Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (103 page)

“Imelda” from
Letters to a Young Doctor
by Richard Selzer. Copyright © 1987, 2001 by Richard Selzer. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author.

“The Pat Boone Fan Club” by Sue William Silverman.
Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture
, no. 13 (spring 2005), Georgia College & State University, pp. 115–125.

“A Measure of Acceptance” by Floyd Skoot.
Creative Nonfiction
19 (2002), pp. 79–91.

“Black Swans” by Lauren Slater. Permission granted by Inkwell Management. Copyright © 1997 by Lauren Slater.

“The Love of My Life” by Cheryl Strayed.
The Sun
, no. 321 (September 2002).

“Mother Tongue.” Copyright © 1990 by Amy Tan. First appeared in
The Threepenny Review
. Reprinted by permission of the author and the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.

“If You Knew Then What I Know Now” by Ryan van Meter. From
River Teeth
, vol. 7, no. 1 (fall 2005) by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © by the University of Nebraska Press.

“Consider the Lobster” from
Consider the Lobster
by David Foster Wallace. Copyright © 2005 by David Foster Wallace. By permission of Little Brown & Company.

“Hawk” copyright © 2001 by Joy Williams. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.