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The Best American Essays 2007
Edited by David Foster Wallace
Houghton Mifflin, 307 pages, $14 paper
Autumn may mean leaves and pumpkins for most of the citizenry, but a small cohort of us await the “Best American” series — nine books, ranging from writing on sports to travel to spirituality to short fiction — judiciously selected from countless publications. In this year’s essay collection, I was especially delighted by Louis Menand’s piece on a cell-phone ring tone that can’t be heard by most people older than 20, and Mark Danner’s on Iraq. In his introduction, editor David Foster Wallace writes that “these pieces are models — not templates, but models — of ways I wish I could think and live in what seems to me this world.”
