, whose mission is to publish and celebrate the essay, in all its forms.

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Titel: The Best American Essays 2024: An Engaging ...
Verlag: Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: Softcover
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