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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
James Richardson : Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
Martha Cooley : What I Hear
Geeta Kothari : Listen
Patrick Madden : Dispatch from Montevideo, in which the Madden family flies to Uruguay and plays the lottery
Sven Birkerts : One Long Sentence
Pico Iyer : Why I Travel
Leslie Jamison : La Plata Perdida
Anika Fajardo : What Didn’t Happen
Ira Sukrungruang : Summer Days, 1983
Claudia Rankine : Excerpt from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher : White
S. L. Wisenberg : Passover Rental Furniture: Houston
Lia Purpura : Brief Treatise Against Irony
Barbara Hurd : Cocoons
Phillip Lopate : Max and Minna
Nicholas Montemarano : No Results Found
Scott Nadelson : Parental Pride
Chris Daley : Thoughts on Time After Viewing Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Lynne Sharon Schwartz : The Renaissance
David L. Ulin : A Tale of Two Cities
Steven Harvey : Sputnik 2
Jennifer Finney Boylan : Why the Long Face?
Meghan Daum : Home on the Prairie: Lincoln, Nebraska
Roxane Gay : There Are Distances Between Us
Kim Barnes : Spokane Is a Coat: 1978
Benjamin Anastas : O Pioneers!
Jill Talbot : Stranded
Rebecca McClanahan : Things Gone the Way of Time
Jeff Oaks : 4 for Easter
Bill Capossere : Chess Piece
Jericho Parms : Red
Nancy Geyer : Umbrellas
Jane Brox : Star Light, Star Bright
Cheryl Merrill : Wild Life
Liz Stephens : American Animal
Pam Houston : What the Osprey Knows
M. J. Iuppa : Clotheslines
Greg Glazner : Foul Ball
Jonathan Wilson : Post-Game
Eduardo Galeano : The Fan
Tod Goldberg : Joltin’ Joe Has Left and Gone Away
Bernard Cooper : The Insomniac Manifesto
Amy Gerstler : Viennese Pathology Museum
Jennifer Culkin : Ichthyosis
Emily Rapp : Los Angelitos
Tracy Daugherty : The Summer After
Abigail Thomas : How to Banish Melancholy
Michael Martone : Brooding
Hilton Als : Fats
Marjorie Sandor : Hoffmanniana
Joe Mackall : When You Write About Murder
Jim Krusoe : Traffic
J. Malcolm Garcia : Securing District Four
Paul Auster : Winter Journal: The First Three Pages
Dinty W. Moore : If Mr. Clean Had Been My Father
Peggy Shumaker : The Nun
Brenda Miller : Swerve
Stuart Dybek : Between
Lance Larsen : A Brief History of Water
Leila Philip : Water Rising
Barrie Jean Borich : Crease
Kate Carroll de Gutes : The Wardrobe Series
Joan Wickersham : Mom x 3
Suzanne Berne : Gifts
Naomi Shihab Nye : Thanksgiving Picnic
Joe Bonomo : The Blur Family
Judith Kitchen : Who
Sonja Livingston : A Thousand Mary Doyles
Josette Kubaszyk : Swing
Emily Holt : Hunger
Paul Lisicky : A Phone Call with My Father
Dinah Lenney : Future Imperfect
Julian Barnes : Grief
Wayne Koestenbaum : The Desire to Write About The Green Line
Lawrence Weschler : Motes in the Light
Patricia Hampl : Reading
Marvin Bell : The Revolution Needs a Song
Alphabetical Table of Contents
Appendix: List of Themes
Bios
Photo Credits
Permissions
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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