The Best American Essays 2013 (53 page)

D
ANIEL
E. S
LOTNIK

Patient Zero,
Narratively
, November.

M
ARK
S
LOUKA

The Academy of Sciences,
Ploughshares
, Fall.

J
ANNA
M
ALAMUD
S
MITH

An Absorbing Errand,
The Sun
, September.

L
ISA
S
OLOD

Black Boots for the End of the World,
Huffington Post
, November 28.

K
RISTINE
S
OMERVILLE

Camera Artist: The Portraiture of Cecil Beaton,
Missouri Review
, Winter.

M
AYA
S
ONENBERG

My Mother’s Closet,
South Loop Review
, no. 13.

A
NA
M
ARIA
S
PAGNA

Where You’d Rather Be,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

W
ILLARD
S
PIEGELMAN

Senior Reading,
New Haven Review
, Summer.

E
LEANOR
S
TANFORD

Metamorphosis: Six Studies,
Indiana Review
, Summer.

B
RIAN
J
AY
S
TANLEY

A Sense of All Sorrows,
Pleiades
, Summer.

G
EORGE
S
TEINER

Fragments (Somewhat Charred),
Kenyon Review
, Summer.

J
EFFREY
S
TEINGARTEN

Turning Japanese,
Vogue
, February.

J. D
AVID
S
TEVENS

For Janet, at Forty,
Gettysburg Review
, Spring.

A
NGELA
S
TEWART

Rot,
Gettysburg Review
, Summer.

A
LISON
S
TINE

The Last Hotel,
Zone 3
, Fall.

P
ETER
S
TINE

Detroit Wrecks, 1982,
Antioch Review
, Spring.

S
EBASTIAN
S
TOCKMAN

The Problem with Sportswriting,
The Millions
, August 6.

E
LIZABETH
S
TONE

Husband Emeritus,
Gettysburg Review
, Spring.

E
MILY
S
TONE

What Happens: Only You Know the Magic Words to Make it Possible,
North American Review
, Spring.

S
ARAH
P
AYNE
S
TUART

Pilgrim’s Progress,
The New Yorker
, July 30.

N
ED
S
TUCKEY
-F
RENCH

Don’t Be Cruel: An Argument for Elvis,
Normal School
, Fall.

I
RA
S
UKRUNGRUANG

To Kill a Thought: A Confession,
The Pinch
, Fall.

R
OBERT
S
ULLIVAN

Almanac,
A Public Space
, no. 16.

K
ELLY
S
UNDBERG

Like Mourners’ Bread,
Slice
, no. 10.

C
AROLINE
S
UTTON

Eclipsed,
Southern Humanities Review
, Spring.

P
ATRICK
S
YMMES

Who Pinched My Ride?,
Outside
, February.

T
ERENCE
T
AO

E Pluribus Unum:
From Complexity, Universality,
Daedalus
, Summer.

T
ESS
T
AYLOR

The Waste Land App,
Threepenny Review
, Summer.

K
ERRY
T
EMPLE

My Life in Clothes,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Spring.

P
AUL
T
HEROUX

A Man and His Islands,
Smithsonian
, May.

F
RANCIS
-N
OEL
T
HOMAS

Tea,
New England Review
, vol. 33, no. 1.

K
IM
T
INGLEY

Whisper of the Wild,
New York Times Magazine
, March 18.

A
N
T
RAN

Redshift,
Carolina Quarterly
, Winter.

B
RIAN
T
RAPP

My City in Two Dog Parks,
Black Warrior Review
, Fall/Winter.

J
ASON
T
UCKER

The Least Objectionable Thing,
Southeast Review
, vol. 30, no. 2.

S
PRING
U
LMER

A Short History of Our Flesh and Blood,
Southern Indiana Review
, Spring.

M
ELANIE
U
NRUH

The Place Called Mother,
Post Road
, no. 23.

L
UIS
A
LBERTO
U
RREA

The Mr. Smith Syndrome,
ZYZZYVA
, Fall.

M
ICHELLE
V
ALOIS

Good Form,
Massachusetts Review
, Winter.

J
EFF
V
ANDERMEER

The Art of the Literary Fake (with Violin),
New Haven Review
, Summer.

J
OE
A
NTONIO
V
ARGAS

Shadow Americans,
Time
, June 25.

N
ATASHA
V
ARGAS
-C
OOPER

Hard Blows,
New Inquiry
, August 22.

S
OPHIA
V
ELTFORT

Missing,
Harvard Review
, no. 42.

M
ARIA
V
ENEGAS

The Devil’s Spine,
Ploughshares
, Spring.

P
RIMO
V
ENTELLO

Das Schweinehund,
Carolina Quarterly
, Spring/Summer.

R
OBERT
V
IVIAN

Always a River,
River Teeth
, Fall.

