The Best American Essays 2012

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ISBN: 9780547840093 | 0547840098
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Copyright: 10/2/2012

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New York Timescolumnist and best-selling author David Brooks takes readers on an intellectual journey in this classic collection of the year's most thought-provoking essays.

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Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
The Foul Reign of "Self-Reliance": from The New York Times Magazine	p. 1
The Crazy State of Psychiatry: from The New York Review of Books	p. 6
You Owe Me: from Michigan Quarterly Review	p. 29
Edward Hopper and the Geometry of Despair: from Boulevard	p. 43
A Beauty: from AGNI	p. 52
The Good Short Life: from The New York Times Sunday Review	p. 63
Vanishing Act: from Lapham's Quarterly	p. 67
Insatiable: from Granta	p. 78
Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?: from The Oxford American	p. 89
Duh, Bor-ing: from Commentary	p. 102
Farther Away: from The New Yorker	p. 111
Creation Myth: from The New Yorker	p. 139
Dr. Don: from The New Yorker	p. 154
Objects of Affection: from Ploughshares	p. 167
Getting Schooled: from Harper's Magazine	p. 176
Lawless. My Father/My Husband: from Prism	p. 193
The Accidental Universe: from Harper's Magazine	p. 207
The Bitch Is Back: from The Atlantic	p. 218
How Doctors Die: from Zocalo Public Square	p. 231
Other Women: from Granta	p. 236
Humanism: from The Hedgehog Review	p. 244
Killing My Body to Save My Mind: from Elle	p. 255
Outlaw: from The New York Times Magazine	p. 262
Paper Tigers: from New York Magazine	p. 274
Contributors' Notes	p. 297
Notable Essays of 2011	p. 302
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