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Tables of Contents for The Best American Essays 2000
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Robert Atwan
Introduction
xiii
Alan Lightman
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1
12
Andre Aciman
In Distrust of Movements
13
7
Wendell Berry
The Joys and Perils of Victimhood
20
12
Ian Buruma
A Son in Shadow
32
15
Fred D'Aguiar
Westbury Court
47
5
Edwidge Danticat
In Defense of the Book
52
12
William H. Gass
Rome: The Visible City
64
16
Mary Gordon
Earth's Eye
80
6
Edward Hoagland
Those Words That Echo...Echo...Echo Through Life
86
5
Jamaica Kincaid
If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
91
10
Geeta Kothari
The Resurrectionist
101
9
Richard McCann
The Synthetic Sublime
110
12
Cynthia Ozick
The Force of Spirit
122
12
Scott Russell Sanders
At a Certain Age
134
6
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
140
7
Peter Singer
Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain
147
13
Floyd Skloot
Listening for Silence
160
9
Mark Slouka
Heroin/e
169
13
Cheryl Strayed
What's So Bad About Hate?
182
19
Andrew Sullivan
A Designer Universe?
201
10
Steven Weinberg
A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness
211
10
Terry Tempest Williams
Biographical Notes
221
5
Notable Essays of 1999
226