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    The Best American Essays 2011

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    NICHOLAS DELBANCO

      Conclusion, Salmagundi, Spring/ Summer.

      A. N. DEVERS

      On the Outskirts, Tin House, vol. 12, no. 1.

      MICHELLE DISLER

      Building, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.

      ELIZABETH DODD

      Concentric Canyon, Ascent, April 19.

      MARK DOSTERT

      Behavioral Management, Cimarron Review, Summer.

      MARK DOTY

      The Unwriteable, Granta, no. 110, Spring.

      THERESE DOUCET

      Farzad, Son of Glory, Bayou, no. 53.

      BRIAN DOYLE

      Go-o-o-o, Lemmings!, American Scholar, Winter.

      RIKKI DUCORNET

      Book of Origins (Two Essays: Seed and Nakht), Pen America, no. 12.

      MARTHA GRACE DUNCAN

      Beauty in the Dark of Night: The Pleasures of Form in Criminal Law, Emory Law Journal, vol. 59, no. 5.

      HALINA DURAJ

      The Company She Keeps, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spring/Summer.

      JANET ABBOTT DUTTON

      Old Enough, Prairie Schooner, Winter.

      KRISTA EASTMAN

      Securing Mutual Response, Briar Cliff Review, no. 22.

      JOHN M. EDWARDS

      Revolutionary Wrath: A (Seriously) Biased Revision of the Burr vs. Hamilton Duel Based Upon an Old High-School Term Paper, Essays and Fictions, Winter.

      SCOTT ELY

      Drinking at the Fountain of Youth, Kenyon Review, Fall.

      NORA EPHRON

      My Life as an Heiress, New Yorker, October 11.

      JOSEPH EPSTEIN

      The Symphony of a Lifetime, Notre Dame Magazine, Spring.

      LEYLA ERTEGUN

      Projections, Believer, March/April.

      ROBERT ERWIN

      Having It All, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 2.

      ELLEN ESTILAI

      Front Yard Fruit, Alimentum, Winter.

      EDWARD FALCO

      An Elliptical Essay on Violence, Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring.

      SUSAN FALUDI

      American Electra, Harper’s, October.

      NIALL FERGUSON

      Complexity and Collapse, Foreign Affairs, March/April.

      MATT FERRENCE

      Spaces Between, Blue Mesa Review, Spring.

      GARY FINCKE

      The History of Lie Detection, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 75, nos. 3 & 4.

      ANNE FINGER

      Walking to Abbasanta. Seneca Review, Spring.

      EDWARD H. FISCHER

      Matterhorn Dreams, Minnetonka Review, Winter.

      AARON FOGEL

      Some Elementary Chords:

      Unanchored, Western Humanities Review, Winter.

      CATHERINE FOLEY

      Home to Ring, New Hibernia Review, Autumn.

      IAN FRAZIER

      On the Prison Highway, New Yorker, August 30.

      MIKE FREEMAN

      The Feel, Gettysburg Review, Spring.

      DAVID A. FRYXELL

      Both Sides Now, Desert Exposure, September.

      MARY GAITSKILL The Betrayed Wives Club, Elle, February.

      J. MALCOLM GARCIA

      Cleaning My Father’s House After He Died, Salon, July 24.

      ATUL GAWANDE

      Letting Go, New Yorker, August 2.

      DAVID GESSNER

      All My Walks, Ecotone, Spring.

      AARON GILBREATH

      Dreams of the Atomic Era, Cincinnati Review, Summer.

      WILLIAM GIRALDI

      The Physics of Speed, Antioch Review, Fall.

      JEN GIRDISH

      The Impossible Return, Post Road, no. 19.

      MALCOLM GLADWELL

      Small Change, New Yorker, October 4.

      ANNE GOLDMAN

      Questions of Transport, Georgia Review, Spring.

      ELISA GONZALEZ

      All the Words I Knew, Harvard Review, no. 38.

      J. DAVID GONZALEZ

      How Can I Help You?, Southern Indiana Review, Spring.

      ADAM GOPNIK

      Van Gogh’s Ear, New Yorker, January 4.

      EMILY FOX GORDON

      Here Again, Boulevard, Spring.

      CHRIS GOTTLIEB

      Reflections on Judging Mothering, University of Baltimore Law Review, Spring.

      MARK GREIF

      What Was the Hipster?, New York Magazine, November 1.

      KENNETH GROSS

      Shadows, Yale Review, July.

      CAIA HAGEL

      Desire, Denver Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 4.

      LINDA HALL

      How to End Up Alone, Southwest Review, vol. 95, no. 3.

      DANIEL HARRIS

      Celebrity Clothing, Salmagundi, Fall/ Winter.

      STEVEN HARVEY Blood Mountain, Ascent, March 9.

