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Ariel Levy

The Best American Essays 2015

“22 contributors explore a wide range of experiences” in this “illuminating, invaluable” anthology edited by the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs (Publishers Weekly).
Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. The writers featured in this volume are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances.
Leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger self, losing your sanity to Fitbit, and even saying goodbye to a beloved pair of pants are just some of the experience probed by essays that are unified in the daring of their creation. As Levy notes, Writing around an idea you think is worthwhile—an idea you suspect is an insight—requires real audacity.”
The Best American Essays 2015 includes entries by Hilton Als, Roger Angell, Justin Cronin, Meghan Daum, Anthony Doerr, Margo Jefferson, David Sedaris, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit and others.
340 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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Quotes

  • kinokitohas quoted3 years ago
    It always amused me to hit or elongate the word you in speaking to the cat, as in, “Yooouu would probably like that!” because it was funny—and funny often means disquieting and true—to remind myself that there really was another ego in the room with me, with her own likes and dislikes and idiosyncrasies and exasperatingly wrongheaded notions about whose water is better.
  • kinokitohas quoted3 years ago
    After years of lying to get the “child price” during my early teens, I delight in the symmetry of the subterfuge.
  • Анель Зайкеноваhas quoted5 years ago
    the benign low

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