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June 2025

Best American Essays 2024 Featured in World Literature Today
Breakout Review by Chris Arthur in WLT July/August 2025 Issue
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Happy Birthday, George Orwell
Born June 25, 1903, Motihari, India | Died January 21, 1950, London, England
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Mary Lide
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Happy Birthday, Mary McCarthy
Born June 21, 1912, Seattle, WA | Died October 25, 1989, New York City, NY
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Cheyenne Paterson

May 2025

Happy Birthday, Randolph Bourne
Born May 30, 1886, Bloomfield, NJ | Died December 22, 1918, New York
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Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 25, 1803, Boston, MA | Died April 27, 1882, Concord, MA
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Happy Birthday, Peter Matthiessen
Born May 22, 1927, New York NY | Died April 5, 2014, Sagaponack, NY
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In Memoriam: Gloria Anzaldúa
Died May 15, 2004, Santa Cruz, CA
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Bayani Young
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THE BEST AMERICAN SERIES® 2025 Anthology Guest Editors Announced
Jia Tolentino guest edits THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2025 (forthcoming from Mariner Books, October 21, 2025)
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Happy Birthday, Albert Murray
Born May 12, 1916, Nokomis, AL | Died August 18, 2013 (age 97), Harlem, NY
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Cheyenne Paterson
Jia Tolentino captures our unhinged times
BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2025 Guest Editor: "Much of what we see now is fake."
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April 2025

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