2006 Best American Essays

Laurie Abraham

Edited by Lauren Slater

Elle, The Sun, The American Scholar, Manoa, Creative Nonfiction, The Weekly Standard, The Sewanee Review (2), The New Yorker (3), Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, Southwest Review, Black Clock, The New York Times Magazine, The Literary Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, Atlantic Monthly

Laurie Abraham. "Kinsey and Me" from Elle
Poe Ballantine. "501 Minutes to Christ" from The Sun
Emily Bernard. "Teaching the N-Word" from The American Scholar
Ken Chen. "City Out of Breath" from MÁnoa
Toi Derricotte. "Beginning Dialogues" from Creative Nonfiction

Joseph Epstein. The Culture of Celebrity from The Weekly Standard
Eugene Goodheart. Whistling in the Dark from The Sewanee Review
Adam Gopnik. Death of a Fish from The New Yorker
Kim Dana Kupperman. Relief from Hotel Amerika
Michele Morano. Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood from Crab Orchard Review
Susan Orlean. Lost Dog from The New Yorker
Sam Pickering. George from Southwest Review
Robert Polito. Shame from Black Clock
David Rieff. Illness as More Than Metaphor from The New York Times Magazine
Oliver Sacks. Recalled to Life from The New Yorker
Peter Selgin. Confessions of a Left-Handed Man from The Literary Review
Alan Shapiro. Why Write? from The Cincinnati Review
Lily Tuck. Group Grief from The Hudson Review
Scott Turow. Missing Bellow from The Atlantic Monthly
Marjorie Williams. A Matter of Life and Death from Vanity Fair