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and gruesomely wholesome

depicts the parks as we know and experience them today

from the 1950s to the 1990s

The world won't stop being homo- and transphobic

The Best American Essays 2023 Paperback and the rebellious female spiritIn her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship movements, the twenty one essays collected here reflect