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Happy Birthday, Patti Smith

In Memoriam: Joan Didion

In Memoriam: bell hooks

Happy Birthday, Joan Didion

In Memoriam: Hannah Arendt

In Memoriam: James Baldwin

Happy Birthday, Phillip Lopate

Happy Birthday, Brian Doyle

Happy Birthday, Robert Atwan

Best American Essays 2024: #10 on Indie Bestseller List

Happy Birthday, Maxine Hong Kingston

Watch Our Launch Event

Happy Birthday, Paula Gunn Allen

Day 22: "A Rewilding"

Streaming Live: Launch Event at Brookline Booksmith

Day 21: "Anita Baker Introduced Us and Patrice Rushen Did the Rest"

Day 20: "Storm Damage"

Day 19: "Love Is a Washing Line"

Day 18: "As Big As You Make It Out to Be"

Day 17: "Because: An Etiology"

Day 16: "Memory's Cellar"

Launch Event on October 22, 2024

Day 15: "An Upset Place"

Day 14: "Trapdoor"

Happy Birthday, Hannah Arendt

Day 13: "As They Like It"

Day 12: "1978"

Day 11: "If Not Now, Later"

Day 10: "The Ones We Sent Away"

Day 9: "If/Then"

Day 8: "The Anatomy of Panic"

Day 7: "Woodstove"

Day 6: "Proxemics"

Day 5: "It's Hard Out Here for a Memoirist"

Day 4: "The Lives of Bryan"

Day 3: "Mere Belief"

Day 2: "Reframing Vermeer"

Day 1: "Jenisha from Kentucky"

Day 0: From the Front Matter

Happy Birthday, Gloria Anzaldúa

Happy Birthday, bell hooks

First Review of THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2024

In Memoriam: William Hazlitt

Interview with Essayist Jerald Walker

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Loren Eiseley

Centennial Birthday: James Baldwin

The Art of the Essay: A Workshop

On the Occasion of Juneteenth

Spotlight: ALTA Journal

Order The Best American Essays 2024

Editors on Submissions & Nominations

Nomination Guidelines

Virtual Editorial Panel April 20th

What If Art Doesn't Matter?