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The Best American Essays 2011 - by Edwidge Danticat & Robert Atwan (Paperback)

The Best American Essays 2011 - by  Edwidge Danticat & Robert Atwan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The editors have compiled a collection of the year's best essays, as published in periodicals.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Best American Series(R) <br>First, Best, and Best-Selling <p/>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. <br><i>The Best American Essays 2011</i> includes <p/>Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens, <br>Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith, <br>Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others <br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The Best American Series(r)<br>First, Best, and Best-Selling <br>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. <br><i>The Best American Essays 2011</i> includes <br>Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens, <br>Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith, <br>Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others<br>EDWIDGE DANTICAT, editor, is the author of several books, including <i>Brother, I m Dying</i>, a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Her most recent book is <i>Create Dangerously</i>, a collection of essays. <br>Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series: <br>THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS<br>THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES<br>THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING<br>THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING<br>THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES<br>THE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING<br>THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING <br>"<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of numerous critically accalimed books, including <i>Breath, Eyes, Memory</i>; <i>Krik? Krak!, </i> a National Book Award finalist, <i>The Farming of Bones</i>, an American Book Award winner; <i>The Dew Breaker</i>, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, and <i>Brother, I'm Dying, </i>winner of an NBCC award in Autobiography. <br>ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of <i>The Best American Essays</i> since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.

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