Best American Essays Newsletter
Best American Essays Editor, Robert AtwanA digital newsletter featuring updates about the Best American Essays series, essays about the essay, interviews, reviews, and more.
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Upcoming In-Person Workshop: Pay No Attention to That Person Behind the Mask
July 13-17, 2026: Join Best American Essays series editor Kim Dana Kupperman at Maine Media’s Rockport campus for a generative workshop exploring the made-up self who tells a story in first-person narrative.
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In Memoriam: Edward Hoagland
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The Art of the Essay: An In-Person Workshop
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I’ve been honored to have taught with the incomparable Baron Wormser for over a decade and to have known him for over twenty years. His untimely death on October 7, 2025, sent those of us who knew him into a tailspin. The author of many vol...
The Art & Practice of the Essay
Guided by Best American Essays series editor Kim Dana Kupperman, open the doors to the art and practice of the essay through an immersive, generative process of reading to write and reading to re-vision. Four Tuesdays, 1:00-4:00 pm, March 2...
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Best American Essays is an annual anthology of essays curated from the periodical literature. The series was launched in 1986 by Robert Atwan. HarperCollins is the publisher. Effective with the 2024 volume, Kim Dana Kupperman is the series editor.
Robert Atwan founded and served as series editor of The Best American Essays from 1986 until his retirement in 2023.
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