The Best American Essays 2001This years Best American Essays is edited by the best selling, award winning writer Kathleen Norris, whose books include Dakota andThe Virgin of Bennington. The writers in this volume invite us into hidden places: a surgical pathologists laboratory, the boxing gym where a college professor and his student learn unexpected lessons about discipline, pain, and growing to adulthood. There are many discoveries to be made here, and I gladly invite the

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But now a typical day in the life of a diabetic might start with a smoked salmon-and-dill omelet

he found himself in a Himalayan ashram wondering whether he had stumbled into a cult

What does it take to reclaim your own story when the world has already fallen for your father’s

Dictionary is a witty and acute guide for any armchair traveler's journey into the landscape of the imagination

family and friendship as well as addressing the wider political aspects of his time at Lambeth

Roger Kahn weaves the first in-depth account of the legendary season of '78 and reaffirms his standing as our nation's master storyteller of baseball

Except as Frieda knows all too well

how we communicate

Micah can’t resist

Marlowe alumni including Roy Dotrice

an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold