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    The Best American Essays 2013

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      Imagination: Powers and Perils, Raritan, Fall.

      C. RONALD EDWARDS

      The Coffin Handles Were Stalks of Wheat, Post Road, no. 22.

      JOHN M. EDWARDS

      Who Is This Charlie Sands?, Hack Writers, March.

      BARBARA EHRENREICH

      The Animal Cure, The Baffler, no. 19.

      SUE EISENFELD

      North River Roux, Deep Waters, June.

      JOSEPH EPSTEIN

      Old Age and Other Laughs, Commentary, March.

      KRISTINE S. ERVIN

      Cleaving To, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring.

      BERNADETTE ESPOSITO

      Speck of Light, Conjunctions, no. 58.

      MATT EVANS

      Burn All the Liars, Morning News, February 22.

      ANNE FADIMAN

      The World’s Most Southerly Periodical, Harvard Review, no. 43.

      JIM FAIRHALL

      Nui Khe Revisited, Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring.

      AMANDA M. FAISON

      A Place at the Table, 5280, August.

      ANDREW FARKAS

      Somewhere Better Than This Place, Florida Review, Summer.

      SHAWN FAWSON

      Belongings Of, South Loop Review, no. 14.

      GEORGE FEIFER

      Okinawa 66 Years Later, Collier’s, February.

      GARY FINCKE

      Plant Voices, Tampa Review, nos. 43 & 44.

      CAROL FIRSTMAN

      Liminal Scorpions, Colorado Review, Summer.

      JOHN FISCHER

      The Last Place You Ever Live, Guernica, September 17.

      SETH FISCHER

      Notes from a Unicorn, The Rumpus, February 24.

      RYAN FLAHERTY

      Craquelure, Conjunctions, no. 58.

      PATRICIA FOSTER

      The Red Chair, Southern Humanities Review, Fall.

      PORTER FOX

      The Glass Filter, Poets & Writers, September/October.

      JONATHAN FRANZEN

      A Rooting Interest, The New Yorker, February 13 & 20.

      IAN FRAZIER

      A Farewell to Yarns, Outside, November.

      BONITA FRIEDMAN

      The Watcher, Image, no. 70.

      MARY FUNK

      Killdeer, Oregon Quarterly, Summer.

      J. MALCOLM GARCIA

      What Happens After Sixteen Years in Prison, McSweeney’s, no. 41.

      WILLIAM GASS

      Narrative Sentences, Yale Review, January.

      ATUL GAWANDE

      Big Med, The New Yorker, August 13 & 20.

      ROXANE GAY

      To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.

      DIANA HUME GEORGE

      On Denying Denial, a Meditation, Chautauqua, no. 9.

      PHILIP GERARD

      Indivisible, Our State, November.

      DAVID GESSNER

      Clappers, Ecotone, Spring.

      SARAH GILBERT

      The Good Fight, Oregon Humanities, Summer.

      AARON GILBREATH

      ’ra-di-kel, Hotel Amerika, Spring.

      A. A. GILL

      Can This Wedding Be Saved?, Vanity Fair, September.

      MALCOLM GLADWELL

      Slackers, The New Yorker, July 30.

      ALBERT GOLDBARTH

      The Hamza, Boulevard, Spring.

      FRANCISCO GOLDMAN

      The Unresilient, The Believer, September.

      CAMILLE GOODISON

      Twelve Days, Relief, Spring.

      JESSE GOOLSBY

      Waiting for Red Dawn, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.

      ADAM GOPNIK

      The Caging of America, The New Yorker, January 30.

      MARY GORDON

      The Taste of Almonds, Ploughshares, Fall.

      SARAH GORHAM

      Sentimental à la Carte, Alimentum, no. 13, Winter.

      TONY GORRY

      War Stories, War, Literature, and the Arts, no. 24.

      MAX GRAY

      No Stranger, Jelly Bucket, no. 3.

      AINE GREANEY

      Green Card, Amoskeag, Spring.

      VICKY GRUT

      Into the Valley, Harvard Review, no. 43.

