The Best American Essays 2015 (37 page)

B
RIAN
D
OYLE

Sam & Louis,
Georgia Review
, Summer.

J
ACQUELINE
D
OYLE

Who's Your Stepdaddy?
Jabberwock Review
, Winter.

M
ONICA
D
RAKE

Where Nothing Bad Can Happen,
Rumpus
, February 17.

K. E. D
UFFIN

Castle Hill,
AGNI
, no. 80.

M
ARTHA
G
RACE
D
UNCAN

My Father and the Hair Grafter,
Tampa Review
, no. 47/48.

L
ENA
D
UNHAM

Difficult Girl,
The New
Yorker
, September 1.

M
ARY
B
ESS
D
UNN

Window Seat,
Pembroke Magazine
, no. 46.

K
ATHERINE
D
YKSTRA

Like Held Breath,
Crab Orchard Review
, Winter/Spring.

D
EREK
D
YSON

Letter from Ferguson,
This Land
, December 15.

L
AURIE
E
ASTER

Crack My Heart Wide Open,
Rumpus
, October 9.

X
UJUN
E
BERLEIN

Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges,
American Literary
Review
, March.

M
ARK
E
DMUNDSON

A Paint-Factory Education,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Fall.

J
OHN
M. E
DWARDS

Kentucky Fried Moa,
Dave's Travel Corner
, July.

D
AVE
E
GGERS

The Dentist on the Ridge,
McSweeney's
, no. 48.

B
ARBARA
E
HRENREICH

Terror Cells,
The Baffler
, no. 26.

O
KLA
E
LLIOTT

Cinnamon or Crocodiles, Romanticized Suffering, and the Productivity of Error: A Polymorphous Essay-in-Fragments,
Chattahoochee
Review
, Spring.

E
ZEKIEL
J. E
MANUEL

Why I Hope to Die at 75,
The Atlantic
, October.

P
AMELA
E
MIGH
-M
URPHY

Seizure,
Little Patuxent Review
, Winter.

J
OSEPH
E
PSTEIN

Death Takes No Holiday,
Commentary
, June.

B
RIAN
E
VENSON

The Particulars,
Conjunctions
, no. 63.

T
HOMAS
F
ARBER

Writing from a Distance,
Catamaran
, Fall.

A
NGELA
F
EATHERSTONE

God Said No,
Gargoyle
, no. 61.

M
ELISSA
F
EBOS

All of Me,
Kenyon
Review
, Fall.

Call My Name,
Prairie Schooner
, Spring.

M
ATTHEW
F
ERRENCE

Exoskeleton,
Gettysburg Review
, Spring.

M
ELISSA
F
ERRONE

Touch,
The Pinch
, Spring.

G
ARY
F
INCKE

The Physics of Desire,
Kenyon Review Online
, Winter.

J
ONATHAN
F
INK

The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper,
Witness
, Spring.

N
ICK
F
LYNN

Whose Dream Is This?
Columbia
, no. 52.

T
ERRANCE
F
LYNN

Having Faith,
Southern Indiana Review
, Fall.

R
ICHARD
F
ORD

Magic,
Threepenny
Review
, Spring.

R
OBERT
L
ONG
F
OREMAN

Dirty Laundry,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

J
OSHUA
F
OSTER

Bring on the Spins,
Tin
House
, vol. 16, no. 2.

P
ATRICIA
F
OSTER

Awakening,
Antioch Review
, Fall.

A
LASTAIR
F
OWLER

First Phrases,
Yale Review
, April.

A
MELIA
F
OWLER

Space and Time,
Cleaver Magazine
, September.

P
AULA
F
OX

Summer Losses,
Yale
Review
, July.

H. E. F
RANCIS

Prologue to a Life of Storywriting,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 3.

J
OEY
F
RANKLIN

Houseguest,
Mid-American Review
, vol. 35, no. 1.

S
TEVE
F
RIEDMAN

Citi Bikes Changed My Life,
Bicycling
, August.

D
AVID
A. F
RYXELL

Selfie Control,
Desert Exposure
, January.

A
JA
G
ABEL

The Sparrows in France,
Kenyon Review
, Fall.

M
ONA
G
ABLE

The Hugo Problem,
Los
Angeles Magazine
, April.

N
ICHOLAS
G
AMSO

On Marjorie,
Hotel
Amerika
, Winter.

J. M
ALCOLM
G
ARCIA

Stabbing Johnny,
Apple Valley Review
, Fall.

K
ENNETH
G
ARCIA

Diego and Our Lady of the Wilderness,
Gettysburg Review
, Summer.

N
ATASHA
G
ARDNER

Walking Scarred,
5280
, May.

P
HILIP
G
ARRISON

Before Long, in a While,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 2.

R
OXANE
G
AY

Not Here to Make Friends,
BuzzFeed
, January 3.

C
HRISTINE
G
ELINEAU

Courtesy of the Gravedigger,
New York Times Opinionator
, December 21.

L
YNELL
G
EORGE

Lost Angelena,
Southern California Review
, no. 7.

P
HILIP
G
ERARD

The Afterlives of the Dead,
Our State
, August.

