The Best American Essays is one of those anthologies that I wait eagerly (highlight eagerly) every year. And nine times out of ten, it doesn't disappoint. So when I came across the inaugural edition (1986) at a used book store, I picked it up, and couldn't wait to get home to read it, especially since it included essays by Joseph Brodsky, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Jay Gould, Joyce Carol Oates, and Gore Vidal (among other great writers). Imagine my surprise when I read it and found that this was not a very good collection of essays. One would think that you would work especially hard to make the inaugural edition to be a phenomenal collection. But it was not. Barthelme's essay was disjointed and made little sense, and the essays by Cockburn, Brodsky, Fitzgerald, Gass, Wain, and Kennan were just plain dull. There were a couple of bright spots (well, more like dull twinkles in a sea of blahs): Gerald Early's essay on Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Stitt was pretty interesting and fairly well written; Oates' essay 'On Boxing'; and Gore Vidal's touching remembrance of Italo Calvino. What was nice to see in this collection was that the essays varied over a huge range of topics, and that no magazine dominated the collection (in fact, only The New Republic had two essays, every other magazine only had one). I'd have to say the best section of this collection is Robert Atwan's (series editor) forward (no, not the Introduction by the guest editor, the 3 page forward), where he eloquently describes the art of essay writing. It's a shame the rest of the essays weren't as good.

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Lilttle babs is very anxious to get there and eat her dinner too. She doenst understand why it takes so long to get to baltimore. Good story of 2 young girls on a journey for their first time ever.

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