{"product_id":"the-best-american-essays-2019-9781328465801","title":"The Best American Essays 2019","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship,\" contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and literary myths that offer cold comfort, the personal and the public collide in \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Essays 2019.\u003c\/em\u003e This searching, necessary collection grapples with what has preoccupied us in the past year--sexual politics, race, violence, invasive technologies--and yet, in reading for the book, Solnit also found \"how discovery can be a deep pleasure.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Essays 2019\u003c\/em\u003e includes Michelle Alexander, Jabari Asim, Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, Jean Guerrero, Elizabeth Kolbert, Terese Marie Mailhot, Jia Tolentino, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtwan, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSolnit, Rebecca:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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 \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; \u003ci\u003eThe Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eThe Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEadweard Muybridge\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTechnological Wild West\u003c\/i\u003e (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\u003ci\u003e Harper's \u003c\/i\u003eand a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504328249618,"sku":"9781328465801","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_69e540b0-f7cb-475e-a249-7ce667aa68c3.jpg?v=1730816796","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-essays-2019-9781328465801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}