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    The Best American Essays 2017

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      ADAM EWING

      In/Visibility, Transition, no. 119

      ALTHEA FANN

      What Flowers Mean, Crazyhorse, Fall

      BETH ANN FENNELLY

      Y’all’s Problem, The Chattahoochee Review, Spring

      GARY FINCKE

      Hearts, Ascent, May 12

      COLIN FLEMING

      A Midshipman Lights Out, Salmagundi, Spring/Summer

      MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK

      On Naming Bones, or, How to Ship a Mosquito, 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Winter

      JONATHAN FRANZEN

      The End of the End of the World, The New Yorker, May 23

      ERICA FUNKHOUSER

      One Salt Marsh, One Hawk, One Swimmer, Harvard Review, no. 49

      NEAL GABLER

      My Secret Shame, The Atlantic, May

      MEGAN GALBRAITH

      Sin Will Find You Out, Catapult, March 1

      J. MALCOLM GARCIA

      If You Raise a Mexican Flag in America, Latterly, October

      EMILY GEMINDER

      Choreograph, Agni, no. 83

      DIANA HUME GEORGE

      In the House of Habakkuk, Chautauqua, no. 13

      DAVID GESSNER

      The Taming of the Wild, The American Scholar, Summer

      DENISE GIARDINA

      Candy, Appalachian Heritage, Fall

      RENEE GLADMAN

      Five Things, The Paris Review, Summer

      ERIK GLEIBERMANN

      Soothing the Serpent’s Tooth, The Florida Review, Summer

      ELIZABETH GOLD

      So It Begins, The Gettysburg Review, Spring

      ANNE GOLDMAN

      The Kingdom of the Medusae, Southwest Review, vol. 101, no. 2

      RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ

      Dias de los Muertos: A Oaxaco Journal, Apogee, no. 8

      ADAM GOPNIK

      Feel Me, The New Yorker, May 16

      EMILY FOX GORDON

      Mr. Sears, Ploughshares, Summer

      MICHAEL GRAFF

      Man Alone, Success, September

      PETER GRANDBOIS

      Honor, North Dakota Quarterly, Winter

      SARAH GRIGG

      Medicine Wings, Boulevard, Spring

      STEPHEN D. GUTIERREZ

      The Case for Steve Gutierrez, Waccamaw, Fall

      DEBRA GWARTNEY

      Into Every Life Some Rain Must Fall, Creative Nonfiction, Fall

      SHAHNAZ HABIB

      A Letter to My Daughter About Palindromes, Agni, no. 84

      KATHLEEN HALE

      Through the Looking Glass: A Week at Miss America, Mary Review, Fall

      CLAIRE HALLIDAY

      The Possible Universe, The Sun, September

      CAMERON DEZEN HAMMON

      Infirmary Music, The Literary Review, Summer

      LARRY HANDY

      What to Do When Grandma Has Dementia, Rivet, no. 9

      SILAS HANSEN

      What Real Men Do, The Normal School, Fall

      RACHEL MICHELLE HANSON

      Ways of Leaving, American Literary Review, Spring

      DANIEL HARRIS

      The Kardashians, Southwest Review, vol. 101, no. 4

      STEPHANIE HARRISON

      What We Have Left, Colorado Review, Summer

      NATHAN HELLER

      The Big Uneasy, The New Yorker, May 30

      SARA HENDERY

      Dangerous Language, Creative Nonfiction, Summer

      ARIEL HENLEY

      White Noise, The Rumpus, October 3

      MICHAEL J. HESS

      On the Morning After the Crash, Sport Literate, vol. 10, no. 1

      ERIK P. HOEL

      Fiction in the Age of Screens, The New Atlantis, Spring/Summer

      BROOKE HOLMES

      Tragedy in the Crosshairs of the Present, Daedalus, Spring

      ANN HOOD

      Imagine, The Normal School, Spring

      LAUREN HOUGH

      ‘The Shepherds, Granta, no. 137

      CARLYNN HOUGHTON

      Letter to a Stranger: US Route 17, New York, Off Assignment, May 12

      PAT C. HOY II

      Habitations, The Sewanee Review, Summer

      EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH

      Little Bowls of Colors, The American Scholar, Autumn

      SONYA HUBER

      If Woman Is Five, River Teeth, Spring

      BARBARA HURD

      Glimpses, Orion, November/December

      SIRI HUSTVEDT

      Sontag on Smut: Fifty Years Later, Salmagundi, Spring/Summer

      AMY IRVINE

      Conflagrations, Pacific Standard, July/August

      DIONNE IRVING

      Treading Water, The Missouri Review, vol. 39, no. 2

      LUCY IVES

      Sodom, LLC, Lapham’s Quarterly, Fall

      RONALD JACKSON

      Camille: A Memory, The Chattahoochee Review, Spring

      HEATHER JACOBS

      Seven Portraits/Siete Retratos, Fifth Wednesday, Fall

      LESLIE JAMISON

      The Persephone Complex, Water-Stone Review, no. 19

      BROOKE JARVIS

      When I Die, Harper’s Magazine, January

      ANNA JOURNEY

      Little Face, Agni, no. 84

      GARRET KEIZER

      Solidarity and Survival, Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring

