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This week we\u2019re talking about this year\u2019s edition of Best American Essays. We compare it to previous years (spoiler: this one is a bummer), discuss the new subgenre of pandemic essays, and focus on a few selections from the anthology. Also: David makes us a pandemic cocktail, Justin\u2019s dog makes a few barky cameos, we (well, one of us) question the entire Best American Essays enterprise, and we do a year-end lightning news/round. See you next year!

(Note: we don\u2019t mention Joan Didion\u2019s death because it occurred the morning after we recorded, but if you\u2019d like to hear some of our previous thoughts on Didion, we did an episode about her latest book earlier this year: http://www.essaypodcast.com/s3-e2-didion-on-writing/)

Some things we mention:

Best American Essays 2021:\nhttps://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/the-best-american-essays-2021/9780358381754\xa0

Assay\u2019s interview with Robert Atwan, the series editor of Best American Essays:\nhttps://www.assayjournal.com/interview-with-robert-atwan-31.html\xa0

Alexander Chee\u2019s link to BAE 2022 submission guidelines:\nhttps://twitter.com/alexanderchee/status/1473391913784983553

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