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by John Jeremiah Sullivan


  CONGER BEASLEY, JR.

  Wind Dancers, New Letters, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.

  ELIZABETH BENEDICT

  My Inheritance, Salmagundi, Winter.

  CHARLES BERNSTEIN

  Disfiguring Abstraction, Critical Inquiry, Spring.

  JEREMY BERNSTEIN

  A Song for Molly, American Scholar, Winter.

  LEO BERSANI

  “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” Critical Inquiry, Autumn.

  WARNER BERTHOFF

  Memories of Okinawa, Sewanee Review, Winter.

  ELLIS J. BIDERSON

  A Complete Thought, Tampa Review, no. 45/46.

  CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO

  Phrenology: An Attempt, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter.

  KATE JARVIK BIRCH

  One More Artificial Organ, Indiana Review, Winter.

  SVEN BIRKERTS

  One Long Sentence, Threepenny Review, Summer.

  EULA BISS

  Sentimental Medicine, Harper’s Magazine, January.

  BUZZ BISSINGER

  My Gucci Addiction, GQ, April.

  LUCIENNE S. BLOCH

  The Machine and I, Southwest Review, vol. 98, no. 2.

  AMY BOESKY

  The Ghost Writes Back, KROnline, January 16.

  MARC BOOKMAN

  The Confessions of Innocent Men, The Atlantic, August.

  MARIANNE BORUCH

  Boredom, Yale Review, January.

  JAMES BRAZIEL

  The Ballad of JD, Southern Humanities Review, Fall.

  KEVIN BROCKMEIER

  Dead Last Is a Kind of Second Place, Georgia Review, Winter.

  CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN

  Islands of Our Years, Sewanee Review, Fall.

  GARRETT J. BROWN

  Galileo in the Uecker Seats: Reflections on Failed Observations, Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer.

  LAURA LYNN BROWN

  Fifty Things About My Mother, Iowa Review, Winter.

  WILLIAM BROYLES

  My Son and the Bear, Outside, June.

  ERICK BRUCKER

  How to Get Home in Arequipa, Jelly Bucket, no. 4.

  ROBERT S. BRUNK

  A Samuel Beckett Song, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall.

  FRANK BURES

  The Secret Lives of Stories, Poets & Writers, January/February.

  KATIE BURGESS

  Rahab’s Thread, Pembroke Magazine, no. 45.

  GABRIELLE C. BURTON

  East of East, Southern Indiana Review, Fall.

  KATY BUTLER

  A Full Life to the End, Wall Street Journal, September 7–8.

  BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

  Crimes Against a Wrecker Driver, Southern Review, Spring.

  MARY CAPPELLO

  My Secret, Private Errand (An Essay/Memoir on Love and Theft), Salmagundi, Fall.

  RON CAPPS

  Writing My Way Home, Delmarva Review, October.

  CHARLES CARAMELLO

  Henry James Goes to War, Denver Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 4.

  EMILY ARNASON CASEY

  Laughing Water, Upstreet, no. 9.

  MAURICIO CASTILLO

  Do Not Brainstorm!, American Journal of Neuroradiology, July.

  ALICIA CATT

  On Saliva, 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, vol. 1, no. 2.

  MARY ANN CAWS

  Thinking North, Raritan, Winter.

  CHRIS CHAN

  It’s Time We Demanded More, Gilbert Magazine, September–October.

  KATHLEEN CHAPLIN

  The Death Knock, New England Review, vol. 34, no. 1.

  JAMES M. CHESBRO

  From the Rust and Sawdust, Superstition Review, Fall.

  JOSEPH CHINNOCK

  Legally Ted, Gettysburg Review, Spring.

  JILL CHRISTMAN

  Borrowed Babies, Iron Horse, vol. 15, no. 3.

  KELLY CLANCY

  Who Are Not, but Could Be, Massachusetts Review, Summer.

  BRUCE COHEN

  (Closed) American Barber Shop, Upstreet, no. 9.

  CHARLES COMEY

  The Love We Use, The Point, Fall.