      RALPH KEYES

      Inscriber’s Block, The American Scholar, Spring

      ALISON KINNEY

      History in Wax, Lapham’s Quarterly, April 11

      WALTER KIRN

      Crossing the Valley, Harper’s Magazine, April

      CATHRYN KLUSMEIER

      Crucifixions, Crazyhorse, Fall

      KIM DANA KUPPERMAN

      Memorial Daze (It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry), Aster(ix), Fall

      JOHN LAHR

      Hooker Heaven, Esquire, June/July

      LAURIE CLEMENTS LAMBETH

      Going Downhill from Here, Ecotone, Spring

      BARTH LANDOR

      Forty Passages for Shakespeare, The Georgia Review, Summer

      LANCE LARSEN

      Heavenly Hits, The Gettysburg Review, Winter

      PETER LASALLE

      Driving in São Paulo at Night with a Good Friend Who Has Died, The Southern Review, Spring

      LIZ LATTY

      What We Lost: Undoing the Fairy Tale Myth of Adoption, The Rumpus, November 17

      DAVID LAZAR

      Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch, River Teeth, Fall

      ANNA LEAHY

      Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, Dogwood, no. 15

      REBECCA LEE

      The Rules of Engagement, Able Muse, Summer

      ALEX LEMON

      How Long Before You Go Dry, River Teeth, Fall

      DINAH LENNEY

      A Longer Reach, Los Angeles Review of Books, November 28

      JOAN LI

      Something That Lasts, Chicago Quarterly Review, Fall

      MARGIT LIESCHE

      The Ocean Between Us, Chicago Quarterly Review, Fall

      ANYA LIFTIG

      Irretrievable Breakdown, bioStories, September

      BRANDON LINGLE

      Turbulence, The American Scholar, Autumn

      MEL LIVATINO

      Going Home Again, Under the Sun, no. 4

      SONJA LIVINGSTON

      Spools of White Thread, 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Winter

      PHILLIP LOPATE

      Red Relations, Mount Hope, Fall

      DAVID STUART MACLEAN

      Golden Friendship Club, Bennington Review, Spring/Summer

      PATRICK MADDEN

      Missing, Portland, Spring

      EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

      The Year of Numbered Rooms, Humanities, Spring

      LUCAS MANN

      Trying to Get Right, Guernica, April 15

      ALEX MAR

      Blood Ties, Oxford American, Spring

      MARTINO MARAZZI

      Amelia, The Carolina Quarterly, Summer

      STEPHEN MARCHE

      The Age of Ephemerality, Brick, no. 96

      CLANCY MARTIN


      Seven Times Inside, Vice, November

      DAVID MASELLO

      Building Friendships, American Arts Quarterly, July

      REBECCA MCCLANAHAN

      Wren Boy, River Teeth, Spring

      ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

      The Container & the Thing Contained, Harvard Review, no. 49

      LATANYA MCQUEEN

      After Water Comes the Fires, Bennington Review, Fall/Winter

      JOHN MCWHORTER

      Thick of Tongue, Guernica, March 15

      DAVID MEANS

      The Old Man, Harper’s Magazine, June

      ANDREW MENARD

      Blind Spot, The Georgia Review, Spring

      S. J. MILLER

      A Merry Little Christmas, The Sun, May

      CAILLE MILLNER

      Four Murders, Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter

      THOMAS MIRA Y LOPEZ

      Capricci, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer

      DAVE MONDY

      And We’ll See You Tomorrow Night, The Cincinnati Review, Winter

      DEBRA MONROE

      Trouble in Mind, The Rumpus, September 11

      ANDER MONSON

      Remainder, Territory, August 5

      DAVID MONTGOMERY

      The Living and the Dead, The Washington Post Magazine, December 18

      DAN MUSGRAVE

      Worry, The Missouri Review, vol. 39, no. 2

      ALLISON GRACE MYERS

      Perfume Poured Out, Image, no. 89

      ANDI MYLES

      Impressions from a Vacuum, Alligator Juniper, no. XX

      MICHAEL NAGEL

      Beached Whales, Apt, July

      JOHN R. NELSON

      Funny Bird Sex, The Antioch Review, Winter

      KERRY NEVILLE

      After Divorce: Flight Path, Huffington Post, September 20

      JENNIFER NIESSLEIN

      Before We Were Good White, Full Grown People, December 15

      JAMES NOLAN

      Stairway to Paradise, Boulevard, Spring

      W. SCOTT OLSEN

      Before the Breaking Wave: The Duluth North Pier Lighthouse, North Dakota Quarterly, Spring/Summer

