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"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
- Woody Allen
(1935 - )
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 Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN: 0618035788
Release Date: Jan 10, 2000
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year's finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent genre unlike any other. This year's pieces embrace stylistic freedom and strong opinions and afford the reader a fascinating view of the writer's mind as it struggles with truth, memory, and experience. Featured writers include Jamaica Kincaid, Edward Hoagland, Cynthia Ozick, Mary Gordon, Edwidge Danticat, and others.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
An eclectic anthology of non-fiction chosen by novelist Alan Lightman who says in the introduction that he looks for essays that show "a mind at work, imagining, spinning, struggling to understand." Featured writers include Jamaica Kincaid, Edward Hoagland, and Cynthia Ozick
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Foreword by Robert Atwan ix
Introduction by Alan Lightman xiii
andré aciman. The Last Time I Saw Paris 1
from Commentary
wendell berry. In Distrust of Movements 13
from Orion
ian buruma. The Joys and Perils of Victimhood 20
from The New York Review of Books
fred d'aguiar. A Son in Shadow 32
from Harper's Magazine
edwidge danticat. Westbury Court 47
from New Letters
william h. gass. In Defense of the Book 52
from Harper's Magazine
mary gordon. Rome: The Visible City 64
from Salmagundi
edward hoagland. Earth's Eye 80
from Sierra
jamaica kincaid. Those Words That Echo . . . Echo . . . Echo
Through Life 86
from The New York Times
geeta kothari. If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? 91
from The Kenyon Review
richard mccann. The Resurrectionist 101
from Tin House
cynthia ozick. The Synthetic Sublime 110
from The New Yorker
scott russell sanders. The Force of Spirit 122
from Orion
lynne sharon schwartz. At a Certain Age 134
from The Threepenny Review
peter singer. The Singer Solution to World Poverty 140
from The New York Times Magazine
floyd skloot. Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain 147
from Creative Nonfiction
mark slouka. Listening for Silence 160
from Harper's Magazine
cheryl strayed. Heroin/e 169
from DoubleTake
andrew sullivan. What's So Bad About Hate? 182
from The New York Times Magazine
steven weinberg. A Designer Universe? 201
from The New York Review of Books
terry tempest williams. A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness 211
from The Nation
Biographical Notes 221
Notable Essays of 1999 226
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