The Best American Essays 2014 (38 page)

(Closed) American Barber Shop,
Upstreet
, no. 9.

C
HARLES
C
OMEY

The Love We Use,
The Point
, Fall.

E
LI
C
ONNAUGHTON

Sisters,
Carolina Quarterly
, Spring.

K
ATIE
C
ORTESE

Winning Like a Girl,
Sport Literate
, vol. 8, no. 2.

T
RACI
C
OX

Missed,
Masters Review
, no. 2.

P
AUL
C
RENSHAW

Work,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Fall/Winter.

M
ARIAN
C
ROTTY

It's New Year's Eve, and This Is Dubai,
New England Review
, vol. 34, no. 2.

P
ATTI
C
ROUCH

Sea Change,
Bellingham Review
, Spring.

J
OHN
C
ROWLEY

Squeak and Gibber,
Lapham's Quarterly
, Fall.

B
RENT
C
UNNINGHAM

Last Meals,
Lapham's Quarterly
, Fall.

R
ENEE
E. D'A
OUST

You Move Away. You Move Closer,
Trestle Creek Review,
no.
27.

A
DAM
D
AVIES

The Loneliest Lemur on Earth,
Sarasota
, September.

S
ARAH
D
E
L
EEUW

Soft Shouldered,
Prism
, Fall.

J
EREMY
D
ENK

Every Good Boy Does Fine,
The New Yorker
, April 8.

M
ARCIA
D
ESANCTIS

The Slow Language of Sculpture, The Fast Language of Words,
The Millions
, April 17.

B
ONNIE
D
EVET

Prince Christian Sound: Iceberg Canyon of the North,
hackwriters .com
, May.

J
AQUIRA
D
IAZ

Girl Hood: On (Not) Finding Yourself in Books,
Her Kind,
January.

M
ORRIS
D
ICKSTEIN

My Life in Fiction,
Threepenny Review
, Fall.

B
RIAN
D
ILLON

Attention! Photography and Sidelong Discovery,
Aperture,
Summer.

K
RISTIN
D
OMBEK

How to Quit,
n+
1
, no. 15.

B
RIAN
D
OYLE

Dawn and Mary,
The Sun,
August.

R
EGINA
D
REXLER

Stealing Mannequins,
West Branch
, no. 72.

B
RIAN
D
UCHANEY

The Man I Killed,
War, Literature, & the Arts
, no. 25.

P
ETE
D
UVAL

Adhesion,
Massachusetts Review
, Spring.

 

C
AROL
E
DGARIAN

Savages,
Narrative Magazine,
Stories of the Week 2012–2013.

J
OHN
M. E
DWARDS

A Trace of Thrace: A Balkan Adventure,
Europe Revisited,
October.

M
ICKEY
E
DWARDS

What Is the Common Good? The Case for Transcending Partisanship,
Daedalus
, Spring.

P
IA
Z. E
HRHARDT

The Owls of Solomon Place,
Oxford American
, no. 82.

 

J
ONATHAN
F
INK

The Holy Land Experience,
Southwest Review
, vol. 98, no. 3.

C
AROLE
F
IRSTMAN

Objects of Affection,
South Dakota Review
, no. 50.

B
RUCE
F
LEMING

Small Hard Things,
Yale Review
, April.

R
OBERT
L
ONG
F
OREMAN

Guts,
The Cossack
, Winter.

P
ATRICIA
F
OSTER

Contingencies: Iowa City, IA,
Antioch Review
, Fall.

In Transit,
The Sun,
January.

T
HOMAS
F
RANK

Academy Fight Song,
The Baffler
, no. 23.

I
AN
F
RAZIER

The One that Got Away,
Outside
, September.

C
AMILLIA
F
REEMAN

Cartesian Anxiety in a Bleeding I,
Indiana Review
, Winter.

P
ATRICK
F
RENCH

After the War,
Granta,
Autumn (no. 125).

B
ONNIE
F
RIEDMAN

The Discipline of the Notebook,
Image
, no. 76.

 

M
OLLY
G
ALLENTINE

Jell-O,
CutBank
, no. 78.

J. M
ALCOLM
G
ARCIA

My Middle Age,
Tampa Review
, no. 45/46.

P
HILIP
G
ERARD

Freedom Fighter,
Our State
, March.

M
ERRILL
J
OAN
G
ERBER

The Found Desk,
Salmagundi
, Winter.

