A review by ostrowk
The Best American Essays 2017 by Leslie Jamison, Robert Atwan

I'm in love with Leslie Jamison. I hope to teach her introduction to this collection someday in my own creative nonfiction class. And her taste—earnest, political, searching—pervades her curation. Her taste is my taste. Hard to even name standout essays, but I'm still haunted by Rachel Kushner's "'We Are Orphans Here.'" Greg Marshall's "If I Only Had a Leg" was charming. June Thunderstorm's "Revenge of the Mouthbreathers: A Smoker's Manifesto" was majorly provocative. Time travel back to 2016 (rough year), and bear witness all over again.