**“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.” — *Publishers Weekly*** *The Best American Essays 2014* is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection *Pulphead*. The *New York Times* placed Sullivan “among the best young nonfiction writers in English” and the *New York Times Book Review* heralded *Pulphead* as “the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since Wallace’s *A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again*.”