      AARON GWYN

      Ostrander at the Door, Missouri Review, Summer.

      PAMELA HAAG

      Death by Treacle, American Scholar, Spring.

      DONALD HALL

      Out the Window, The New Yorker, January 23.

      PATRICIA HAMPL

      F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Essays from the Edge, American Scholar, Spring.

      JEAN HARPER

      Colic, Florida Review, Winter.

      STEPHEN HARRIGAN

      Where Is My Home?, Texas Monthly, March.

      KATE HARRIS

      The Contours of Cold, Cutbank, no. 77.

      STEVEN HARVEY

      The Open Door, Hunger Mountain, no. 17.

      CHRIS HEDGES

      War Is Betrayal, Boston Review, July/August.

      DAISY HERNANDEZ

      Before Love, Memory, Fourth Genre, Fall.

      PETER HESSLER

      Identity Parade, The New Yorker, May 21.

      JENNIFER BOWEN HICKS

      Attention, North American Review, Summer.

      GRAHAM HILLARD

      Honor Bound, Memphis, September.

      EDWARD HOAGLAND

      The Gravity of Falling, American Scholar, Winter.

      ADINA HOFFMAN

      Imagining the Real, Raritan, Spring.

      EVA HOLLAND

      Not an Ike and Tina Thing, Vela Magazine, March 6.

      KAREN HOLMBERG

      Songs and Calls of the Human Species, New England Review, vol. 33, no. 1.

      TERRENCE HOLT

      The Perfect Code, Granta, Summer.

      JOE HOOVER

      SJ, Occupy My Heart, Jesuit Post, February 6.

      NICK HORNBY

      My Patron, The Believer, February.

      PAM HOUSTON

      Corn Maze, Hunger Mountain, no. 17.

      PATRICK HRUBY

      Game Over, Sports on Earth, August 29.

      EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH

      Reading Under the Table, Threepenny Review, Summer.

      HUA HSU

      The Death Star, Lucky Peach, Fall.

      AUSTIN L. HUGHES

      The Folly of Scientism, New Atlantis, Fall.

      EVAN HUGHES

      Consider the Gentrifier, Tin House, no. 53.

      MARIA HUMMEL

      Sparrow, Narrative, Winter.

      ROCHELLE HURT

      A Disbeliever in Limbo, Image, no. 74.

      SIRI HUSTVEDT

      Freud’s Playground, Salmagundi, Spring/Summer.

      PICO IYER

      On Not Eating, Portland, Winter.

      LAWRENCE JACKSON

      The Ledger, n + 1, Summer.

      ANJALI JAIN, MD

      The Social History, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, November.

      LESLIE JAMISON

      Lost Boys, A Public Space, no. 15.

      WES JAMISON

      The Secret Garden, South Loop Review, no. 13.

      MELANIE JANISSE

      Detroit, Bayou, no. 57.

      MYRA JEHLEN

      How Georges Simenon Knew Where to Place the Couch, Raritan, Summer.

      JAC JEMC

      Notes Toward a Definition of Luck, Hobart, no. 13.

      TREBBE JOHNSON

      Gaze Even Here, Orion, November/December.

      TOM JUNOD

      The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama, Esquire, August.

      ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU

      With My Daughter, Hannah Arendt, and the City of Futures, Hotel Amerika, Spring.

      LAURE KATSAROS

      A New World of Love, Massachusetts Review, Fall.

      LEON KATZ

      A Year with Alice B. Toklas, Yale Review, July.

      GARRET KEIZER

      A Harmony in Living, Lapham’s Quarterly, WINTER.

      JESSE KELLERMAN

      Deviated: A Memoir, Commentary, May.

      PHILIP KELLY

      Painting the Summer Palace of t
    he Queen, The Sun, February.

      GILLIAM KENDALL

      Easily Led, The Sun, November.

      THOMAS E. KENNEDY

      A Night in Tunisia, Epoch, vol. 61, no. 2.

