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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a Best American Essay junkie. I spend all year waiting for the new edition. I read it feverishly and all at once. I take notes in the margins and copy my favorites essays to distribute to other writerly friends. I re-read at least four essays from the collection a dozen times.<br/><br/>Not thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2480648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I cried on the subway today while reading Sam Pickering's essay, &quot;George&quot;. Pickering describes his bond with his dog and talks about having to put the dog to sleep. I want to read some of his collections of essays. He was the inspiration for Robin William's character in one of my favorite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1868812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren Slater must have been in a real funk when choosing the cream of this year’s crop of Best American Essays. The collection is a contemplation on mortality, with stories of terminal illness, decline in old age, and facing grief alone and in the company of others. I’m currently reading a grea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1045547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite of the series so far.  Slater chose some I wouldn't even consider essays, and she chose an unusual number dealing with illness and death.  However, there were a few gems in the mix, including Marjorie Williams &quot;A Matter of Life and Death,&quot; and Adam Gopnik's &quot;Death of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41109689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[kudos to the editor - these miscellaneous, unrelated essays are sequenced like a mix tape: a common name or theme popping up in the next, imposing an artificial but pleasing sense of order and commonality...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, everyone I know should probably go read Michele Morano's essay &quot;Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood.&quot; If you have a single psychologists' impulse in your body, you will find yourself yelling advice from time to time, but it's worth it. Extremely clever.<br/><br/>There are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren Slater is brave in her intro. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Death death death deathdeath death.  Death death, death death death—death deathdeath, death—death deathdeath death.  Dying.<br/><br/>There.  That’s the skinny.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hit or miss collection.  Essays that surprised or delighted me are these: &quot;501 Minutes to Christ&quot; (Poe Ballantine), &quot;Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive&quot; (Michele Morano), &quot;Confessions of a Left-Handed Man&quot; (Peter Selgin), and &quot;Group Grief&quot; (Lily Tuck).  This a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2458331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose that's why they're referred to as the best essays ... I picked this book up on a whim on my way out of the library (I was looking for a light paperback that would travel well), and I've been very pleasantly surprised with the essays I've read so far.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strong collection overall. Seems like a wider range of perspectives and topics than in past years, and the writing is stronger. Highlights: Emily Bernard's &quot;Teaching the N-Word&quot; and Sam Pickering's &quot;George.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't much help, but while I don't remember the details of most of these essays, I read every single one and enjoyed them. Probably the same thing I could say about most positive events in my life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These essays were indeed very good, although Slater picked A LOT of essays about death. Spouses, pets, oneself... did no one write any happy essays that year? Still though, good. Obvi.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some essays were a little boring, but it explores a variety of subjects and voices; so its good if you are looking for examples of how to improve your own writing]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always found Lauren Slater's writing to be more whining than literature, and here she's gone and gathered a whole collection of whining. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good way to catch up on the New Yorker articles I've passed over (the cartoons are so much faster to read) the past year.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for:<br/><br/>&quot;Lost Dog&quot; by Susan Orlean<br/>&quot;Death of a Fish&quot; by Adam Gopnik<br/>&quot;Grammar Lessons&quot; by Michele Morano ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series.  Especially 1998's edition.  Last year's is good too.]]></body>
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