Apr 24, 2017
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April showers bring May flowers! It has been quite rainy here for the past several days, and I'm so enjoying it! What better time to curl up and read?
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The Best American Essays, 2007, ed. David Foster Wallace (F, 20s, standing in cab line at LaGuardia)
I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what I suspect are more common-those sudden flashes of anxious confusion and bewilderment.
Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays
"We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious — the people, events, and things of the day — to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color."
— Annie Dillard, "For the Time Being," The Best American Essays 1999 (edited by Edward Hoagland and Robert Atwan)
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"The Best American Essays 2012," Edited by Robert Atwan & David Brooks Borrow I Read
The 10 best American essays since 1950
An interesting list in Publishers Weekly of the ten finest American essays since 1950, selected by Robert Atwan, the founder of the Best American Essays series. There are links on the full article to readable versions of several of the essays:
James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son"
Normal Mailer, "The White Negro"
Susan Sontag, "Notes on 'Camp'"
John McPhee, "The Search for Marvin Gardens"
Joan Didion, "The White Album"
Annie Dillard, "Total Eclipse"
Philip Lopgate, "Against Joie de Vivre"
Edward Hoagland, "Heaven and Nature"
Jo Ann Beard, "The Fourth State of Matter"
David Foster Wallace, "Consider The Lobster"
Hey, one can read both James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" and Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" online!
http://english.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/baldwin-native-son.original.pdf
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/sontag-notesoncamp-1964.html
Discovered this thanks to this link--
The Ten Best American Essays Since 1950, According to Robert Atwan
You'll definitely want to skip Norman Mailer's "The White Negro", a convoluted piece I had the misfortune of reading when quite young, about how cool white people get when they listen to jazz.