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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. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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[A] thoughtful entry in the long-running series...The works in this year's collection are a mix of the disconcerting, the probing, and the self-reflective, and well-suited to challenging times. -- Publishers Weekly

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ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. ALEXANDER CHEE is the best-selling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, T Magazine, Slate, Vulture, among others. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide. ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide. William DeMeritt is a talented actor and audiobook narrator who has a wealth of experience on stage and in the booth. A graduate of both Marymount Manhattan College and the Yale School of Drama, he made his feature film debut in HBO's Emmy-winning The Normal Heart, based on the Tony Award-winning play by Larry Kramer. He was born and raised in New York City. Tyla Collier is a trained actor, singer, dancer, and audiobook narrator who received her bachelor's degree in musical theater from The Boston Conservatory. She has performed professionally off-Broadway as well as in numerous regional theaters around the country. She currently resides in New York City. For more information, visit tylacollier.com. Rainy Fields is a registered member of the Muskogee Creek Nation and is of Cherokee descent. After a back injury during her first year of college, Rainy took an acting class in an effort to boost her GPA and fell in love with the craft, eventually earning her BA in theater. Rainy now lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of an all-Native improv troupe. Rainy is also an ensemble member of Native Voices at the Autry, and she co-hosts the podcast Hollywood Ndnz, which explores what it's like to be Native and in the entertainment industry. Eunice Wong is a Juilliard-trained, award-winning actor and narrator. She's recorded for Penguin Random House, Audible, Tantor, Harper, and others, and performed professionally across the US. Director Paul Ruben calls her an exceptionally talented, intuitive actress & storyteller [who] connects the listener to every emotional nuance in the author's words. Born in Toronto, with parents from Hong Kong, she's audiobook-fluent in Cantonese, French, and Mandarin. She's always open to books that aren't ethnically specific. (Her Canadian accent was poonded oot of her at Juilliard, but still available on request.) She's taught poetry in a men's super-max prison, lived in Kyrgyzstan with nomads, and swum with stingrays. Eunice lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her family and two lazy greyhounds. Larry Schwarz is a creator and producer of live action and animated series for kids, teens, and families. He's best known for Nickelodeon's anime comedy Kappa Mikey and Speed Racer: The Next Generation and the live action series Thumb Wrestling Federation for Cartoon Network; Team Toon, a Netflix Original; and Alien Dawn for Nickelodeon. In addition to The Jules Verne Prophecy, he has co-authored Romeo, Juliet & Jim with Iva-Marie Palmer. He lives in New York City. Iva-Marie Palmer is the author of the middle grade series Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook, and the young adult novels The End of the World As We Know It; Romeo, Juliet & Jim (with Larry Schwarz); The Summers; and Gimme Everything You Got. She lives in Burbank, California, with her husband and two sons.

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