      CARYL PAGEL

      Alphabet, Entropy, September 8

      LARRY PALMER

      Urshel: The Beautiful Lost Sheep, Blackbird, Spring

      FRANCES PARK

      “You Two Are So Beautiful Together,” The Massachusetts Review, Summer

      BRICE PARTICELLI

      Take Me to the (Bronx?) River, The Big Roundtable, June

      ELENA PASSARELLO

      Twinkle, Twinkle, Vogel Staar, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer

      COREY PEIN

      Everybody Freeze! The Baffler, no. 30

      EMILIA PHILLIPS

      Excisions, Story Quarterly, no. 49

      JOHN PICARD

      The Accordion Polka, Moon City Review

      SAM PICKERING

      Habituated Eye, The Sewanee Review, Summer

      MELISSA HOLBROOK PIERSON

      Gimme Shelter, Lumina, no. XV

      SALLY POTTER

      Naked Cinema, A Public Space, no. 24

      SHELLEY PUHAK

      Detained: A Genealogy of Whores and Wolves, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, no. 54

      LIA PURPURA

      All the Fierce Tethers, The New England Review, vol. 37, no. 3

      JILL SISSON QUINN

      Begetting, Kenyon Review, September/October

      ADRIANA E. RAMÍREZ

      On Black Bodies, Metaphor, and Mourning, Literary Hub, August 30

      MICHAEL RAMOS

      A Long but Incomplete List of Some of the Things You Can’t (Don’t) Talk About, Fourth Genre, Fall

      ADRIENNE RAPHEL

      A Is for A, The Iowa Review, vol. 46, no. 3

      WENDY RAWLINGS

      Portrait of a Family, Crooked & Straight, Colorado Review, Summer

      SUE REPKO

      The Gun Show, The Southeast Review, vol. 34, no. 2

      JIM RINGLEY

      On the Smell of Certain Houses, The Threepenny Review, Fall

      WALTER M. ROBINSON

      This Will Sting and Burn, The Sun, January

      JAMES SILAS ROGERS

      Digging for Nothing, Ruminate, Spring

      KELSEY RONAN

      Blood and Water, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring

      DANIEL ASA ROSE

      Separated at Birth, Harper’s Magazine, December

      KENNETH R. ROSEN

      Notes from My Suicide, The Big Roundtable, March 10

      NATANIA ROSENFELD

      The Autonomous Land of Prapruninma, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall

      MARY ROSS-DOLEN

      Diphtheria, North Dakota Quarterly, Winter

      MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN

      Fine Dining, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall

      SHARMAN APT RUSSELL

      People Who Live Inside Us, The Threepenny Review, Winter

      SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS

      They’re Neighbors of Mine, Notre Dame Magazine, Winter

      MARIN SARDY

      Break My Body, Guernica, August 8

      RICHARD SCHMITT

      Not Knowing: The Rock & Roll of Drinking, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer

      BRANDON R. SCHRAND

      Through the Glass Clearly, The Missouri Review, vol. 39, no. 4

      MIMI SCHWARTZ

      On Stage and Off, Prairie Schooner, Fall

      SOPHFRONIA SCOTT

      Why I Didn’t Go to the Firehouse, The Timberline Review, Summer/Fall

      JO SCOTT-COE

      Listening to Kathy, Catapult, March 30

      WILLIAM HENRY SEARLE

      The Hollow of Shell Bay, Bellevue Literary Review, Spring

      DAVID SEDARIS

      The Perfect Fit, The New Yorker, March 28

      FREDERIC WILL

      Eighteen Polarities from Within the Self, The Yale Review, January

      PETER SELGIN

      Noise, Bellevue Literary Review, Fall

      AURVI SHARMA

      Apricots, Gulf Coast, vol. 28, no. 1

      MICHAEL SHEEHAN

      On the Undiscovered Origins of Everything in Waxahachie, Texas, Agni, no. 84

      FLOYD SKLOOT

      He Had a Falcon, Boulevard, vol. 32, no. 1

      LAUREN SLATER

      It’s Over?, Elle, May

      ANDREW SLOUGH

      Avoiding Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, Catamaran, Winter

      PATRICIA SMITH

      My Bricks Be Foul, Prairie Schooner, Winter

      CARRIE SNYDER

      Why Give Yourself Away?, Brick, no. 96

      JIM SOLLISCH

      The Foreskin and the Hindsight, The Washington Post Magazine, January 10

      DOROTHY SPEARS

      Labor Day Weekend, Epiphany, Fall/Winter

      KATHERINE E. STANDEFER

      Wilderness, CutBank, no. 84

      ELEANOR STANFORD

      Grammar for an Unwritten Language (Cape Verde, West Africa), Kenyon Review, March/April

