The Best American Essays 2023

Edited and with an Introduction by Vivian Gornick
Robert Atwan, Series Editor

Copyright © 2023 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Introduction copyright © 2023 by Vivian Gornick
ISBN 978-0-063-28884-3










Contents

Foreword 

Introduction 


When We Were Boys by Ciara Alfaro 

Any Kind of Leaving by Jillian Barnet 

Fat Man and Little Boy by Sylvie Baumgartel 

Bidders of the Din by Eric Borsuk

We Were Hungry by Chris Dennis 

Ms. Daylily by Xujun Eberlein 

The Rough Ride by Sandra Hager Eliason 

Concision: A Sprawl by George Estreich 

Revelation at the Food Bank by Merrill Joan Gerber

Siri Tells a Joke by Debra Gwartney 

On Aging by Edward Hoagland 

Gender: A Melee by Laura Kipnis 

An Archaeological Inquest by Phillip Lopate 

A Thousand Gentle Smotherings by Celeste Marcus 

A Fist of Muscle by Sam Meekings 

Life and Story by Sigrid Nunez 

Eat Prey Love by Kathryn Schulz 

Thirteen Ways of Listening to the Rain by Robert Anthory Siegel 

Dreamers Awaken by Scott Spencer 

Care Credit by Angelique Stevens 

The Americas They Left Me by David Treuer 


Contributors’ Notes 

Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2022 

Notable Special Issues of 2022 

About the Editors

Guest Editors of the Best American Essays

About Mariner Books

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