Introduction * A Fat Man Story: ANDER MONSON on HL Mencken's "A Forgotten Anniversary" * MARCIA ALDRICH on Bernard Cooper Invisible Engineering: The Fine Art of Revising: "The Fine Art of Sighing" * MARYA HORNBACHER on What an Essay is Not * KRISTEN RADTKE on Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil" * Majestic Ruins: ROBIN HEMLEY on The Work of James Agee * MARGOT SINGER on Relics, Alchemy, and Primo Levi's "Chromium" * ROBERT ATWAN: The Assault on Prose: John Crowe Ransom, New Criticism, and the Status of the Essay * LUCAS MANN: On Writing Young * MATT DUBE on Joan Didion, Repo Man, and a '76 Malibu * MARK EHLING: "Two Clowns on Tarkovsky" * T CLUTCH FLEISCHMANN Wants You to Read Samuel Delany * KATI STANDEFER on the Mysterious Leslie Ryan and the Structure of a Trauma Narrative * JULIE LAUTERBACH-COLBY on Arianne Zwartjes' "This Suturing of Wounds and Words" and Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel's "Cannulated Screw" * Living Within the Ellipses: CÉSAR DIAZ on Ilan Stavans' book On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language * SEAN LOVELACE on Augusto Monterroso's "Fecundity" * SEAN PRENTISS on Charles Bowden's "Torch Song" * EMILY DEPRANG on Joan Didion: On the Morning After My Twenties * Email from BONNIE J. ROUGH * STEVEN BARTHELME: Talent and Fifty Cents * ALISON HAWTHORN DEMING on Julian Barnes * STEVEN CHURCH on Tom Junod's "The Falling Man" * BETHANY MAILE: We Sought But Couldn't Find - Coming Up Empty in David Shields' "Death is the Mother of Beauty" * GENINE LENTINE on Michael Cunningham & the Nemesis * Movie Quotes as Misery: DAVID LEGAULT on Claudia Rankine's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" * CASSANDRA KIRCHER: On E.B. White, Adoption, and Writing Hybrid Reviews * JONI TEVIS on the Long Lyric Essay * MICHAEL MARTONE: More or Less: the Camouflage Schemes of the Fictive Essay * JOHN D'AGATA: The Essays of Ansel Adams: An Allegory * MEEHAN CRIST's 10 Thoughts on Elision * CRAIG REINBOLD: John D'Agata Breaks Rules, Windows * NED STUCKEY-FRENCH: Time for a New Essay - Eric Walrond's "On Being Black" * THOMAS MIRA Y LOPEZ on Donald Hall's "Out the Window" * JILL TALBOT on The VanMeteresque * DANIELLE DEULEN on the Virtues of Drowning: Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water * COLIN RAFFERTY on Sherman Alexie's "My Encounters With the Homeless People of the Pacific Northwest" * JOHN T. PRICE: On Hoagland, Animal Obsession, and the Courage of Simile * MAYA L. KAPOOR on Writing Trout * CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO: On Long Winters, Short Essays, and a Sky that Stretches Forever * MEGAN KIMBLE on Wendell Berry and Why I'm Not Going to Buy A Smartphone * BRIAN DOYLE: It is a Shaggy World, Studded with Gardens * PETER JAY SHIPPY: Angle On * NICOLE WALKER on Rebecca Campbell's Thick Paint * PAUL LISICKY on The Fugue, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother, DFW, and the Resistance to the One Thing * ALISO STINE on Street Art * BRIAN OLIU on The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker * PAM HOUSTON on Rick Reilly's "Need a Fourth" from Sports Illustrated, March 31, 1997 * DAVE MONDY on Jim Bouton * PHILLIP LOPATE on A Little-Known Gem by Max Beerbohm * JOY CASTRO on Margery Latimer's "The New Freedom": A Manifesto of the Modernist as a Young Woman * AMY BENSON on Eliot Weinberger's "Wrens" * WENDY RAWLINGS on Natalia Ginzburg's The Little Virtues * PATRICK MADDEN on Charles Lamb's "New Year's Eve" * ELENA PASSARELLO on the Book of Days * PATRICIA VIGDERMAN on Alexander Stille * RYAN VAN METER on Endings.