      DAVID STEVENSON

      A Late and Uninvited Correspondent Responds to Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Alpinist, Winter

      LAURIE STONE

      Montreal, Ascent, August 9

      ROBERT STOTHART

      Magpies, The New England Review, vol. 37, no. 4

      EMILY STRASSER

      Exposure, Colorado Review, Summer

      ABE STREEP

      The Devil Is Loose, The California Sunday Magazine, August 7

      SHEILA GRACE STUEWE

      Star Struck (1982), Hunger Mountain, no. 20

      ANDREW SULLIVAN

      I Used to Be a Human Being, New York, September 19/October 2

      JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN

      Baby Boy Born Birthplace Blues, Oxford American, Winter

      BARRETT SWANSON

      Calling Audibles, Mississippi Review, vol. 43, no. 3

      JESSIE SZALAY

      Sloughing Off, Gulf Coast, vol. 28, no. 2

      JILL TALBOT

      An Eye on the Door, The Normal School, Spring

      ASHLEY P. TAYLOR

      Af
    ter the Essay, Entropy, October 26

      KAITLYN TEER

      Ossification, Fourth Genre, Spring

      KERRY TEMPLE

      What’s Best for Them, Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn

      SALLIE TISDALE

      Gaijin, Conjunctions, no. 66

      TOMMY TOMLINSON

      Our Old Dog, Charlotte, February

      SAMANTHA TUCKER

      Fountain Girls, Ecotone, Fall/Winter

      SARAH VALLANCE

      Heart Attack, Post Road, no. 31

      JESSE MACEO VEGA-FREY

      Pigs, Boston Review, January/February

      SARAH VIREN

      Advise Me, The Iowa Review, vol. 46, no. 1

      SCOTT VOGEL

      Gross Anatomy, Houstonia, December

      ALIA VOLZ

      Chasing Arrows, The New England Review, vol. 37, no. 1

      JULIE MARIE WADE

      Hourglass (III), Southern Humanities Review, vol. 50, nos. 1 & 2

      JERALD WALKER

      Thieves, River Teeth, Spring

      NICOLE WALKER

      Revolution, Barrelhouse, no. 15

      YUNGHSIN WANG

      Body, Esprit, Fall

      KEEMA WATERFIELD

      You Will Find Me in the Starred Sky, Brevity, May

      SARAH M. WELLS

      The Body Is Not a Coffin, Under the Gum Tree, April

      ROSE WHITMORE

      Witness, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter

      JOEL WHITNEY

      Fifty Years of Disquietude, The Baffler, no. 33

      ESTHER K. WILLISON

      Askew, Bellevue Literary Review, Spring

      GARRY WILLS

      My Koran Problem, The New York Review of Books, March 24

      HEATHER GEMMEN WILSON

      Unpinned, River Teeth, Spring

      STEVEN WINEMAN

      Erving and Alice and Sky and Elisabeth, The Cincinnati Review, Winter

      DAVID WOJAHN

      On Hearing That My Poems Were Being Studied in a Distant Place, Blackbird, Spring

      BRENNA WOMER

      Wusthof Silverpoint II 10-Piece Set, Grist, no. 9

      AMY YEE

      Delhi’s Current Flows On, Electric Literature, October 7

      YIN Q

      The Home of Desperate Magic, Apogee, no. 8

      ALISSA YORK

      In Memoriam Pompeius Maximus, Brick, no. 96

      JESS ZIMMERMAN

      A Life in Google Maps, Catapult, September 12

      Notable Special Issues of 2016

      The Antioch Review, “Sex,” ed. Robert S. Fogarty, Winter

      The Baffler, “The Virtue Cartel,” ed. Chris Lehmann, no. 33

      Bellevue Literary Review, “Reconstructions: The Art of Memory,” ed. Danielle Ofri, Fall

      The Bennington Review, “Misbegotten Youth,” ed. Michael Dumanis, Fall/Winter

      Chautauqua, “Americana,” eds. Jill Gerard and Philip Gerard, no. 13

      Conjunctions, “Affinity: The Friendship Issue,” ed. Bradford Morrow, no. 66

      Creative Nonfiction, “Marriage,” ed. Lee Gutkind, Spring

      Daedalus, “What’s New About the Old,” guest ed. Matthew S. Santirocco, Spring

      Ecotone, “The Country & City Issue,” ed. David Gessner, Fall/Winter

     


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