R
ACHEL
K
AADZI
G
HANSAH

We a Badd People,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Summer.

G
ARY
G
ILDNER

How I Married Michelle,
Southern Review
, Winter.

C
HRISTINA
M
ARSDEN
G
ILLIS

Waiting for the Dark,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 2.

A
MANDA
G
IRACCA

Within This Kingdom,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

A
LBERT
G
OLDBARTH

Two Characters in Search of an Essay,
Georgia
Review
, Summer.

M
ICHELLE
G
OLDBERG

What Is a Woman?
The New Yorker
, August 4.

A
NNE
G
OLDMAN

Travels with
Jane
Eyre
,
Georgia Review
, Fall.

S
TEPHEN
G
OODWIN

Best, Tom,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Fall.

A
DAM
G
OPNIK

Word Magic,
The New
Yorker
, May 26.

E
MILY
F
OX
G
ORDON

Barnacle,
Colorado Review
, Spring.

M
ICHAEL
G
RAFF

Up, and Away,
Washingtonian
, April.

C
HRISTINE
G
RANADOS

True Colors,
Texas Monthly
, May.

A
DAM
G
REEN

Late or Never?
Vogue
, April.

L
INNIE
G
REENE

Our Doubles, Ourselves:
Twin Peaks
and My Summer at the Black Lodge,
Hobart Web
, December 12.

C
YNTHIA
B. G
REER

Doris and the Dolls,
Little Patuxent Review
, Summer.

A
LLISON
G
RUBER

A Music in the Head,
Literary Review
, Summer.

P
ENNY
G
UISINGER

Coming Out,
Fourth
Genre
, Fall.

M
ARGARET
M
ORGANROTH
G
ULLETTE

Euthanasia as a Caregiving Fantasy in the Era of the New Longevity,
Age, Culture, Humanities
, no. 1.

D
EBRA
G
WARTNEY

Didn't Get It,
Prairie Schooner
, Summer.

J
OHN
H
ALES

Seeing, and Believing,
Hudson Review
, Winter.

D
ONALD
H
ALL

Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr.,
Narrative
, November 10.

D
AVID
H
AMILTON

Glenning the Thicket, Thicketing the Glen,
December
, Fall/Winter.

P
ATRICIA
H
AMPL

Montaigne's Lute,
Gulf Coast
, Winter/Spring.

L
EE
H
ANCOCK

That Bleak Rise Near Waco,
Consequence
, no. 6.

S
ILAS
H
ANSEN

An Annotated Guide to My OKCupid Profile,
Normal School
, Spring.

H
EATHER
H
ANSMAN

Lighthouse for Sale,
Medium.com
, December.

K
ERRY
H
ARDIE

Aftermath,
New
Hibernia Review
, Spring.

K
ATHRIN
H
ARRIS

The Dolphin Lady of Siesta Key,
Post Road
, no. 27.

J
IM
H
ARRISON

Gramps le Fou,
Brick
, no. 92.

M
ILES
H
ARVEY

At the Grave of Sadie Thorpe,
New Ohio Review
, Spring.

D
ANNY
H
EITMAN

The Boyish Side of Mencken,
Humanities
, November/December.

R
OBIN
H
EMLEY

Celebrating Russian Federation Day with Immanuel Kant,
Conjunctions
, no. 62.

D
AWN
H
ERRERA
-H
ELPHAND

Into the Cave,
The Point
, no. 9.

H
ENDRIK
H
ERTZBERG

You're Wrong, You're Wrong, You're Definitely Wrong, and I'm Probably Wrong, Too,
New
Republic
, November 24/December 8.

J
ENNY
G
ROPP
H
ESS

Notes on Attempting to Understand Human Hands,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 48, no. 2.

K
ARRIE
H
IGGINS

Strange Flowers,
Manifest-Station
, November 11.

K
ATHLEEN
H
ILL

Portrait,
Ploughshares Omnibus
, no. 2.

J
EN
H
IRTT

Not Less than 1,000 Bottles for Horseradish,
Ninth Letter
, Spring/Summer.

B
ONNIE
-S
UE
H
ITCHCOCK

Every Third Week,
Sonora Review
, no. 64/65.

E
DWARD
H
OAGLAND

On Loneliness,
American Scholar
, Spring.

L
INDA
H
OGAN

Coming Home,
Orion
, May/June/July/August.

M
ING
H
OLDEN

Lenin,
Arts & Letters
, Spring.

E
VA
H
OLLAND

Why We Play,
SBNation
, June 25.

B. J. H
OLLARS

The Year of the Great Forgetting,
Hayden's Ferry Review
, Spring/Summer.

J
ENNY
H
OLLOWELL

The End of the End: An Evolution of Faith, in Five Films,
Bright Wall/Dark Room
, February.

J
IM
H
OLT

The Grand Illusion,
Lapham's
Quarterly
, Fall.

A
NN
H
OOD

Second Skin,
Chattahoochee Review
, Fall/Winter.

P
ATRICIA
H
ORVATH

Envy,
New Ohio
Review
, Fall.

G
AIL
H
OSKING

Ode to a Surrogate's Grace,
Slab
, no. 9.