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A review by vdarcangelo
The Best American Essays 2012 by Robert Atwan, David Brooks
4.0
David Brooks, as expected, compiled a thoughtful and engaging selection of essays.
Faves:
Miah Arnold: "You Owe Me"
Dudley Clendinen: "The Good Short Life"
("But we don't talk about how to die. We act as if facing death weren't one of life's greatest, most absorbing thrills and challenges. Believe me, it is. This is not dull.")
Mark Edmundson: "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?"
("In reading, I continue to look for one thing -- to be influenced, to learn something new, to be thrown off my course and onto another, better way.")
Joseph Epstein: "Duh, Bor-ing"
("One can also tell a great deal about a person by what bores him.")
Jonathan Franzen: "Farther Away"
("The allure of suicide, the last big score, may go underground, but it never entirely disappears.")
Malcolm Gladwell: "Creation Myth"
Alan Lightman: "The Accidental Universe"
Ken Murray: "How Doctors Die"
Faves:
Miah Arnold: "You Owe Me"
Dudley Clendinen: "The Good Short Life"
("But we don't talk about how to die. We act as if facing death weren't one of life's greatest, most absorbing thrills and challenges. Believe me, it is. This is not dull.")
Mark Edmundson: "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?"
("In reading, I continue to look for one thing -- to be influenced, to learn something new, to be thrown off my course and onto another, better way.")
Joseph Epstein: "Duh, Bor-ing"
("One can also tell a great deal about a person by what bores him.")
Jonathan Franzen: "Farther Away"
("The allure of suicide, the last big score, may go underground, but it never entirely disappears.")
Malcolm Gladwell: "Creation Myth"
Alan Lightman: "The Accidental Universe"
Ken Murray: "How Doctors Die"