This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, “into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we’ve come from, and who we are, and where we are going.” Among those whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and Annie Dillard.

Foreword p. x Introduction p. xvii 1901: Corn-pone Opinions p. 1 1903: Of the Coming of John p. 6 1906: A Law of Acceleration p. 20 1909: Stickeen p. 28 1910: The Moral Equivalent of War p. 45 1911: The Handicapped p. 57 1912: Coatesville p. 71 1916: The Devil Baby at Hull-House p. 75 1919: Tradition and the Individual Talent p. 90 1923: Pamplona in July p. 98 1925: The Hills of Zion p. 107 1928: How It Feels to Be Colored Me p. 114 1933: The Old Stone House p. 118 1935: What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them p. 131 1936: The Crack-Up p. 139 1937: Sex Ex Machina p. 153 1937: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch p. 159 1938: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 p. 171 1939: The Figure a Poem Makes p. 176 1941: Once More to the Lake p. 179 1944: Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away p. 186 1949: Bop p. 190 1950: The Future Is Now p. 193 1953: Artists in Uniform p. 199 1955: The Marginal World p. 214 1955: Notes of a Native Son p. 220 1956: The Brown Wasps p. 239 1957: A Sweet Devouring p. 246 1961: A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails p. 252 1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail p. 263 1964: Putting Daddy On p. 280 1964: Notes on "Camp" p. 288 1966: Perfect Past p. 303 1967: The Way to Rainy Mountain p. 313 1968: The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King p. 319 1969: Illumination Rounds p. 327 1970: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings p. 342 1971: The Lives of a Cell p. 358 1972: The Search for Marvin Gardens p. 361 1972: The Doomed in Their Sinking p. 373 1975: No Name Woman p. 383 1975: Looking for Zora p. 395 1977: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying p. 412 1979: The White Album p. 421 1980: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood p. 447 1981: The Solace of Open Spaces p. 467 1982: Total Eclipse p. 477 1982: A Drugstore in Winter p. 490 1987: Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All p. 497 1988: Heaven and Nature p. 507 1989: The Creation Myths of Cooperstown p. 520 1990: Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant p. 532 1993: The Disposable Rocket p. 549 1995: They All Just Went Away p. 553 1997: Graven Images p. 564 Biographical Notes p. 569 Notable Twentieth-Century American Literary Nonfiction p. 591 Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

JOYCE CAROL OATES is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the winner of the National Book Award. Among her major works are We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The Falls. ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.

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