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The Best American Essays 2022

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.


Authors:

  • Alexander Chee
  • Robert Atwan

Narrators:

  • Ewan Chung
  • William DeMeritt
  • Tyla Collier
  • Rainy Fields
  • Eunice Wong
  • Micky Shiloah

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 12 h 54 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Essays and reportage
  • Essays
  • Essays and reportage
  • Anthologies
  • Nonfiction
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    Alexander Chee

    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.

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    Robert Atwan

    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.

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