Here you will find the finest essays ājudiciously selected from countless publicationsā (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harperās to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this yearās edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have ātext and inner text, personal story and larger point, the thing youāre supposed to be paying attention to and some other thing youāre really interested in.ā David Sedarisās quirky, hilarious account of a childhood spent yearning for a home where history was properly respected is also a poignant rumination on surviving the passage of time. In āThe Ecstasy of Influence,ā Jonathan Lethem ponders the intriguing phenomenon of cryptomnesia: a person believes herself to be creating something new but is really recalling similar, previously encountered work. Ariel Levy writes in āThe Lesbian Brideās Handbookā of her efforts to plan a party that accurately reflects her lifestyle (which she notes is ānot black-tie!ā) as she confronts head-on what it means to be married. And Lauren Slater is off to āTripp Lake,ā recounting the one summer she spent at campāa summer of color wars, horseback riding, and the āwild sadnessā that settled in her when she was away from home.
In the end, Gopnik believes that the only real ambition of an essayist is to be a master of our common life. This latest installment of The Best American Essays is full of writing that reveals, in Gopnikās words, āthe breath of things as they are.ā
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