6/23/2023 0 Comments Aciman andreThe series editor takes a spin through his thoughts on Gertrude Stein, which have little if nothing to do with the essays here, all of which are more readable than Getrude Stein's writing. There is a lot of good writing, pleasurable to read and intellectually provocative, in The Best American Essays 2020, but all that starts once you have finished the odd forward by the series editor and the introduction by the volume editor. The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINE From a Black father’s confrontation of his son’s illness, to a divorcée’s transcendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuing moments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace.” The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. “An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name.
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