I’m pleased as punch to announce that “The Book of the Dead“—my essay on the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster and the poet Muriel Rukeyser from the Fall 2016 issue of Oxford American—will be included in the The Best American Essays 2017. It’s an honor to be included, of course, but especially so because of my great admiration for the writing of Leslie Jamison, who edited this year’s collection. From the publisher’s listing:
The best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing her incredible ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR) to the task.
Crackerjack! Preorder your copy…