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Title	:	The Best American Essays 2016
Author	:	Mariner Books
Rating	:	4.89 (588 Votes)
Asin	:	0544812107
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	352 Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-07-24
Language	:	English

"Risky Business" according to A. Menocal. So far I've just read the introduction. Spoiler: Franzen was looking for essays in which the author takes a risk.

However, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 was, in a word, risk. Whether the risks involved championing an unpopular opinion, the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably offending family, for Franzen, “the writer has to be like the firefighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames, is to run straight into them.”  The Best American Essays 2016 includes ALEXANDER CHEE, PAUL CRENSHAW, JAQUIRA DÍAZ, LAURA KIPNIS, AMITAVA KUMAR, SEBASTIAN JUNGER, JOYCE CAROL OATES, OLIVER SACKS, THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMSand others. From the Back CoverThe Best American Series®   A true essay is “something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author’s personal experience and subjectivity,” writes guest editor Jonathan Franzen in his introduction

He brings his “elegance, acumen, and daring as an essayist” (New York Times) to the collection. . “Offers illuminating, invaluable glimpses into lives that might otherwise remain outside the reader’s ken” —Publishers Weekly The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites

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