New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.
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Notes:

• A Touchstone Book.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• The fourth state of matter / Jo Ann Beard — Getting along with nature / Wendell Berry — The pain scale / Eula Biss — The unwanted child / Mary Clearman Blew — Torch song / Charles Bowden — Embalming Mom / Janet Burroway — Physical evidence / Kelly Grey Carlisle — The glass essay / Anne Carson — Burl’s / Bernard Cooper — Visitor / Michael W. Cox — Living like weasels / Annie Dillard — Return to sender / Mark Doty — Leap / Brian Doyle — Somehow form a family / Tony Earley — Kissing / Anthony Farrington — The beautiful city of Tirzah / Harrison Candelaria Fletcher — Sun dance / Diane Glancy — Mirrorings / Lucy Grealy — Present tense Africa / William Harrison — Reading history to my mother / Robin Hemley — World on a hilltop / Adam Hochschild — A small place / Jamaica Kincaid — High tide in Tucson / Barbara Kingsolver — Small rooms in time / Ted Kooser — The essayist is sorry for your loss / Sara Levine — Mastering the art of French cooking / E. J. Levy — Portrait of my body / Phillip Lopate — Flight / Barry Lopez — The undertaking / Thomas Lynch — Sorry / Lee Martin — Interstellar / Rebecca McClanahan — Bad eyes / Erin McGraw — The search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee — The date / Brenda Miller — Son of Mr. Green Jeans / Dinty W. Moore — Celibate passion / Kathleen Norris — This is not who we are / Naomi Shihab Nye — Autopsy report / Lia Purpura — Watching the animals / Richard Rhodes — Shitdiggers, mudflats, and the worm men of Maine / Bill Roorbach — Repeat after me / David Sedaris — Imelda / Richard Selzer — The Pat Boone Fan Club / Sue William Silverman — A measure of acceptance / Floyd Skloot — Black swans / Lauren Slater — The love of my life / Cheryl Strayed — Mother tongue / Amy Tan — If you knew then what I know now / Ryan Van Meter — Consider the lobster / David Foster Wallace — Hawk / Joy Williams.
• From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism–this anthology brings together fifty works from all genres of creative nonfiction. –from back cover.

Subjects:

• American essays — 20th century.
• American essays — 21st century.
• Creative nonfiction, American.
• Reportage literature, American.
• English essays — 20th century.
• English essays — 21st century.
• Creative nonfiction, English.
• Reportage literature, English.

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