The Best American Essays 2015 (40 page)

Justin Timberlake Has a Cold,
n+1
, no. 20.

S
COTT
L
ORING
S
ANDERS

My Father,
Creative Nonfiction
, Fall.

S
COTT
R
USSELL
S
ANDERS

Hooks Baited with Darkness,
Daedalus
, Winter.

A
NDREW
S
ANTELLA

All in Due Time,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Autumn.

M
ARIN
S
ARDY

A Shapeless Thief,
Missouri Review
, Summer.

E
VA
S
AULITIS

Wild Darkness,
Orion
, March/April.

A
NITA
S
AWYER

Good Humor,
Southern
Humanities Review
, vol. 48, no. 1 (Winter).

R
OGER
S
CHMIDT

To What Shall I Compare This Life?
Raritan
, Spring.

R
ICHARD
S
CHMITT

Crossroads,
North
American Review
, Summer.

JL S
CHNEIDER

Unculting Ayn Rand,
Boulevard
, Fall.

C
ANDY
S
CHULMAN

Opening the Family's Vaults,
The Forward
, July 4.

K
ATHRYN
S
CHULZ

Final Forms,
The
New Yorker
, April 7.

A. O. S
CHWARTZ

You Must Remember This,
New York Times Magazine
, December 14.

L
YNNE
S
HARON
S
CHWARTZ

Letters from Robben Island,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 48, no. 2.

S
TEVEN
S
CHWARTZ

Principal's Office,
Normal School
, Fall.

R
ION
A
MILCAR
S
COTT

The Etiquette of Police Brutality: An Autopsy,
As It Ought
to Be
, August 14.

R
OY
S
CRANTON

The Terror of the New,
Sierra Nevada Review
, no. 25.

A
NDREW
D. S
CRIMGEOUR

Scribbling in the Margins,
New York Times
, February 2.

M
OLLY
S
EALE

Illness,
Hotel Amerika
, Winter.

D
AVID
S
EARCY

Still Life Painting,
Paris Review
, Fall.

R
OBERT
S
EIDMAN

Sports Fanaticism: An Insider's Report,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 2.

F
RANCES
S
TEAD
S
ELLERS

The Long Way Home,
Washington Post
Magazine
, September 14.

H
EATHER
S
ELLERS

Breathless,
Brevity
, January.

L
YNDA
S
EXSON

Implicit Tree,
Image
, no. 81.

D
AN
S
HANAHAN

To Be Unfathered: An Ode,
North Dakota Quarterly
, Winter.

A
NIS
S
HIVANI

A Manifesto Against Authors Writing for Free,
Boulevard
, Fall.

J
AN
S
HOEMAKER

Tenebrae,
Colorado
Review
, Summer.

D
AVID
S
HRIBMAN

Why We Love Sports,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Summer.

J
ASON
S
HULTS

Finer Than Prayer,
Carolina Quarterly
, Summer.

G
REG
S
IEGEL

A Decent Interval,
Cabinet
, November.

C
HARLES
S
IMIC

The Prisoner of History,
New York Review of Books
, August 14.

W
ILLIAM
H. S
IMON

Rethinking Privacy,
Boston Review
, September/October.

P
ATSY
S
IMS

No Twang of Conscience Whatever,
Oxford American
, Fall.

P
AUL
S
KENAZY

The World Left Behind,
Chicago Quarterly Review
, no. 17.

R. D. S
KILLINGS

M'Dear,
Notre Dame
Review
, no. 37.

D
AVID
S
KINNER

The Rise of Cool,
Humanities
, July/August.

J
EFFREY
S
KINNER

Religio Scriptor,
Yale Review
, July.

F
LOYD
S
KLOOT

Let the Dark Come Upon You,
Boulevard
, Fall.

S
ARAH
S
MARSH

Poor Teeth,
Aeon
, October 23.

J
ODY
S
MILING

Through the Rockies,
Prism
, Winter.

A
LI
S
MITH

The Hour and the Woman,
Brick
, no. 92.

G
ERALD
L. S
MITH

Whittling at the Edges of Childhood,
Sewanee Review
, Fall.

M
IKE
S
MITH

My Two Emilys,
Notre
Dame Magazine
, Winter.

M
IKE
S
MITH

Place Names of 501 Filomeno,
Tin House
, vol. 16, no. 1.

R
ON
C
LINTON
S
MITH

A Pilgrimage to Dennis Hopper,
River Teeth
, Fall.

R
OBERT
F. S
OMMER

Leavenworth,
Rathalla Review
, January.

A
LYSSA
G
RACE
S
ORRESSO

Don't Borrow Trouble,
Creative Nonfiction
, Summer.

D
IANA
S
PECHLER

The Matchmaker's Mouth,
Southern Review
, Spring.

M
ATTHEW
S
PELLBERG

The Chimeric Element in Perception: A First Exploration,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 1.

W
ILLARD
S
PIEGELMAN

Proust Goes to the Country Club,
American Scholar
, Summer.

S
USAN
M. S
TABILE

Bestiary,
Iowa
Review
, Fall.