E
MILY
V
IZZO

A Personal History of Dirt,
North American Review
, Summer.

A
NNA
V
ODICKA

As Seen on TV,
Ninth Letter
, Spring/Summer.

M
ATTHEW
V
OLLMER

NeVer ForgeT,
Ecotone
, Spring.

J
ANNA
V
OUGHT

Moments of Snow,
Under the Gum Tree
, October.

W
YN
W
ACHHORST

Crossing the Wide Missouri,
Yale Review
, July.

D
ANIEL
J. W
AKIN

Dispossesed,
New York Times Magazine
, January 15.

J
ERALD
W
ALKER

Captain Love,
River Teeth
, Fall.

N
ICOLE
W
ALKER

Skin of the Earth,
Zone 3
, Fall.

M
ADDY
W
ALSH

Placer County Jail,
Under the Gum Tree
, October.

W
ILLIAM
E
ATON
W
ARNER

On Pointing,
Agni
, no. 75.

S
TEVE
W
ASSERMAN

The Amazon Effect,
The Nation
, June 18.

Z
ACHARY
W
ATTERSON

Open Late Hours,
Post Road
, no. 23.

A
DAM
W
EINSTEIN

Some Remarks on Teeth,
Conjunctions
, no. 58.

S
TEFANIE
W
EISMAN

In Search of E. B.,
Michigan Quarterly Review
, Winter.

S
HEILA
W
ELLER

Suddenly That Summer,
Vanity Fair
, July.

S
ARAH
W
ELLS

Country Boys, City Boys,
River Teeth
, Spring.

C
OLSON
W
HITEHEAD

A Psychotronic Childhood,
The New Yorker
, June 4 & 11.

J
OEL
W
HITNEY

The Paris Review
, the Cold War, and the CIA,
Salon.com
, May 27.

J
ESSICA
W
ILBANKS

Father of Disorder,
Ruminate
, no. 24, Summer.

J
OE
W
ILKINS

Eleven Kinds of Sky,
Orion
, January/February.

B
ROOKE
W
ILLIAMS

Moving Stones,
High Desert Journal
, Fall.

C. K. W
ILLIAMS

On Being Old,
American Poetry Review
, July/August.

F
RANK
W
ILSON

Time Crystals,
Boulevard
, Fall.

J
ASON
W
ILSON

Food for Thought,
Washington Post Magazine
, September 16.

C
HRISTIAN
W
IMAN

Mortify Our Wolves,
American Scholar
, Autumn.

S
HERRY
W
ONG

Dandelion,
Prism
, Fall.

E
RIN
W
OOD

We Scar, We Heal, We Rise,
Anderbo
, n.d.

S
TEPHANIE
W
ORTMAN

Greens,
Southwest Review
, vol. 97, no. 3.

R
OLF
A
LBERT
Y
NGVE

Three Tips for Those Returning from Deployments: A Memoir,
War, Literature, and the Arts
, no. 24.

N
INA
Y
UN

Kimchee,
Fourth Genre
, Fall.

V
ICTOR
Z
APANA

Shaken,
The New Yorker
, November 26.

A
RIANNE
Z
WARTJES

This Suturing of Wounds or Words,
Gulf Coast
, Winter/Spring.

J
ESSE
Z
WICK

Up in the Air,
New Republic
, July 12.

Notable Special Issues of 2012

American Letters & Commentary
, The Future of the Book, eds. Catherine Kasper and David Ray Vance, no. 23.

Antioch Review, Intimate Memoirs, ed. Robert S. Fogarty, Winter.

Atrium, Graphic
, guest eds. Catherine Belling and MK Czerwiec, Spring.

The Baffler
, The High, the Low, the Vibrant!, ed. John Summers, no. 20.

Chattahoochee Review
, Ireland, ed. Anna Schachner, Fall/Winter.

Chautauqua
, War & Peace, ed. Diana Hume George, no. 9.

Conjunctions
, Riveted: The Obsession Issue, ed. Brad Morrow, no. 58.

Georgia Review
, Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, ed. Stephen Corey, Summer.

Hobart
, Luck, ed. Aaron Burch, no. 13.

Hunger Mountain
, Labyrinths, ed. Miciah Bay Gault, no. 17.

Image
, The Word-Soaked World, ed. Gregory Wolfe, no. 75.

Lapham’s Quarterly
, Magic Shows, ed. Lewis Lapham, Summer.

Mamalode
, Capacity, ed. Elke Govertsen, Winter.

Manoa
, Almost Heaven, ed. Frank Stewart, vol. 23, no. 2.

New Criterion
, Hilton Kramer, 1928—2012, ed. Roger Kimball, May.

New Letters
, Resilience and Art, ed. Robert Stewart, vol. 78, nos. 3 & 4.