The Best American Essays 2022
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The Best American Essays 2022
Narrated by:
Ewan Chung, William DeMeritt, Tyla Collier, Rainy Fields, Eunice Wong, Micky Shiloah
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Summary
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.
Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
These selections range from Gary Shteyngart’s account of a medical ordeal to Debra Gwartney’s portrait of an Oregon wildfire and author Barry Lopez.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
- Personal Essays: Elissa Washuta chronicles early sobriety, chronic insomnia, and the search for narrative form in church basements and late-night Seattle diners.
- Creative Nonfiction: Anthony Veasna So reflects on graduate school at Syracuse, artistic ambition, and the consolations of looping Pavement’s B-sides after a close friend’s suicide.
- Personal Stories: Vauhini Vara prompts the GPT-3 artificial intelligence model with memories of her late sister, testing where automated prose fails and where genuine grief begins.
- Raw Honesty: Angelique Stevens recounts reconnecting with her estranged Seneca father at a Trailways bus station and learning the history behind frying ancestral ghost bread.
- Also by This Author: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.
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