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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Here’s How You Use the Lion Mints: An Introduction to How We Speak to One Another
Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising “The Fine Art of Sighing”
On Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil
Majestic Ruins: On the Work of James Agee
On Essays, Assays, and Yiyun Li’s “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”
The Assault on Prose: John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay
On Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a ’76 Malibu
On Collage, Chris Kraus, and Misremembered Didion
Looking for Samuel Delany
Observations about Writing Memoir in My Twenties, Thirties, and Forties
On the Mysterious Leslie Ryan and the Structure of a Trauma Narrative
On Arianne Zwartjes’s “This Suturing of Wounds or Words” and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel’s “Cannulated Screw”
Living within the Ellipses: On Ilan Stavans’s On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
On Joan Didion, on the Morning After My Twenties
On Writing Young
On Losing Yourself
Is the Essay at the End of Time?
E-mail from Bonnie J. Rough
On the Essential Art of Failing
Leaping
Julian Barnes Brings Light to a Thanatophobe’s Conundrum
On Tom Junod’s “The Falling Man”
We Sought but Couldn’t Find: Coming Up Empty in David Shields’s “Death Is the Mother of Beauty”
Movie Quotes as Misery: On Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
A Paperback Cabinet of Wonder: Unlocking the Long Lyric Essay
The Essays of Ansel Adams: An Allegory
10 Thoughts on Elision
On Donald Hall’s “Out the Window”
On the Virtues of Drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
On Hoagland, Animal Obsession, and the Courage of Simile
On David Quammen and Writing Trout
On Long Winters, Short Essays, and a Sky That Stretches Forever
On Wendell Berry and Why I’m Not Going to Buy a Smartphone
It Is a Shaggy World, Studded with Gardens
Nonfiction Like a Brick
On the Fugue, Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?, DFW, and the Resistance to the One Thing
On The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker
On Rick Reilly’s “Need a Fourth?” from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997
On Jim Bouton’s Ball Four
On a Little-Known Gem by Max Beerbohm
On Eliot Weinberger’s “Wrens”
On Charles Lamb’s “New Year’s Eve”
On the Book of Days
On the False Glint of Fool’s Gold and Cliché
The Present of Our Past: On Alexander Stille
A Fat Man Story: On H. L. Mencken’s “A Neglected Anniversary”
On Endings: All in All, It Was a Really Weird Summer
Bibliography
Contributors
Funder Acknowledgments
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