The Best American Essays 2016

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by Jonathan Franzen


  New Literary History, “Song,” ed. Jahan Ramazani and Herbert F. Tucker, Autumn.

  North Dakota Quarterly, “Slow,” ed. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and William Caraher, vol. 80, no. 2.

  Oregon Humanities, “Safe,” ed. Kathleen Holt, Summer.

  Orion, “Writing and Art from America’s Prisons,” ed. Richard Shelton, January/February.

  Prairie Schooner, “Sports,” guest editor, Natalie Diaz, Winter.

  Room, “Fieldwork,” ed. Tayrn Hubbard, vol. 38, no. 4.

  Salmagundi, “The Best of Salmagundi” (50th anniversary issue), ed. Robert Boyers and Peg Boyers, Winter/Spring.

  The Sewanee Review, “Folded Sunsets: At Home and Abroad,” ed. George Core, Summer.

  Slice, “Desire,” ed. Maria Gagliano, Celia Blue Johnson, and ElizabethBlachman, no. 17.

  The Threepenny Review, “A Symposium on Jokes,” ed. Wendy Lesser, Fall.

  Tin House, “Theft,” ed. Rob Spillman, no. 65.

  Vice, “The Prison Issue,” ed. Ellis Jones, October.

  Water-Stone Review, “All We Cannot Alter,” ed. Mary Francois Rockcastle, no. 18.

  Witness, “Trans/lation,” ed. Maile Chapman, Spring.

  Corrections:

  Apologies to Jaquira Díaz, whose “Ordinary Girls” appears in this volume. Because of a printing mishap, the spelling of her last name was mangled in the list of “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014,” which included her essay “My Mother and Mercy” from the August issue of The Sun.

  The following essays should also have appeared in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014”:

  Alexander Chee, Mr. & Mrs. B, Apology, Winter

  Bettina Drew, The Great Amnesia, Southwest Review, vol. 99, no. 4

  Sonja Livingston, Mock Orange, Water-Stone Review, no. 17

  John S. O’Connor, The Ice House, Under the Sun, July 31

  Ned Stuckey-French, Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing, Assay, Fall

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  About the Editors

  JONATHAN FRANZEN, guest editor, is the author of five novels, most recently Purity, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

  ROBERT ATWAN, the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986, has published on a wide variety of subjects, from American advertising and early photography to ancient divination and Shakespeare. His criticism, essays, humor, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous periodicals nationwide.

 

 

 


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