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In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of The Best American Essays 2024 with editor Kim Dana Kupperman and contributors Jerald Walker, Nicole Graev Lipson, and Brock Clarke.
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The Best American Essays 2024
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.
“Imparting some piece of yourself—any part—is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation,” writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both personal and personable, the essayists in this volume use their own vulnerability to guide readers on excursions that unfold on uncomfortable edges. From contemplating the nuances of memory to exploring the complexities of family, romance, gender identity, illness, and death, Morris’s selection of essays presents a roundup of the thinkers who masterfully grapple with the issues of our time.
The Best American Essays 2024 includes TEJU COLE • MICHAEL W. CLUNE • YIYUN LI • JAMES McAULEY • RÉMY NGAMIJE • JENNIFER SENIOR • SALLIE TISDALE • JERALD WALKER • JENISHA WATTS and others
Kim Dana Kupperman is the series editor of The Best American Essays and the author of three books: I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence; The Last of Her: A Forensic Memoir; and the historical novel Six Thousand Miles to Home. She is the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, publisher of the print anthologies You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person and Essaying the Essay, the digital chapbook (Un)Common Sense, and an assortment of pamphlets about the essay.
Jerald Walker’s books include How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, and Magically Black and Other Essays, published in September 2024.
Nicole Graev Lipson is the author of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among other publications.
Brock Clarke is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? and the essay collection I, Grape. He lives in Portland, Maine, and is the A. LeRoy Greason Professor of English and Creative Writing at Bowdoin College.
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Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, United States
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