D
AVID
G
ESSNER

Meet the Keatles,
Oxford American
, no. 81.

N
ANCY
G
EYER

Black Plank,
Georgia Review
, Spring.

D
AGOBERTO
G
ILB

Pride and Prejudice,
Texas Monthly
, February.

G
ARY
G
ILDNER

Tearing Down the Barn,
Georgia Review
, Fall.

D. G
ILSON

On Faggot: An Etymology,
Indiana Review
, Summer.

C
OREY
G
INSBERG

Miami Redux,
Third Coast
, Fall.

P
ETER
G
ODFREY
-S
MITH

On Being an Octopus,
Boston Review
, May/June.

A
NNE
G
OLDMAN

Souvenirs of Stone,
Southwest Review
, vol. 98, no. 3.

L
UCY
B
RYAN
G
REEN

Melt,
So to Speak,
Spring.

A
LVIN
G
REENBERG

Visiting the Maharaja,
Ascent
, August 7.

K
ARL
T
ARO
G
REENFELD

My Daughter's Homework,
The Atlantic
, October.

G
ORDON
G
RICE

A Stiller Ground,
This Land
, November 15.

G
AIL
G
RIFFIN

The Messenger,
Chattahoochee Review
, Fall/Winter.

 

R
OBERT
H
AHN

Becoming Unknown,
Southern Humanities Review
, Spring.

B
RIAN
H
ALL

Study Bible: The Great Commission,
Memoir
, no. 12.

J
EFFREY
H
AMMOND

Night Watch,
Gettysburg Review
, Winter.

S
ILAS
H
ANSEN

Blank Slate,
Colorado
Review
, Spring.

J
IM
H
ARRISON

Courage and Survival,
Brick
, Winter.

K
ATHRYN
H
ARRISON

Incest: The Epilogue,
More
, October.

S
TEVEN
H
ARVEY

The Vanishing Point,
Southern Review
, Winter.

L
INDA
M. H
ASSELSTROM

Rabid,
New Letters
, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.

R
OBIN
H
EMLEY

The Writer Across the Table,
Southern Humanities Review
, Fall.

B
EN
H
EWITT

Lessons from the Hayfield,
Yankee
, July/August.

P
ATRICK
H
ICKS

Treblinka,
Beecher's
, no. 3.

K
ARRIE
H
IGGINS

Partial Match,
Diagram,
September 1.

J. A. H
IJIYA

Numbers,
Raritan
, Spring.

G
RAHAM
H
ILLARD

The Complainers: Online with
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Los Angeles Review of Books
, September 4.

A
MANDA
H
ILLES

Breathless,
Midwestern Gothic
, Fall.

J
EN
H
IRT

Hour Thirteen,
Colorado Review,
Fall/Winter.

E
DWARD
H
OAGLAND

On Friendship,
American Scholar
, Winter.

A
LYSHA
H
OFFA

Colorless Life: An Essay in Grayscale,
Southern Indiana Review,
Spring.

L
INDA
H
OGAN

Ways of the Cranes,
Image
, Fall (no. 79).

B. J. H
OLLARS

Death by Refrigerator,
Normal School
, Fall.

S
ARAH
H
OLLENBECK

A Goldmine,
Dogwood
, no. 12.

C
LAUDIA
H
ONEYWELL

Street Life,
War, Literature, & the Arts
, no. 25.

M
ARY
H
OOD

Breaking It,
Georgia Review
, Spring.

M
ARYA
H
ORNBACHER

Strip,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

C
AROLINE
H
ORWITZ

Bare,
Summerset Review
, September 15.

G
AIL
H
OSKING

The ABCs of Parting,
Post Road
, no. 24.

E
DWARD
H
OWER

What Can You Do,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Spring/Summer.

E
WA
H
RYNIEWICZ
-Y
ARBROUGH

Europa, Europa,
Agni
, no. 77.

S
ONYA
H
UBER

Love and Industry, A Midwestern Workbook,
Terrain.org,
Winter.

B
ARBARA
H
URD

Fracking: A Fable,
Brevity,
March.

S
AMUEL
H
YNES

Keeley Rules or How to Play Tennis on Social Security,
Sewanee Review
, Spring.

 

J
UYANNE
J
AMES

Table Scraps,
Bayou,
no.
60.

K
RISTOPHER
J
ANSMA

Why Do We Write?
Slice
, no. 12.

C
ARREN
J
AO

Head Games,
The Magazine
, August 1.

A
LEX
R. J
ONES