      TIMOTHY KENNY

      Dark Nights and Feral Dogs, Green Mountain Review, vol. 25, no. 2.

      HARRISON SCOTT KEY

      The Imaginary Farm, Oxford American, no. 77.

      COLLEEN KINDER

      Blot Out, Creative Nonfiction, Spring.

      HEATHER KING

      Of All the Mothers in the World, The Sun, August.

      JOE KLEIN

      How to Die, Time, June 11.

      GWENDOLYN KNAPP

      The Mother Load, Southeast Review, vol. 30, no. 1.

      SANDRA KOBRIN

      The Hitler Fund, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.

      ANDREA KOTT

      The Guns, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 4.

      JANE KRAMER

      A Reporter at Odds, The New Yorker, July 23.

      DIANE KRAYNAK

      Lazarus, Zone 3, Spring.

      DANIEL KRIEGER

      Going Gently into That Good Night, Narratively, September.

      CONNIE KUHNS

      Last Days in Cheyenne, Geist, Spring.

      MAXINE KUMIN

      Love in Wartime, American Scholar, Autumn.

      BOB KUNZINGER

      Baby on a Windshield, Southern Humanities Review, Winter.

      KIM DANA KUPPERMAN

      Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, Hunger Mountain, December.

      KELLY KURT

      Death’s Yellow Door, This Land, February 15.

      AMBER KUZMICK

      Famine and Feast, Alimentum, no. 13, Winter.

      MATT LABASH

      The Meme Generation, Weekly Standard, June 4.

      ROBERT LACY

      Saturdays at the Paramount, Sewanee Review, Summer.

      JHUMPA LAHIRI

      My Life’s Sentences, New York Times Sunday Review, March 18.

      ANNA LEAHY

      Half-Skull Days, The Pinch, Spring.

      MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR

      The Comfort Zone, Narrative.

      MELISSA LEAVITT

      Show Off, Willow Springs, Spring.

      DAVID LEGAULT

      Significant Screams, Barrelhouse, no. 10.

      NATON LESLIE

      All Around the World, North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 77, nos. 2 & 3.

      J. D. LEWIS

      Tell Me, Cimarron Review, Spring.

      ALAN LIGHTMAN

      The Temporary Universe, Tin House, no. 51.

      BRANDON LINGLE

      Queen’s Creek, Guernica, August 30.

      MEL LIVATINO

      Wintry Rooms of Love, Notre Dame Magazine, Summer.

      SONJA LIVINGSTON

      Our Lady of the Roses, Fourth Genre, Spring.

      PRISCILLA LONG

      Studio, Under the Sun, Summer.

      PHILLIP LOPATE

      City Essay Films, Normal School, Fall.

      JESSICA LOVE

      Reading Fast and Slow, American Scholar, Spring.

      DAVID LUMPKIN

      Church Is Wherever You Are, Oxford American, no. 77.

      SEAN LYSAGHT

      Sleeping with Books, New Hibernia Review, Summer.

      STEVE MACONE

      Rites of Passage, American Scholar, Summer.

      PATRICK MADDEN

      Fixity, Southwest Review, vol. 97, no. 2.

      MARGARET MALONE

      A Crooked Still Life, Oregon Humanities, Fall/Winter.

      STEPHEN MARCHE

      Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?, The Atlantic, May.

      FRANCESCA MARI

      The Clock Test, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.

      DEBRA MARQUART

      Losing the Meadow, Alligator Juniper, 2012.

      PEYTON MARSHALL

      The Other Hemisphere, Blackbird, vol. 11, no. 1.

      ANDY MARTIN

      Hair Piece: Derrida in the Wilderness, Raritan, Summer.

      CLANCY MARTIN

      My Old Man, Harper’s Magazine, June.

      ALEXANDRIA MARZANO-LESNEVICH

      Origins of a Murder, Oxford American, no. 78.

      DAVID MASELLO

      Addicted to a Younger Man, Salon.com, August 27.

      JASON MASTALER

      Shadow Walk, Harvard Review, no. 42.

