Joanie’s Reviews > The Best American Essays 2023: Guest editor Vivian Gornick curates 21 daring personal essays―from Sigrid Nunez to David Treuer―on resilience and truth. > Status Update

got loaned this! can't say i'd be reading a lot of these on my own, but i'm appreciating the new experience all the same. ms. daylily by xujun eberlein and bidders of the din by eric borsuk are the pieces that have stuck with me the most. & celeste marcus' a thousand gentle smotherings and sam meekings' a fist of muscle (perhaps biased bc of me working in cardiology).