2008 Best American Essays

Rich Cohen

Edited by Adam Gopnik

PMS, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, The New Yorker (4), Georgia Reviews, Prairie Schooner, Harper's (2), New York Magazine, Transition, The Pinch, Salmagundi, Granta, New York Review of Books,  Swink, National Geographic, Open City, Southern Humanities Review

"Cracking Open" by Patricia Brieschke in PMS:  Poem, Memoir, Story
"Becoming Adolf" by Rich Cohen in Vanity Fair
"The Constant Gardener" by Bernard Cooper in Los Angeles Magazine
"The Way We Age Now" by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
"Everybody's Nickname" by Albert Goldbarth in Georgia Review

"On Necklaces" by Emily R. Grosholz in Prairie Schooner
"Candid Camera" by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker
"The Ecstasy of Influence" by Jonathan Lethem in Harper's
"The Lesbian Bride's Handbook" by Ariel Levy in New York Magazine
"Salamanca" by Jamal Mahjoub in Transition
"Notable Quotables" by Louis Menand in The New Yorker
"Solipsism" by Ander Monson in The Pinch
"On Celestial Music" by Rick Moody in Salmagundi
"Cricket Fighting" by Hugh Raffles in Granta
"This Old House" by David Sedaris in The New Yorker
"Run Like Fire Once More" by Sam Shaw in Harper's
"The Renegade" by Charles Simic in New York Review Books
"Tripp Lake" by Lauren Slater in Swink
"Extreme Dinosaurs" by John Updike in National Geographic
"Where God Is Glad" by Joe Wenderoth in Open City
"Buzzards" by Lee Zacharias in Southern Humanities Review