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Bantam
January 2009
On Sale: January 13, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0553385364
EAN: 9780553385366
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Non-Fiction
This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual
anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are
remarkable essays on a variety of subjects informed by—but
not necessarily about—the experience of blackness, as seen
through the eyes of some of our finest writers. From art, entertainment, and science to technology,
sexuality, and current events—including the battle for the
Democratic nomination for the presidency—the essays in this
inaugural anthology offer the compelling perspectives of a
number of well-known, distinguished writers, among them
Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, James McBride, and
Walter Mosley, and a number of other writers who are just
beginning to be heard. Selected from a diverse array of respected publications
such as the New Yorker, the Virginia Quarterly Review,
Slate, and National Geographic, the essays gathered here
are about making history, living everyday life—and
everything in between. In “Fired,” author and professor
Emily Bernard wrestles with the pain of a friendship
inexplicably ended. Kenneth McClane writes hauntingly of
the last days of his parents’ lives in “Driving.”
Journalist Brian Palmer shares “The Last Thoughts of an
Iraq War Embed.” Jamaica Kincaid describes her oddly
charged relationship with that quintessentially British,
Wordsworthian flower in “Dances with Daffodils,” and writer
Hawa Allan depicts the forces of race and rivalry as two
catwalk icons face off in “When Tyra Met Naomi.” A venue in
which African American writers can branch out from
traditionally “black” subjects, Best African American
Essays features a range of gifted voices exploring the many
issues and experiences, joys and trials, that, as human
beings, we all share.
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