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Edited by The New Yorker's much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's Best American Essays continues the laudable tradition of collecting the finest essays, "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune), ensuring that the 2008 edition is another "kick-ass anthology" (Booklist).
Contributors include Albert Goldbarth, Anthony Lane, Louis Menand, Ander Monson, and others.
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Martin Bo Jessen
reviewed The Best American Essays 2008 on December 29, 2008
The Best American Essays 2008
It is exceedingly difficult to rate an anthology with any more than three stars, because almost inevitably there will be some essays I love and some I despise (or rather, that bore me so to death that I don't even dignify them with a complete read). And when you average out love and despise you get 2.5, and then have to rate it a 3.
Regardless, this is worth a read, as "The Best" series of all types are every year. I particularly enjoyed the essays that leaned more toward the personal and emotional (one in particular by a man IV feeding his HIV positive partner at home was wonderful), rather than the analytical and pseudo-intellectual (really, necklace making as a metaphor for life? I've never read so much about beading and cared so little...and I am a former beader!).
Recommended for those that don't have qualms cherry picking.
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