      GLADYS HAUNTON

      Glazing, Hunger Mountain, no. 15.

      CHRISTOPHER HEDGES

      Celebrity Culture and the Obama Brand, Tikkun, January/February.

      MARK HILLRINGHOUSE

      Passaic River Journal, American Poetry Review, January/February.

      EDWARD HOAGLAND

      Last Call, Harper’s, May.

      INEZ HOLGER

      The Origin of Fear, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall.

      ANN HOOD

      Long Beautiful Hair, Amoskeag, Spring.

      BILLY HOWELL

      How to Leave Your Mother, Florida Review, Winter.

      EDWARD HOWER

      Children of the Maze, Five Points, vol.

      13,no.3.

      PAT C. HOY II

      Images on the Danube, Sewanee Review, Fall.

      PETER HRANDBOIS

      Driving to Puerto Rico, Potomac Review, Spring.

      EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH

      The Bearable Lightness of Being, American Scholar, Summer.

      TOM IRELAND

      Famous, Missouri Review, Spring.

      JEREMY B. JONES

      The Resurrection of Ray Jones, Ruminate, Spring.

      PAT JORDAN

      My Father, the Grifter, Men’s Journal, January.

      TONY JUDT

      Night, New York Review of Books, January 14.

      TOM JUNOD

      Invasion, Esquire, August.

      REBECCA KANNER

      Safety, War, Literature and the Arts, no. 22.

      GARRET KEIZER

      The Courtesy of God, Lapham’s Quarterly, Winter.

      THOMAS E. KENNEDY

      Adventures of an Old Dude, New Letters, vol. 76, no. 2.

      BRIAN KEVIN

      Songs Primarily in the Key of Life, Colorado Review, Summer.

      ESON KIM

      Fixed Everything, Cream City Review, Spring.

      BARBARA KINGSOLVER

      Fresh Water, National Geographic, April.

      SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS

      Aging and the Inaccessible City, Health Affairs, September.

      GEORGINA KLEEGE

      Blind Faith, Yale Review, July.

      LINDSEY B. KOEHLER

      A Baby Story, 5280, June.

      RAFIL KROLL-ZAIDI

      Jukeboxes on the Moon, Triple Canopy, June.

      ROMAN KRZNARIC

      Empathy with the Enemy, Pedestrian, no. 1.

      KIM DANA KUPPERMAN

      An Occurrence at Avignon, Normal School, Fall.

      MATT LABASH

      Living Like a Liberal, Weekly Standard, July 19.

      DON LAGO

      Storm Pattern, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.

      LEWIS H. LAPHAM

      Figures of Speech, Harper’s, November.

      ROGER LATHBURY

      Betraying Salinger, New York Magazine, April 4.

      AMY LEACH

      Complexion, Gettysburg Review, Autumn.

      MICHELE LEAVITT

      No Trespassing, Journal, Spring/ Summer.

      DAVID LEHMAN

      Among My Souvenirs, Boulevard, Spring.

      ALEX LEMON

      Heartdusting, Southern Review, Winter.

      SETH LERER

      First Love, Yale Review, October.

      NATON LESLIE

      A Compendium of Fa
    ct, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 75, nos. 3 & 4.

      E. J. LEVY

      Artichoke Hearts, Kenyon Review, Summer.

      CAYNTHIA LEWIS

      Crazy in Love, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.

      MICHAEL LEWIS-BECK My Cherry Orchard in Iowa, Wapsipinicon Almanac, no. 17.

      MEL LIVATINO

      A Spy in the House of Experience, Under the Sun, Summer.

      PRICILLA LONG

      Balancing Act, Under the Sun, Summer.

      PHILLIP LOPATE

      How Do You End an Essay?, Salmagundi, Fall/Winter.

      BARRY LOPEZ

      An Intimate Geography, Portland, Summer.

      JAMES MACDONALD

      The Virtue of Living a Lie, Boulevard, Fall.

      MARGARET MACINNIS

      Portrait of a Man in a Fur Hat, Tampa Review, no. 40.

      PATRICK MADDEN

      Writer Michael Martone’s Leftover Water, Normal School, Fall.

      JOY MANESIOTIS

      What I Learned in Art School,

      Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.

      LEE MARTIN All Those Fathers That Night, Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall.

      HILARY MASTERS

      Looking Back: A Provincetown Memoir, Provincetown Arts, no. 25.

      CHARLES MCLEOD

      Settlers of Unassigned Lands, South Dakota Review, Spring.

      STEVE MCNUTT

      SUV vs. Bike, SUV Wins, Iowa Review, vol. 40, no. 1.

      JOHN MCPHEE

      The Patch, New Yorker, February 8.

      DAPHNE MERKIN

      My Life in Therapy, New York Times Magazine, August 8.

