Presents twenty-nine essays, selected as the best of 1998 by editor Phillip Lopate, offering a balance of personal and formal writings on a variety of topics including nature, travel music, and feminism.
American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.
Collects nonfiction writing from 1970 to the early twenty-first century, and features selections from Barbara Kingsolver, David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, David Foster Wallace, and many others.
