Robert Atwan Boeken

Examines the interaction between style of writing and the intended reading audience in advertising, the press, magazines, bestsellers, classic writings, and scripts, from 1492 to the present. Includes ads for/by Modart, Listerine, Tiparillo, NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund, Mary Ann Restivo, Wrangler, U.S. Army, National Women's Political Caucus, Nike, American Express Company, White Owl, Charles Atlas, Joe Weider, Future Homemakers of America, Paco Rabanne, Aramis, Calvin Klein, Oaktree, Resinol Soap, Book of Etiquette, Symphony Press, LifeStyles, International Paper Company, San Francisco Black Coalition on AIDS, Neutrogena, Willys-Overland, Ford Closed Cars, Volkswagen, Oldsmobile Tornado, Mazda, Saturn, Suzuki, Wolfschmidt's Vodka, Ballantine Ale, Schrafft's, Coca-Cola, McCormick/Schilling, Campari, Burger King, McDonald's, Great Books, Seventeen, Eyewitness News, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, SONY, Mitsubishi, Army National Guard, United Negro College Fund, Distilled Spirits Council, Tobacco Institute, Bell System, National Rifle Association, Handgun Control, Rockwell International, Adelphi University, Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness. Includes writings by Marianne Moore, David Ogilvy, Patricia Volk, Neil Postman, Teresa Riordan, Michael Specter, David Beers, Catherine Capellaro, Stephen Crane, Francis Pharcellus Church, Heywood Broun, Jack Lait, George M. Mahawinney, Dorothy Thompson, Langston Hughes, William L. Laurence, Tom Wicker, Thomas O'Toole, Vivian Gornick, Mike Royko, Susan Jacoby, Jimmy Breslin, Debbie McKinney, Diana Griego Erwin, Samuel Francis, David Von Drehle, Michael Ventura, Anna Quindlen, Scott Higham, Ancil Davis, Tottie Ellis, Mona Charen, Juan Williams, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Mills, Teri Maddox, Laura Parker, Luther Campbell, Russell Baker, Ann Powers, Nina Schuyler, George Lakoff, David G. Savage, Maureen Dowd, Patrick O'Connell, Jeffrey Hart, Karen Jurgensen, Paul Hemphill, Jack London, William Hand, Peter Homans, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Gretel Ehrlich, Stephen King, Bob Greene, Lance Morrow, Jerry Adler, Martin Gottfried, Sallie Tisdale, Randy Shilts, Ann Hodgman, Elizabeth F. Brown, William R. Hendee, Sidney Hook, Ishmael Reed, Josh Ozersky, John Updike, Robert Hughes, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, P.T. Barnum, Ernest L. Thayer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dale Carnegie, Wilfred Funk, Norman Lewis, Ogden Nash, Mickey Spillane, Grace Metalious, Vance Packard, Mario Puzo, Alex Haley, Benjamin Spock, Ron Kovic, William Least Heat Moon, Letitia Baldridge, Garrison Keillor, Barry Lopez, Allan Bloom, Amy Tan, Susan Faludi, Christopher Columbus, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Angelou, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, Raymond Carver, Lewis Thomas, Annie Dillard, Eudora Welty, June Jordan, Orson Welles, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Dick Orkin and Bert Berdis, Robert Geller, Richard B. Eckhaus, and Matt Williams

This abridged one-volume edition collects poetry from the original two volumes of Chapters into Verse to survey the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present.

For this singular collection, Joyce Carol Oates selected fifty-five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century. Here is a sampling -- twelve unabridged essays -- featuring a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading their own work. Nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY is "an outstanding, galvanic collection" (Entertainment Weekly).

Now in its twentieth year, this "consistently refined and lively series" (Booklist)still highlights "the best that the form can be" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Editedby the best-selling writer Susan Orlean, this year"s collection highlights lively and provocative writing for these difficult times. Contributors include Roger Angell, Andrea Barrett, David Sedaris, Holly Welker, and others.

The Language of Spring  collects some thirty of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring. The poems range from the traditional and formal (Gerard Manley Hopkins"s "Spring" and Edna St. Vincent Millay"s "English Sparrows") to the contemporary, experimental, and diverse (Henry Reed"s "Naming of Parts," Marie Ponsot"s "Mauve," and William Carlos Williams"s "The Widow"s Lament in Springtime"). Each poem beautifully illuminates another small spot of time in the enthralling season of renewal. Other contributors Maxine Kumin (the volume"s title is adapted from her poem), Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Richard Wright, John Updike, Walt Whitman, Yusef Komunyakaa, e. e. cummings, D. H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, Jane Kenyon, Sara Teasdale, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, James Tate, and A. R. Ammons.

Essays by Jean Ervin, Jacob Cohen, Ward Just, Floyd Skloot, Gerald Early, James Salter, Philip Weiss, Cynthia Ozick, Diane Johnson, Joseph Brodsky, Marcia Aldrich, Paul R. McHugh, Anthony Burgess, Daniel M. Harris, Robert Sherrill, Shaun O'Connell, Thomas C. Palmer, Lawrence Otis Graham, Scott Russell Sanders, and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, a "master artist" (Maris Kreizman, host of The Maris Review) of the personal essay, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, Geoffrey C. Ward, Cynthia Ozick, and Stephen Jay Gould. This year’s volume is terrifically diverse, with subjects ranging from driving lessons to animal rights to citizenship in times of emergency.

The Best American Series® showcases a curated collection of the year's finest writing across various genres, featuring contributions from both established and emerging authors. Each volume is edited by a prominent figure in the literary world, ensuring a diverse range of voices and styles. This anthology highlights exceptional storytelling, innovative perspectives, and cultural reflections, making it a vital resource for readers seeking to explore contemporary literature and discover new favorites.