A review by pajge
The Best American Essays 2005 by Robert Atwan, Susan Orlean

3.5

i liked it. the pitfall of reviewing these things is how different each piece is, like that first essay i couldn’t finish, it was so pretentious and forcibly inaccessible, just humble-bragging. and there were others i didn’t fully get through, but some great ones, too, notably by brian doyle, jonathen franzen, ted kooser, e.j levy, david masello, cathleen schine, david sedaris, and david foster wallace. as promised, it was full of great essays