The Best American Essays 2014
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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.