The Essay’s Future
Volume 33, Number 2
January-February 2012
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Lynn Z. Bloom’s “Introduction to Focus: Essay Hunger—Devouring Essays in the 21st Century”
Linda H. Peterson reviews Robert B. Ray’s Walden x 40
Rebecca Blevins Faery reviews Carl H. Klaus’s The Made-Up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay
Robert Root reviews Ned Stuckey-French’s The American Essay in the American Century
Paul Collins reviews John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead
Donald McQuade reviews Edwidge Danticat’s The Best American Essays 2011
Robert Atwan’s “Back to the Future”
Melissa Goldthwaite reviews Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
Douglas Hesse reviews Ander Monson’s Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir
Rosemary Winslow reviews Charles Bernstein’s Attack of the Difficult Poems
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.