John Balaban, from Remembering Heaven’s Face

Rick Bass, Knapweed

Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Paterson Public Library

M.F.K. Fisher, Paris Journal

George Garrett, Tigers in Red Weather: Some Academic Anecdotes

John Haines, Death

William Harrison, Present Tense Africa

Gordon Lish, Wouldn’t a Title Just Make It Worse?

Peter Najarian, The Hungry Ghost

Naomi Shihab Nye, Growing

Joyce Carol Oates, I, the Juror

Samuel Pickering, Jr., Belonging

Judy Troy, Stories

Bronislava Volkova, Escape

Terry Tempest Williams, A Patriot’s Journal