Anthologies

Collects tributes to the noted author written by those who have been influenced by her life and work, including, Richard Bausch, Fred Chappell, Ellen Gilchrist, Barry Hannah, Alice Munro, Lee Smith, and Richard Wilbur

For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is "an outstanding, galvanic collection" (Entertainment Weekly).