  ELI CONNAUGHTON

  Sisters, Carolina Quarterly, Spring.

  KATIE CORTESE

  Winning Like a Girl, Sport Literate, vol. 8, no. 2.

  TRACI COX

  Missed, Masters Review, no. 2.

  PAUL CRENSHAW

  Work, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter.

  MARIAN CROTTY

  It’s New Year’s Eve, and This Is Dubai, New England Review, vol. 34, no. 2.

  PATTI CROUCH

  Sea Change, Bellingham Review, Spring.

  JOHN CROWLEY

  Squeak and Gibber, Lapham’s Quarterly, Fall.

  BRENT CUNNINGHAM

  Last Meals, Lapham’s Quarterly, Fall.

  RENEE E. D’AOUST

  You Move Away. You Move Closer, Trestle Creek Review, no. 27.

  ADAM DAVIES

  The Loneliest Lemur on Earth, Sarasota, September.

  SARAH DE LEEUW

  Soft Shouldered, Prism, Fall.

  JEREMY DENK

  Every Good Boy Does Fine, The New Yorker, April 8.

  MARCIA DESANCTIS

  The Slow Language of Sculpture, The Fast Language of Words, The Millions, April 17.

  BONNIE DEVET

  Prince Christian Sound: Iceberg Canyon of the North, hackwriters .com, May.

  JAQUIRA DIAZ

  Girl Hood: On (Not) Finding Yourself in Books, Her Kind, January.

  MORRIS DICKSTEIN

  My Life in Fiction, Threepenny Review, Fall.

  BRIAN DILLON

  Attention! Photography and Sidelong Discovery, Aperture, Summer.

  KRISTIN DOMBEK

  How to Quit, n+1, no. 15.

  BRIAN DOYLE

  Dawn and Mary, The Sun, August.

  REGINA DREXLER

  Stealing Mannequins, West Branch, no. 72.

  BRIAN DUCHANEY

  The Man I Killed, War, Literature, & the Arts, no. 25.

  PETE DUVAL

  Adhesion, Massachusetts Review, Spring.

  CAROL EDGARIAN

  Savages, Narrative Magazine, Stories of the Week 2012–2013.

  JOHN M. EDWARDS

  A Trace of Thrace: A Balkan Adventure, Europe Revisited, October.

  MICKEY EDWARDS

  What Is the Common Good? The Case for Transcending Partisanship, Daedalus, Spring.

  PIA Z. EHRHARDT

  The Owls of Solomon Place, Oxford American, no. 82.

  JONATHAN FINK

  The Holy Land Experience, Southwest Review, vol. 98, no. 3.

  CAROLE FIRSTMAN

  Objects of Affection, South Dakota Review, no. 50.

  BRUCE FLEMING

  Small Hard Things, Yale Review, April.

  ROBERT LONG FOREMAN

  Guts, The Cossack, Winter.

  PATRICIA FOSTER

  Contingencies: Iowa City, IA, Antioch Review, Fall.

  In Transit, The Sun, January.

  THOMAS FRANK

  Academy Fight Song, The Baffler, no. 23.

  IAN FRAZIER

  The One that Got Away, Outside, September.

  CAMILLIA FREEMAN

  Cartesian Anxiety in a Bleeding I, Indiana Review, Winter.

  PATRICK FRENCH

  After the War, Granta, Autumn (no. 125).

  BONNIE FRIEDMAN

  The Discipline of the Notebook, Image, no. 76.

  MOLLY GALLENTINE

  Jell-O, CutBank, no. 78.

  J. MALCOLM GARCIA

  My Middle Age, Tampa Review, no. 45/46.

  PHILIP GERARD

  Freedom Fighter, Our State, March.

  MERRILL JOAN GERBER

  The Found Desk, Salmagundi, Winter.

  DAVID GESSNER

  Meet the Keatles, Oxford American, no. 81.

  NANCY GEYER

  Black Plank, Georgia Review, Spring.

  DAGOBERTO GILB

  Pride and Prejudice, Texas
Monthly, February.

