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Best American Essays 2010
October 26, 2010
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Series editor Robert Atwan joins contributors John Summers and Jerald Walker to discuss The Best American Essays 2010, the 25th anniversary volume.

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Posted by MatthewMammola November 15, 2010 at 11:03pm

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Creative Non-Fiction. I can see how this is tough to define. After all, it is said that there really is no such thing as objectivity. If that is a fact, then almost all non-fiction is a little bit creatively skewed in some way.