J
EFF
S
TAIGER

Kindle 451,
New England
Review
, vol. 34, no. 3/4.

B
RIAN
J
AY
S
TANLEY

Taxonomy of Disorder,
North American Review
, Winter.

T
IFFANY
S
TANLEY

Jackie's Goodbye,
National Journal
, October 4.

M. D. S
TEIN

Remains,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 3.

A
DAM
S
TERNBERGH

Smile, You're Speaking Emoji,
New York Magazine
, November 17/23.

S
EBASTIAN
S
TOCKMAN

This Fan's Notes: A Football Elegy,
Los Angeles
Review
, January 31.

A
NDREA
S
TUART

Tourist,
Granta
, no. 129 (Autumn).

S
ARAH
P
AYNE
S
TUART

Pilgrim Mothers,
The New Yorker
, May 5.

S
USAN
F
ISHER
S
ULLAM

The Art of War,
Washington Post Magazine
, June 22.

J
OHN
J
EREMIAH
S
ULLIVAN

The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie,
New York Times Magazine
, April 13.

R
OBERT
S
ULLIVAN

Forest Farewell,
Orion
, March/April.

N
ANDHINI
S
UNDARESAN

Catch and Release,
Harvard Review
, no. 46.

C
AROLINE
S
UTTON

Tennis: Fort-da!
Literary Review
, Spring.

B
ARRETT
S
WANSON

This Swift and Violent Forgetting,
Ninth Letter
, Spring/Summer.

J
ILL
T
ALBOT

Stalled,
The Pinch
, Spring.

E
LIZABETH
T
ALLENT

Instruction,
Threepenny Review
, Summer.

J
ONI
T
EVIS

What Looks Like a Mad Disorder: The Sarah Winchester House,
Ecotone
, Spring/Summer.

P
AUL
T
HEROUX

Soul of the South,
Smithsonian
, July/August.

M
ARYJO
T
HOMAS

The Writing Spider,
Gettysburg Review
, Summer.

D
EBORAH
T
HOMPSON

The Four Stages of Cancer,
Upstreet
, no. 10.

T
ONI
T
IPTON
-M
ARTIN

Breaking the Jemima Code,
Ecotone
, Fall.

L
AD
T
OBIN

Here Everything Is Possible,
Rumpus
, June 9.

R
ACHEL
T
OOR

Learning to Pitch,
SBNation
, June 13.

D
ANIEL
T
ORDAY

The Third Golden Age of Television,
Salmagundi
, Fall.

A
LISON
T
OWNSEND

Wild Swans,
Chautaugua
, no. 11.

A
BBY
T
RAVIS

They Say,
Crab Orchard
Review
, Winter/Spring.

D
AVID
T
REUER

Off the Land,
Harper's Magazine
, November.

S
AYDA
T
RUJILLO

Listening: Soundscapes from Palestine,
The
Labletter
, no. 16.

E
RIC
T
RUMP

My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship,
New York
Times
, April 27.

F
REDERIC
T
UTEN

Some Episodes in the History of My Reading,
Conjunctions
, no. 63.

D
AVID
L. U
LIN

Green Shirt,
ZYZZYVA
, Spring/Summer.

B
ETHANY
V
ACCARO

The Presence of Absence,
American Scholar
, Spring.

S
ARAH
V
ALLANCE

The Pockmark on the Wall,
The Pinch
, Fall.

L
ESLIE
V
AN
G
ELDER

Measuring Time,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Spring.

J
AMES
V
ERINI

Love and Ruin,
The
Atavist
, February.

V
ANESSA
V
ESELKA

The Fort of Young Saplings,
The Atavist
, November.

W
YL
V
ILLACRES

Constant Motion,
One
Throne Magazine
, Fall.

J
ODIE
V
INSON

Sleeping in on Sundays,
Minerva Rising
, Spring.

R
OBERT
V
IVIAN

Mother Forever,
Upstreet
, no. 10.

M
ATTHEW
V
OLLMER

Music of the Spheres: A Meditation on NASA's Symphonies of the Planets,
Normal
School
, Spring.

J
ULIE
M
ARIE
W
ADE

The Big Picture,
Southern Indiana Review
, Spring.

N
ICOLA
W
ALDRON

My Thick Waist,
Sonora Review
, no. 64/65.

D
ONNA
W
ALKER

The Stone God's Daughter,
Prick of the Spindle
, no. 7.

N
ICOLE
W
ALKER

On Anger,
Passages
North
, no. 5.

T
HEODORE
W
ALTHER

Homeless in the City,
American Scholar
, Winter.

M
OIRA
W
EIGEL

Searching for Shanghai,
The Point
, no. 8.

E
MILY
M
EG
W
EINSTEIN

Mating Habits of the Asterisk,
Morning News
, June 25.

S
ARAH
M. W
ELLS

Human Resources Training,
The Pinch
, Fall.

T
ONY
W
HEDON

Belvidere,
Green
Mountains Review
, vol. 27, no. 1.

S
USAN
W
HITE

Crazy Legs,
The Labletter
, no. 16.