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2020 brings back the calendar, which began at the beginning of liturgical Advent, Nov 29. It features the following writers:
- Nov 29: Ander Monson on Living in the Delay, Outer Wilds, and Peter Orner
- Nov 30: Pamela Pierce on Melissa Faliveno, Twister, and Friday Night Lights
- Dec 1: Mike Martone and His Steam Memoir
- Dec 2: Nicole Walker
- Dec 3: Wren Awry, Gnocchi on the Picket Line
- Dec 4: Hea-ream Lee on Susan Neville's Iconography and the Sacred Daily Ritual
- Dec 5: Craig Reinbold, Yes to the Flesh?
- Corinna Cook
- Caryl Pagel (piece in by midnight 12/4)
- Bethany Maile
- Hea-Ream Lee
- George Estreich
- David Griffith
- Nicole Sheets
- Darcy Jay Gagnon
- Alison Deming
- Susan Neville
- Kyoko Mori
- Melissa Faliveno
- Lauren Ostberg
- Genia Blum
- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
- Brooke Champagne
- Brooke Wonders
- Marina Blitshteyn
- Travis Scholl
- Michael Martone
- Scott Morris
- Lucas Mann
2019 we took off to devote to the What Happened on December 21, 2019 project. We'll be back in 2020 though.
2018 is an unthemed advent calendar:
2018 is an unthemed advent calendar:
- Dec 2: Chelsea Biondolillo's Fourteen Introductions
- Dec 3: Colin Rafferty on Sound, Endings, and Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace
- Dec 4: John Proctor on June Jordan
- Dec 5: Lyzette Wanzer's "Finding A Way In: Teaching the Lyric Essay"
- Dec 6: Matthew Vollmer's Notes for an Essay on Special Music
- Dec 7: Patrick Madden: "heh heh heh heh" (a correspondence with Brian Doyle)
- Dec 8: Julija Šukys: Deep Roots (Thinking About “Koreans With Guns”)
- Dec 9: Silas Hansen on Sarah Einstein’s “Self-Portrait in Apologies”
- Dec 10: Matthew Gavin Frank's Stranded on Stromboli, Reading about Morality: A Conversation
- Dec 11: Paul Lisicky on Joy Williams's "Hawk"
- Dec 12: Ander Monson on Selah Saterstrom
- Dec 13: Jill Christman on Writing Sexual Trauma Under Title IX
- Dec 14: Hannah Ensor on Denise Levertov's "On the Function of the Line" (1979)
- Dec 15: Heather Wells Peterson on Brian Blanchfield's PROXIES
- Dec 16: Virginia Marshall on the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf
- Dec 17: Jennie Ziegler on Nora Ephron and Indulging Old Aches
- Dec 18: Jenn Shapland's Incendio! On Zadie Smith’s “The Shadow of Ideas”
- Dec 19: Melissa Matthewson on Virginia Woolf
- Dec 20: Susan Briante's "Little Christmas"
- Dec 21: Brian Blanchfield on the Day as a Literary Unit
- Dec 22: Joe Slocum on Brian Doyle
- Dec 23: Dorian Rolston on the Mirror
- Dec 24: Dave Griffith on Joan Didion
- Dec 25: Alison Hawthorne Deming on Bruno Latour
- Dec 31: Dave Mondy's New Year's Eve Joint
The theme for 2017 is recoveries, meaning that we would like to uncover or recover essays that we feel are underread:
- Dec 3: Terese Svoboda on Lola Ridge
- Dec 4: Clinton Crockett Peters on Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
- Dec 5: Lela Scott MacNeil on Betty Fussell
- Dec 6: Sarah Minor Recovering from Descent
- Dec 7: Marcia Aldrich on Anne Panning
- Dec 9: Stephen Benz on Ambrose Bierce
- Dec 10: Sonja Livingston, Toward Solace
- Dec 11: Kevin Mosby on Charles Reznikoff
- Dec 12: Dorian Rolston on Method Men
- Dec 13: Lawrence Lenhart on MFK Fisher
- Dec 14: Robert Atwan on Content & Aesthetics
- Dec 15: Brian Oliu on Scaffolding and Colin Rafferty
- Dec 16: Jenny Spinner and Patrick Madden on the Forgotten Women of the Essay
- Dec 17: T Clutch Fleischmann on Sylvia Rivera & the Personal as Now
- Dec 18: Michael Martone on James Agee
- Dec 19: Sylvia Chan on Justin Chin
- Dec 20: Alysia Sawchyn on MFK Fisher
- Dec 21: Dave Griffith, "What Makes a Life Significant?"
