The Best American Essays 2024

by Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman

Overview

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris.

Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and acclaimed New York Times critic, selects twenty-two essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780063351585
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384

About the Author

Wesley Morris is a critic-at-large at the New York Times and a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, where he writes about popular culture and hosts the podcast “Still Processing” with J. Wortham. He’s written essays and reviews for Grantland and the Boston Globe, where he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. In 2021, he was awarded a second Pulitzer in criticism for his writing at the Times.

Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of the award-winning essay collection I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence; a memoir, The Last of Her; and a historical novel, Six Thousand Miles to Home. She is the editor of You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person and the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, whose mission is to publish and celebrate the essay, in all its forms.

Editorial Reviews

An eclectic, accomplished collection rich in variety and talent.”   — Library Journal (starred review), for The Best American Essays 2023

“[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, for The Best American Essays 2022

“These essays challenge personal and political assumptions and show us life in all its complexities and contradictions. Which in this American moment, and in every other, matters.”  — USA Today, for The Best American Essays 2022

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