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Pros
This year's bae is quite strong. I am hopeful every year awaiting the newest installment. As excellent as they are, however, i advise reading only one or two at a time; reading the book straight through may terminally depress you.
The best american essays 2013 opens to the reader a wide selection of windows on the world. I've written before that i really like the <em</em> series and the essays are probably my most favored in the series.
The essays that strayed has selected are, for the most part, impactful to the reader. Some very humorous essays are here and this time they put in a few more than the usual none. The quality of the final selection results from the selector not being t... Read More
Among my favorites are night by alice munro, sometimes a romantic notion by richard *and confessions of an ex-* by walter kirn. The girls in my town, by angela morales. Highway of lost girls, by vanessa veselka.
Daniels’ “letter from majorca”. What happens in the last half of the essay is so astonishing that i thought baxter was fictionalizing, but as it occurred to me he was telling the truth. I cannot divulge what happens as i don't want to spoil the deligh... Read More
Cons
Most essays mention the theme within the first paragraph and drag it on without diving deeply into the the fundamental of human behavior. There are a couple compelling entries-- 'highway of lost girls,' confessions of an ex-*'-- but most of these entr... Read More
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Quality
It may be true that the quality of these collections is dependent on the editor but strayed has done a mighty fine job filling those shoes
I’d also heard that the quality hinged strongly on the chosen editor
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Had to read this for class and the stories or essays in the book were interesting
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It was a little bent out of shape
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I thought it would be to disjointed and too difficult to form any emotional attachment
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It would detract from the story
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Its actually pretty cool because i was just accepted to a weeklong writers workshop with a woman who is in this book
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Moving pieces by big names to no names
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These are all memoirs and there is not an objective essay in the bunch
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I must have an oldfashioned definition