<P><B>“A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating.” — <I>Publishers Weekly</I></B></P> <p><I>The Best American Essays 2014</I> is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection <I>Pulphead</I>. The<I> New York Times</I> placed Sullivan “among the best young nonfiction writers in English” and the <I>New York Times Book Review</I> heralded <I>Pulphead </I>as “the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since Wallace’s <I>A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again</I>.”