      A. B. MEYER

      Keep This Fortune, Epiphany, Spring/Summer.

      KATHRYN MILES

      Killing Laughter, Flyway, vol. 13, no. 1.

      BEN MILLER

      The Reinvention of Ice, Ecotone, Spring.

      JANE MILLER

      Dying, Raritan, Fall.

      LORNA MILNE

      Bear Dreaming, Frontiers, vol. 31, no. 2.

      ANNA MIRER

      The Wills of Twenty Strangers, Bellevue Literary Review, Spring.

      ANDER MONSON

      Keyboarding, Zone, Spring.

      SARAH FAWN MONTGOMERY

      Ekphrasis: What My Grandfather Saw, Fugue, Summer/Fall.

      ALEXIOS MOORE

      Field Studies Roxbury, 1983, Post Road, no. 18.

      DINTY W. MOORE

      Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged, Crazyhorse, Fall.

      MICHELE MORANO

      Evenings at the Collegeview Diner, Waterstone, no. 13.

      VIRGINIA MORELL

      The Immortal Ones: Plants and Animals That Live Forever, Creative Nonfiction, no. 38, Spring.

      KYOKO MORI The Pleasure of Letting Go, Ploughshares, Fall.

      KERRY MUIR

      The Bridge, Willow Springs, no. 66.

      DUNCAN MURRELL

      The Meat Horses of Serbia, Normal School, Fall.

      SCOTT NADELSON

      Go Ahead and Look, Oregon Humanities, Spring.

      ANTONYA NELSON

      Hello, This Is Bob, Open City, no. 29.

      ARNOLD G. NELSON

      How to Write a Good Sentence: A Manual for Writers Who Know How to Write Correct Sentences, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/ Summer.

      BETH NEWBERRY

      The Center of the Compass, Louisville Review, Spring.

      AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL

      Birth Geographic, Waterstone, no. 13.

      MEGAN NIX

      Swim, Memory, Fourth Genre, Spring. T. A. NOONAN The Trouble with Correspondence, Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer.

      JOSIP NOVAKOVICH

      Cat Named Sobaka, Prairie Schooner, Spring.

      JOYCE CAROL OATES

      Going Home Again, Smithsonian, March.

      CYNTHIA-MARIE O’BRIEN A Figment of Your Imagination, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall.

      JOHN S. O’CONNOR

      Once More to the Ocean, Schools, Spring.

      SARAH ODISHOO Time in a Bottle, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 75, nos. 3 & 4.

      DANIELLE OFRI Unstrung, Missouri Review, Winter.

      W. SCOTT OLSEN

      The World Record, Mid-American Review, vol. 30, nos. 1 & 2.

      PETER ORNER Horace and Josephine, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.

      LAWRENCE OSBORNE Hungry Ghosts, Bidoun, Spring.

      JOHN PALATTELLA

      The Death and Life of the Book Review, Nation, June 21.

      ANNE PANNING The Mailbox, Ascent, January 7.

      MICHAEL PARKER

      I’m with Stupid, Oxford American, no. 70.

      ELISE PARTRIDGE

      Legends of Good Women, Southwest Review, vol. 95, no. 4.

      DALE PECK

      Dutcher’s Notch, Threepenny Review, Summer.

      JOEL PECKHAM

      Please Take What You Want, Jelly Bucket, no. 2.

      DAVID TORREY PETERS Northern Aire Chinchilla Ranch, Indiana Review, Summer.

      ROBERT PIPPIN No Good Reason: Film Noir as Philosophy, Point, no. 2, Winter.

      DEBORAH TOMECEK PLEVA Czech Out His Name, Brain, Child, Spring.

      EILEEN POLLACK

      Thin Air, Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter.

      FRANCINE PROSE

      The King and Queen of the Roses, Southern Review, Summer.

      ANNIE PROULX

      A Yard of Cloth, Ecotone, no. 10.

      DAVID QUAMMEN

      Being Jane Goodall, National Geographic, October.

      COLIN RAFFERTY Surfacing, Fourth Genre, Fall.

      JONATHAN RAUCH

      Letting Go of My Father, Atlantic, April.

      PENELOPE SCHWARTZ ROBINSON Burrowing, Hotel Amerika, Fall.

      ROXANA ROBINSON

      Paralyzed, Harper’s, September.

      DAVID ROMTVEDT

      Notebook on a Post, Cimarron Review, Summer.

      ROBERT ROOT

      Time and Tide, Ascent, August 1.

      NATANIA ROSENFELD

      Life and Death, Southwest Review, vol. 95, no. 4.

      HANNA ROSIN

      The End of Men, Atlantic, July/ August.

      SARAH ROTHENBERG

      Reverse Immortality: The Memory of Music, TriQuarterly, no. 137.

