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A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.
Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Produktbeschreibung
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.

Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Autorenporträt
ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.
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"New Yorker writer Schulz (Being Wrong) collects essays that skillfully combine journalistic and literary sensibilities in this powerful addition to the annual anthology series... This is a moving retrospective of a singular year." - Publishers Weekly on The Best American Essays 2021

"These essays challenge personal and political assumptions and show us life in all its complexities and contradictions. Which in this American moment, and in every other, matters." - USA Today

"[A] thoughtful entry in the long-running series...The works in this year's collection are a mix of the disconcerting, the probing, and the self-reflective, and well-suited to challenging times." - Publishers Weekly

"New Yorker writer Schulz (Being Wrong) collects essays that skillfully combine journalistic and literary sensibilities in this powerful addition to the annual anthology series... This is a moving retrospective of a singular year." - Publishers Weekly on The Best American Essays 2021

"These essays challenge personal and political assumptions and show us life in all its complexities and contradictions. Which in this American moment, and in every other, matters." - USA Today

"[A] thoughtful entry in the long-running series...The works in this year's collection are a mix of the disconcerting, the probing, and the self-reflective, and well-suited to challenging times." - Publishers Weekly