Nita’s Reviews > The Best American Essays 2021 > Status Update

Oops, maybe it’s Dariel Suarez. Another good draft. Not finished. Kathryn Schulz is the guest curator for this - does she not know what a finished essay reads like? 🥺

Suarez on the ignorance of people who raise children on how much damage they can do

Daniel Suarez on poverty and childhood

Funny line by Max Read about cantabs

I hate political essays in anthologies, they’re dated before the anthology goes to press 🤮

Nguyen doesn’t seem to recognize her assumptions about parenting are ultra modern and circumscribed by class privilege

Beth Nguyen gazes at her mom’s piles

Beth Nguyen on imagining the lives behind other windows lit at motherhood’s wee hours

Interesting couple of pages in which Wesley morris mentions his yale experience/s

Dawn Lundy Martin piece is a good first draft; needs more work to shape into a more cohesive whole