- Dec 22: Jill Christman on Ashley C. Ford, Brittany Means, and Alysia Sawchyn
- Dec 23: Craig Reinbold on Douglas Coupland
- Dec 24: Dave Mondy on Arthur Ashe and the Style We Leave Behind
- Dec 25: Ander Monson on Paying Attention
2016 was an unthemed Advent Calendar:
- Dec 1: Susan Neville
- Dec 2: Clinton Crockett Peters
- Dec 3: Mary Cappello
- Dec 4: Marcia Aldrich et al
- Dec 5: César Díaz
- Dec 6: Lia Purpura
- Dec 7: Sarah Sheesley
- Dec 8: Lela Scott MacNeil
- Dec 9: Thomas Mira y Lopez
- Dec 10: Steven Church
- Dec 11: Brian Oliu
- Dec 12: Meehan Crist
- Dec 13: Sarah Minor
- Dec 14: Patrick Madden
- Dec 15: Nicole Walker
- Dec 16: Lawrence Lenhart
- Dec 17: Erica Trabold
- Dec 18: Steffan Triplett & Jill Talbot
- Dec 19: Kyoko Mori
- Dec 20: Ander Monson
- Dec 21: Craig Reinbold
- Dec 22: Erin Zwiener
- Dec 23: Dave Griffith
- Dec 24: Dave Mondy
- Dec 25: Treat Yourself
2015 featured essays about The Best American Essays series, and required a few extra days in our calendar...
- Nov 29: BAE 1986 read by Sven Birkerts: A Ramble Around BAE 1986, edited by Elizabeth Hardwick
- Nov 30: BAE 2014 read by Christy Wampole: November Thirteenth
- Dec 1: BAE 1996: Tests of Time by Eric LeMay
- Dec 2: BAE 2001 read by Matthew Gavin Frank
- Dec 3: BAE 1990 as read by Joni Tevis: The Traveler: An Essay and Playlist
- Dec 4: BAE 2004 with John Proctor
- Dec 5: Renée E. D’Aoust: Regarding The Best American Essays 2003
- Dec 6: BAE 1998 with Brian Doyle: I AM A GOLDEN ESSAY GOD!
- Dec 7: Robert Atwan: The Best American Essays: Some Notes on the Series, Its Background and Origins.
- Dec 8: BAE 1993 as read by Jill Talbot: Context and Observations
- Dec 9: BAE 2015: Sarah Minor on Death and Mourning the Essay in 2015
- Dec 10: BAE 2010: Composing Smart by César Díaz
- Dec 11: BAE 1987 as read by Ned Stuckey-French
- Dec 12: BAE 1988 as read by Amy Leach
- Dec 13: BAE 2008: Los Mejores Ensayos Americanos by Michele Morano
- Dec 14: Best American Essays 2005 read by Michael Martone: A Bread Crumb Memoir
- Dec 15: BAE 1992 as read by T Clutch Fleischmann
- Dec 16: Thomas Larson on BAE 1995: Man Versus Boy
- Dec 17: Stephanie G’Schwind on the BAE 2009, edited by Mary Oliver
- Dec 18: BAE 2012 Read by Thomas Mira y Lopez
- Dec 19: BAE 2002, read by Nicole Walker
- Dec 20: BAE 1991 read by Michael Steinberg
- Dec 21: Revisiting the Last Millennium: The Best American Essays 2000 by Kyoko Mori
- Dec 22: BAE 2007 as read by Mary Clearman Blew
- Dec 23: 2013 as read by Marcia Aldrich: On Being Moved: Four Takes on the Personal
- Dec 24: David L. Ulin on Best American Essays 2011
- Dec 25: Nicole Wallack on Robert Atwan's Art of the Foreword
- Dec 26: BAE 1997, read by Will Slattery
- Dec 27: BAE 1998 read by Craig Reinbold: On Annie Dillard, Fanatic
- Dec 28: Ander Monson: On Finding The Best American Essays 1999 at the Bear Canyon Goodwill
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