Edited and with an Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Robert Atwan, Series Editor
IN OUR AGE of "trigger warnings" and jeopardized free expression, The Best American Essays 2014 does not shy away from shocking extremes, ambiguities, or dualities. As guest editor John Jeremiah Sullivan notes, the essay "assumes many two-sided forms," and these diverse pieces capture all the conceptions of what an essay can be: the loose and the strict, "the flourish and the finished, the try and the trial." His choices embrace the high and the low, the memoirist's confession and the journalist's reportage, and all the gray area in between. From a hotel in Mongolia to a Clockwork Orange-like Baltimore, from a Rome emergency room to Burning Man, these diverse pieces surprise and entertain, inform and titillate.
Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Introduction copyright © 2014 by John Sullivan
ISBN 978-0-544-30990-6
The Best American Essays 2014
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