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“Dosas” by Edwidge Danticat first appeared in Sable in spring 2007. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“American Work” by Richard Russo, copyright © 2017 by Richard Russo.
“Fieldwork” by Manuel Muñoz, copyright © 2017 by Manuel Muñoz. By permission of Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists, New York, N.Y. All rights reserved.
“For the Ones Who Put Their Names on the Wall” by Juan Felipe Herrera, copyright © 2017 by Juan Felipe Herrera.
“Trash Food” by Chris Offutt first appeared in the Oxford American. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Some Houses (Various Stages of Dissolve)” by Claire Vaye Watkins, copyright © 2017 by Claire Vaye Watkins, first published in Tales of Two Americas.
“Mobility” by Julia Alvarez, copyright © 2017 by Julia Alvarez. By permission of Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists, New York, N.Y. All rights reserved.
“Youth from Every Quarter” by Kirstin Valdez Quade, copyright © 2016 by Kirstin Valdez Quade.
“Outside” by Kiese Laymon, copyright © 2017 by Kiese Laymon.
“White Debt” by Eula Biss first appeared in The New York Times. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Leander” by Joyce Carol Oates, copyright © 2017 by The Ontario Review, Inc.
“Fault Lines” by Ru Freeman, copyright © 2017 by Ru Freeman.
“We Share the Rain, and Not Much Else” by Timothy Egan, copyright © 2017 by Timothy Egan.
“Blood Brother” by Sarah Smarsh, copyright © 2017 by Sarah Smarsh.
“Hillsides and Flatlands” by Héctor Tobar, copyright © 2017 by Héctor Tobar.
“Invisible Wounds” by Jess Ruliffson, copyright © 2017 by Jess Ruliffson, www.jessruliffson.com.
“How” by Roxane Gay first appeared in Annalemma. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Enough to Lose” by R.S. Deeren, copyright © 2017 by R.S. Deeren.
“To the Man Asleep in Our Driveway Who Might Be Named Phil” by Anthony Doerr, copyright © 2017 by Anthony Doerr. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
“Soup Kitchen” by Annie Dillard, copyright © 2017 by Annie Dillard.
“Howlin’ Wolf” by Kevin Young, copyright © 2017 by Kevin Young. By permission of the author. All rights reserved.
“Looking for a Home” by Karen Russell, copyright © 2016 by Karen Russell.
“Visible City” by Rickey Laurentiis first published in Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Copyright © 2014 by Rickey Laurentiis. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Portion” by Joy Williams, copyright © 2017 by Joy Williams. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
“Apartment 1G” by Nami Mun, copyright © 2017 by Nami Mun.
“Happy” by Brad Watson, copyright © 2017 by Brad Watson.
“A Good Neighbor Is Hard to Find” by Whitney Terrell, copyright © 2017 by Whitney Terrell.
“Here in a State of Tectonic Tension” by Lawrence Joseph first appeared in the London Review of Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Once There Was a Spot” by Larry Watson, copyright © 2017 by Larry Watson.
“Hurray for Losers” by Dagoberto Gilb, copyright © 2017 by Dagoberto Gilb.
“La Ciudad Mágica” by Patricia Engel, copyright © 2017 by Patricia Engel.
“American Arithmetic” by Natalie Diaz was first published at Poem-a-Day for the Academy of American Poets. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Worthless Servant” by Ann Patchett first appeared in Not Less Than Everything: Catholic Writers on Heroes of Conscience, from Joan of Arc to Oscar Romero, edited by Catherine Wolff. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins.
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