  GARY GILDNER

  Tearing Down the Barn, Georgia Review, Fall.

  D. GILSON

  On Faggot: An Etymology, Indiana Review, Summer.

  COREY GINSBERG

  Miami Redux, Third Coast, Fall.

  PETER GODFREY-SMITH

  On Being an Octopus, Boston Review, May/June.

  ANNE GOLDMAN

  Souvenirs of Stone, Southwest Review, vol. 98, no. 3.

  LUCY BRYAN GREEN

  Melt, So to Speak, Spring.

  ALVIN GREENBERG

  Visiting the Maharaja, Ascent, August 7.

  KARL TARO GREENFELD

  My Daughter’s Homework, The Atlantic, October.

  GORDON GRICE

  A Stiller Ground, This Land, November 15.

  GAIL GRIFFIN

  The Messenger, Chattahoochee Review, Fall/Winter.

  ROBERT HAHN

  Becoming Unknown, Southern Humanities Review, Spring.

  BRIAN HALL

  Study Bible: The Great Commission, Memoir, no. 12.

  JEFFREY HAMMOND

  Night Watch, Gettysburg Review, Winter.

  SILAS HANSEN

  Blank Slate, Colorado Review, Spring.

  JIM HARRISON

  Courage and Survival, Brick, Winter.

  KATHRYN HARRISON

  Incest: The Epilogue, More, October.

  STEVEN HARVEY

  The Vanishing Point, Southern Review, Winter.

  LINDA M. HASSELSTROM

  Rabid, New Letters, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.

  ROBIN HEMLEY

  The Writer Across the Table, Southern Humanities Review, Fall.

  BEN HEWITT

  Lessons from the Hayfield, Yankee, July/August.

  PATRICK HICKS

  Treblinka, Beecher’s, no. 3.

  KARRIE HIGGINS

  Partial Match, Diagram, September 1.

  J. A. HIJIYA

  Numbers, Raritan, Spring.

  GRAHAM HILLARD

  The Complainers: Online with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 4.

  AMANDA HILLES

  Breathless, Midwestern Gothic, Fall.

  JEN HIRT

  Hour Thirteen, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter.

  EDWARD HOAGLAND

  On Friendship, American Scholar, Winter.

  ALYSHA HOFFA

  Colorless Life: An Essay in Grayscale, Southern Indiana Review, Spring.

  LINDA HOGAN

  Ways of the Cranes, Image, Fall (no. 79).

  B. J. HOLLARS

  Death by Refrigerator, Normal School, Fall.

  SARAH HOLLENBECK

  A Goldmine, Dogwood, no. 12.

  CLAUDIA HONEYWELL

  Street Life, War, Literature, & the Arts, no. 25.

  MARY HOOD

  Breaking It, Georgia Review, Spring.

  MARYA HORNBACHER

  Strip, Fourth Genre, Spring.

  CAROLINE HORWITZ

  Bare, Summerset Review, September 15.

  GAIL HOSKING

  The ABCs of Parting, Post Road, no. 24.

  EDWARD HOWER

  What Can You Do, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer.

  EWA HRYNIEWICZ-YARBROUGH

  Europa, Europa, Agni, no. 77.

  SONYA HUBER

  Love and Industry, A Midwestern Workbook, Terrain.org, Winter.

  BARBARA HURD

  Fracking: A Fable, Brevity, March.

  SAMUEL HYNES

  Keeley Rules or How to Play Tennis on Social Security, Sewanee Review, Spring.

  JUYANNE JAMES

  Table Scraps, Bayou, no. 60.

  KRISTOPHER JANSMA

  Why Do We Write? Slice, no. 12.

  CARREN JAO

  Head Games, The Magazine, August 1.

  ALEX R. JONES

  Matinee, Santa Monica Review, Fall.

  SHANA CAMPBELL JONES

  Family Portraits, with Dogs, Barely South Review, Spring.

  ANNE KAIER

  Maple Lane, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer.

  BETTYE KEARSE

  Destination Jim Crow, River Teeth, Fall.

