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The American Essay is a Transparent Cow

What's wrong with the American Essay. I'm anthologized in one of the volumes of "The Best American Essays" series decried here. Can't remember what year--early 90s--an essay on abortion clinics. I wonder what the reviewers would think about my shipping essays.

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From:[info]dungeonwriter
Date:December 2nd, 2007 01:50 pm (UTC)
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I liked that essay and frankly, I'm starting to wonder about writing at all. I feel like it's so cut-throat in the business.
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From:[info]_debbiechan_
Date:December 2nd, 2007 02:14 pm (UTC)
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My abortion essay or this review of essays? XD

yESSSSSSsssss, it's cutthroat. But petty spiteful competitive people are everywhere. In every profession. In every corner. There's no escaping it --even in (GASP!) FANDOM!
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From:[info]dungeonwriter
Date:December 2nd, 2007 02:43 pm (UTC)
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Your review of essays. Your abortion essay is being held hostage by Harper's.
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From:[info]_debbiechan_
Date:December 2nd, 2007 08:53 pm (UTC)
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You know what? I don't have a file of the series! But it's also anthologized here in Thus Spake the Corpse (right next to Hunter S Thompson!):
http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/titles/codrescu.htm

It should be in libraries in this one. I dunno if the libraries carry Best American Essays. I don't even have a copy. I was paid $100, that's all, years ago, for its inclusion in there.
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From:[info]grass_angel
Date:December 3rd, 2007 09:46 pm (UTC)
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But I like essays that make me think or at least get me huffy and make me rebutt them in my head.
Not that I read many actual academic essays.
But boils on backs relating to love? As much as that is an entertaining connection and certainly a situation which would leave you with plenty of time to think, there are some things that simply add nothing to an argument.
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