      HILARY MASTERS

      Amelia Earhart’s Last Landing, Sewanee Review, Summer.

      NEIL MATHISON

      Wooden Boat, Blue Lyra Review, vol. 1, no. 2.

      REBECCA MCCLANAHAN

      Ginkgo Song, Kenyon Review, Summer.

      MAC MCCLELLAND

      Shelf Lives, Mother Jones, March/April.

      DEIRDRE MCCLOSKY

      Happyism, New Republic, June 28.

      MAUREEN MCCOY

      Brother Joseph, Wapsipinicon Almanac, no. 19.

      THOMAS MCGONIGLE

      Then, Notre Dame Review, Summer/Fall.

      MICHAEL MCGREGOR

      A Gyroscope on the Island of Love, Image, no. 70.

      JOHN MCPHEE

      Editors & Publisher, The New Yorker, July 2.

      DANIEL MENDELSOHN

      Unsinkable, The New Yorker, April 16.

      DAPHNE MERKIN

      We’re All Helmut Newton Now, Elle, October.

      CLAIRE MESSUD

      The Road to Damascus, Granta, Winter.

      KIMBERLY MEYER

      Demeter and Persephone in the Heartland, Kenyon Review, Fall.

      CAROLYN MILLER

      Arts and Science, Missouri Review, Fall.

      DAVID MILLER

      The Four Seasons Mini Almanac, Wapsipinicon Almanac, no. 19.

      SAM J. MILLER

      The Luke Letters, Upstreet, no. 8.

      TONI MIROSEVICH

      This Once Bright Thing, Hayden’s Ferry Review, no. 51.

      DEBRA MONROE

      Gray Area, Guernica, April 1.

      AMY MONTICELLO

      The Other Woman, Iron Horse Literary Review, vol. 14, no. 3.

      DINTY W. MOORE

      Buried Alive, Zone 3, Fall.

      COREY MORRIS

      Carp River, Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall.

      SANDELL MORSE

      Hiding, Ascent, August 12.

      SCOTT NADELSON

      I’m Your Man, Iron Horse Literary Review, vol. 14, no. 1.

      ALEXIS NELSON

      On Love and Memory, Normal School, Spring.

      JACOB NEWBERRY

      French Suite, Hunger Mountain, no. 17.

      Summer, Granta, Winter.

      ROB NIXON

      Baboon, Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring.

      NANCY NORDENSON

      Prelude, Lake Effect, Spring.

      MARK O’CONNOR

      Holy Ghosts, Massachusetts Review, Winter.

      SARAH A. ODISHOO

      Eat Me: Instructions from the Unseen, Zone 3, Spring.

      ARIKA OKRENT

      Body Language, Lapham’s Quarterly, Spring.

      BRIAN OLIU

      Friday the 13th, Los Angeles Review, Fall.

      W. SCOTT OLSEN

      Tag, Tampa Review, nos. 43 & 44.

      RICHARD O’MARA

      Brothers, Sewanee Review, Summer.

      MARK OPPENHEIMER

      Who Needs Poetry?, New York Times Magazine, September 16.

      PETER ORNER

      Renters, Fifth Wednesday, Spring.

      LAUREN C. OSTBERG

      On Hair, So to Speak, Spring.

      DAVID OWEN

      Scars, The New Yorker, March 19.

      ADRIANA PARAMO

      Oil Spills Remind Me of Him, Compass Rose, vol. 12.

      ALAN MICHAEL PARKER

      Beach House as Nostalgia Museum, The Believer, November/December.

      ANN PATCHETT

      The Sense of an Ending, Vogue, September.

      ANDREW PAYTON

      Family Medicine, Bayou, no. 57.

      GAIL PECK

      Child Waiting, Apple Valley Review, Spring.

      JEN PERCY

      The Guinea Pig Lady,
    Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.

      JENNIFER PERCY

      Bodies, Witness, Spring.

      JED PERL

      Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics, The Baffler, no. 20.

      ANN PETERS

      The House on the Ledge, Southwest Review, vol. 97, no. 1.

     


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