      MARY RUEFLE

      Among the Clouds, Make, Spring/ Summer.

      LAURA-ROSE RUSSELL

      Scented, Gettysburg Review, Spring.

      JAY RUTTENBERG

      Billy Madison: A Love Letter, Lowbrow Reader, Fall/Winter.

      MARJORIE SANDOR

      Threshold, Fugue, Winter/Spring.

      REG SANER

      My Fall into Knowledge, Georgia Review, Spring.

      ALEXIS SCHAITKIN

      Living Relics, Ecotone, Spring.

      HENRY I. SCHVEY

      The Road to Tennessee, River Styx, no, 81–82.

      JOHN SEABROOK

      The Last Babylift, New Yorker, May 10.

      TRACY SEELEY

      Cartographies of Change, Prairie Schooner, Summer.

      PETER SELGIN Alone: On Two Types of Solitude, Gull Coast, Summer/Fall.

      PEGGY SHINNER

      Leopold and Shinner, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter.

      JUDITH SHULEVITZ

      Downtime, New Republic, October 14.

      MARGOT SINGER

      A Natural History of Small-Town Ohio, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.

      FLOYD SKLOOT

      The Bottom Shelf Novels I Keep Failing to Read, Sewanee Review, Summer.

      AISHA SLOAN

      Fawlanionese, Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer.

      J. D. SMITH

      Mere Aesthetics, Boulevard, Spring.

      REBECCA SOLNIT

      The Story of the Storm, Nation, September 13.

      ANDREW SOLOMON

      To an Aesthete Dying Young, Yale Alumni Magazine, July/August.

      BENJAMIN SOLOMON

      A God Place, Southeast Review, vol. 28, no. 2.

      WILLARD SPIEGELMAN

      On the Road, Kenyon Review Online, Summer.

      BRIAN JAY STANLEY

      Medi
    tation During a Rainstorm, Connecticut Review, vol. 32, no. 2.

      KIRK STERLING

      The Return of the Hostess Pajama, Epiphany, Fall/Winter.

      MICHAEL STEINBERG

      Chin Music, Gihon River Review, Fall.

      GARRETT STEWART

      Bookwork as Demediation, Critical Inquiry, Spring.

      PETER STINE

      Detroit Marathon, Sport Literate, vol. 7, no. 1.

      LAURIE STONE

      Toby Dead, Open City, no. 28.

      ROBERT STOTHART

      American Kestrel, Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer.

      LEE STRICKLAND

      Girl, Ruined, Sun, November.

      IRA SUKRUNGRUANG

      Noisy Neighbor, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring.

      JOHN TALLMADGE

      A Visit to the Creation Museum, Isotope, vol. 7, no. 2.

      ABIGAIL THOMAS

      Where the Woods Begin, Lumina, no. 9.

      ALISON B. THOMAS

      A Telescope at the Sky, Fourth Genre, Spring.

      STEVEN THRASHER

      White America Has Lost Its Mind, villagevoice.com, September 29-October 5.

      SALLIE TISDALE

      On Spectrum, Harper’s, April.

      LAD TOBIN

      There’s No Such Thing as Free Association, Sun, September.

      ANNA TSING

      Arts of Inclusion, or How to Love a Mushroom, Mánoa, Winter.

      ROBIN UNDERDAHL

      The Lovely Maiden Jumps into the Waters, Upstreet, no. 6.

      RYAN VAN METER

      The Goldfish History, Fourth Genre, Spring.

      WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

      A Good Death, Harper’s, November.

      JULIE MARIE WADE

      Eucharist, Salamander, Winter.

      CHRISTOPHER WALL Look Down, Don’t Look Down, Missouri Review, Fall.

      GARRY WALLACE

      The Sportsmans’ Barber Shop, Owen Wister Review, 2010.

      PHILIP WEITL

      Restless, Jelly Bucket, no. a.

      HOLLY WELKER

      Leap Year, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.

      JOE WENDEROTH

      Drug-Testing for Writers, Western Humanities Review, Winter.

      FREDERIC WILL

      Time and Language: The Trials of a Philosophical Tourist, Massachusetts Review, vol. 51, no. 1.

      LYNNA WILLIAMS

      Humor Is Not a Mood, Fourth Genre, Spring.

      KATHRYN WINOGRAD

      Bathing, Fourth Genre, Spring.

      LAURA ESTHER WOLFSON

      The Bagel in the Snowflake, North Atlantic Review, no. 21.

      JAMES WOOD

      Serious Noticing, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall.

      CHRISTOPHER WRENN

      Breaking Line, North Carolina Literary Review, no. 19.

      ERICA ZORA WRIGHTSON

      Artichoke, Slake, Summer.

      BEN YAGODA

      Trial and Eros, American Scholar, Autumn.

      LEE ZACHARIAS

     


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