  GARRET KEIZER

  Walt, Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer.

  THOMAS E. KENNEDY

  My White House Days, New Letters, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.

  TIM KEPPEL

  My Father’s Hands, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter.

  SEAN KILPATRICK

  The Buff Ruins, Hobart, no. 14.

  BARBARA KINGSOLVER

  Where It Begins, Orion, November/December.

  JUDITH KITCHEN

  Coda, Water-Stone Review, no. 16.

  RACHEL KOLB

  Seeing the Speed of Sound, Stanford, March/April.

  JACQUELINE KOLOSOV

  Dust, Light, Life, Bellevue Literary Review, Spring.

  The Inner Life of Pearl: Vermeer’s Alchemy, Fifth Wednesday, Fall.

  MARY KORAL

  Lock Up, Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer.

  ROBERT KOSTUCK

  The Birds of South America, Zone 3, Fall.

  HARI KUNZRU

  Stalkers, Granta, Autumn (no. 125).

  KIM DANA KUPPERMAN

  Strangers on a Plane, Normal School, Fall.

  MATT LABASH

  The Last 24 Notes, Weekly Standard, September 16.

  ROBERT LACEY

  On the Dangers of Hero Worship, North Dakota Quarterly, Spring/Summer.

  DON LAGO

  Three Rings, Gettysburg Review, Summer.

  ELLEN LAMBERT

  “Death Will Abide”: A Meditation on an Adolescent Suicide, Raritan, Summer.

  ALEXANDER LANDFAIR

  Facebook of the Dead, Missouri Review, Fall.

  WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE

  What Lies Beneath, Vanity Fair, October.

  LANCE LARSEN

  The Room in Which I Write, Southwest Review, vol. 98, no. 2.

  PETER LASALLE

  Au Train de Vie, Missouri Review, Summer.

  KIESE LAYMON

  You Are the Second Person, Guernica, June 17.

  DAVID LAZAR

  Playing Ourselves: Pseudo-Documentary and Person, Antioch Review, Spring.

  JACKSON LEARS

  Get Happy!!, The Nation, November 25.

  MICHELLE LEGRO

  A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes, The Believer, May.

  DANIEL W. LEHMAN

  “Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw”: Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction, River Teeth, Fall.

  SARAH K. LENZ

  Lightning Flowers, Colorado Review, Fall/Winter.

  NATON LESLIE

  My Criminal Past, Under the Sun, Summer.

  JONATHAN LETHEM

  Here’s Looking at You, Vogue, November.

  STEVEN LEVINGSTON

  My Drama, Washington Post Magazine, April 7.

  ARIEL LEWITON

  Holiday, Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter.

  ALAN LIGHTMAN

  Symmetrical Universe, Orion, March/April.

  MEL LIVATINO

  Dogged by the Dark, Notre Dame Magazine, Winter.

  SONJA LIVINGSTON

  Mad Love: The Ballad of Fred & Allie, Creative Nonfiction, no. 48.

  BETH LOFFREDA

  Dinosaur Monument, High Desert Journal, Spring.

  LINDA LOGAN

  Selfless, New York Times Magazine, April 28.

  PHILLIP LOPATE

  How I Look at Movies, Normal School, Fall.

  FRANKIE LOPES

  Room for My Knees, Post Road, no. 26.

  NANCY LUDMERER

  Kritios Boy, Literal Latte, Winter.

  SARAH MACARAEG

  Namesake, TruthOut, May 31.

  DOUG MACK

  Go Your Own Way, The Morning News, May 1.

  KAREN MANER

  Hugo, Colorado Review, Summer.

  JAMES MARCUS

  Arrive Without Traveling: India, Antioch Review, Fall.<
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  ANN MARKLE

  You Never Expect the Call, Under the Sun, Summer.

  MIRIAM MARKOWITZ

  Here Comes Everybody, The Nation, December 9.

  LEE MARTIN

  Spook, 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, vol. 1, no. 1.

  DAVID MASELLO

  The Boys Who Sailed Away, Fine Art Connoisseur, June.

 

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