The Best American Essays 2019

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.

Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites.

Author: Robert Atwan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781328465801

About the Author
Atwan, Robert: - ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.Solnit, Rebecca: - Writer, historian, and activist REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.