Always a Bridesmaid

My essay, "On Not Being E. B. White," which appeared in Kenyon Review a year ago, has been chosen by Robert Atwan for his list of "Notable Essays of 2010." This list is printed at the end of each volume of Best American Essays for that year, and indicates the essays that were considered for inclusion but didn't quite make it. This has happened to me before, with "Location, Location, Location," which was published in The Briar Cliff Review in 2006. One of these years....