The Best American Essays 2014 (39 page)

Matinee,
Santa Monica Review
, Fall.

S
HANA
C
AMPBELL
J
ONES

Family Portraits, with Dogs,
Barely South Review,
Spring.

 

A
NNE
K
AIER

Maple Lane,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Spring/Summer.

B
ETTYE
K
EARSE

Destination Jim Crow,
River Teeth
, Fall.

G
ARRET
K
EIZER

Walt,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, Summer.

T
HOMAS
E. K
ENNEDY

My White House Days,
New Letters
, vol. 79, nos. 3 and 4.

T
IM
K
EPPEL

My Father's Hands,
Hayden's Ferry Review
, Fall/Winter.

S
EAN
K
ILPATRICK

The Buff Ruins,
Hobart
, no. 14.

B
ARBARA
K
INGSOLVER

Where It Begins,
Orion
, November/December.

J
UDITH
K
ITCHEN

Coda,
Water-Stone Review
, no. 16.

R
ACHEL
K
OLB

Seeing the Speed of Sound,
Stanford
, March/April.

J
ACQUELINE
K
OLOSOV

Dust, Light, Life,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Spring.

The Inner Life of Pearl: Vermeer's Alchemy,
Fifth Wednesday
, Fall.

M
ARY
K
ORAL

Lock Up,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Spring/Summer.

R
OBERT
K
OSTUCK

The Birds of South America,
Zone 3
, Fall.

H
ARI
K
UNZRU

Stalkers,
Granta
, Autumn (no. 125).

K
IM
D
ANA
K
UPPERMAN

Strangers on a Plane,
Normal School
, Fall.

 

M
ATT
L
ABASH

The Last 24 Notes,
Weekly Standard
, September 16.

R
OBERT
L
ACEY

On the Dangers of Hero Worship,
North Dakota Quarterly,
Spring/Summer.

D
ON
L
AGO

Three Rings,
Gettysburg Review
, Summer.

E
LLEN
L
AMBERT

“Death Will Abide”: A Meditation on an Adolescent Suicide,
Raritan
, Summer.

A
LEXANDER
L
ANDFAIR

Facebook of the Dead,
Missouri Review
, Fall.

W
ILLIAM
L
ANGEWIESCHE

What Lies Beneath,
Vanity Fair
, October.

L
ANCE
L
ARSEN

The Room in Which I Write,
Southwest Review
, vol. 98, no. 2.

P
ETER
L
A
S
ALLE

Au Train de Vie,
Missouri Review
, Summer.

K
IESE
L
AYMON

You Are the Second Person,
Guernica
, June 17.

D
AVID
L
AZAR

Playing Ourselves: Pseudo-Documentary and Person,
Antioch Review
, Spring.

J
ACKSON
L
EARS

Get Happy!!,
The Nation
, November 25.

M
ICHELLE
L
EGRO

A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes,
The Believer
, May.

D
ANIEL
W. L
EHMAN

“Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw”: Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction,
River Teeth,
Fall.

S
ARAH
K. L
ENZ

Lightning Flowers,
Colorado Review
, Fall/Winter.

N
ATON
L
ESLIE

My Criminal Past,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

J
ONATHAN
L
ETHEM

Here's Looking at You,
Vogue
, November.

S
TEVEN
L
EVINGSTON

My Drama,
Washington Post Magazine
, April 7.

A
RIEL
L
EWITON

Holiday,
Ninth Letter,
Fall/Winter.

A
LAN
L
IGHTMAN

Symmetrical Universe,
Orion
, March/April.

M
EL
L
IVATINO

Dogged by the Dark,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Winter.

S
ONJA
L
IVINGSTON

Mad Love: The Ballad of Fred & Allie,
Creative Nonfiction
, no. 48.

B
ETH
L
OFFREDA

Dinosaur Monument,
High Desert Journal
, Spring.

L
INDA
L
OGAN

Selfless,
New York Times Magazine
, April 28.

P
HILLIP
L
OPATE

How I Look at Movies,
Normal School
, Fall.

F
RANKIE
L
OPES

Room for My Knees,
Post Road
, no. 26.

N
ANCY
L
UDMERER

Kritios Boy,
Literal Latte
, Winter.

 

S
ARAH
M
ACARAEG

Namesake,
TruthOut,
May 31.

D
OUG
M
ACK

Go Your Own Way,
The Morning News
, May 1.

K
AREN
M
ANER

Hugo,
Colorado Review
, Summer.

J
AMES
M
ARCUS

Arrive Without Traveling: India,
Antioch Review
, Fall.

A
NN
M
ARKLE

You Never Expect the Call,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

M
IRIAM
M
ARKOWITZ

Here Comes Everybody,
The Nation
, December 9.

L
EE
M
ARTIN

Spook,
1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
, vol. 1, no. 1.

D
AVID
M
ASELLO

The Boys Who Sailed Away,
Fine Art Connoisseur
, June.

E
LIZABETH
R
OSEN
M
AYER

The Portrait,
South Loop Review
, no. 15.

N
OREEN
M
C
A
ULIFFE

Under the Locust Tree,
Baltimore Review
, Winter.

R
EBECCA
M
C
C
LANAHAN

Adopt a Bench,
The Sun
, March.

K
EVIN
M
C
G
RATH

Walking to Windward,
Harvard Review
, no. 44.

K
ATE
M
C
I
NTYRE

Revenge of the Spider King,
Redivider
, vol. 10, no. 2.

C
HARLES
M
C
L
EOD

Steps for Home Tooth Extraction, Berkeley 2006,
Hobart
, no. 14.

K
AT
M
EADS

Margaret Mitchell's Dump,
Gargoyle
, no. 60.

S
ARAH
M
ENKEDICK

Homing Instincts,
Vela Magazine
, July 1.

B
RENDA
M
ILLER

Dress Code,
Passages North
, Winter.

A
NDER
M
ONSON

Dear Defacer,
A Public Space
, Winter.

S
ARAH
F
AWN
M
ONTGOMERY

Lesson in Cartography,
Crab Orchard Review,
Summer/Fall.

R
ICK
M
OODY

Election Diary 2012,
Black Clock
, Winter/Spring.

D
INTY
W. M
OORE

Of Striped Food and Polar Bears,
TriQuarterly
, January 15.

R
UTH
M
OOSE

A Key as Big as Your Hand,
Southeast Review,
no.
1.

J
ENNIFER
M
ORGAN

Inshallah,
Event,
vol.
42, no. 3.

F
REDERIC
M
ORTON

Othello's Sons,
Harper's Magazine
, September.

 

N
ICK
N
EELY

Nasty,
CutBank
, no. 79.

T
AM
L
IN
N
EVILLE

The Skirts and Blouses Are Hatched,
New Ohio Review
, Fall.

J
ACOB
N
EWBERRY

A Thousand Nations,
Kenyon Review
, Winter.

C
AITRIN
N
ICOL

Do Elephants Have Souls?
New Atlantis
, Winter.

D
ELANEY
N
OLAN

Soyleyelim,
Chattahoochee Review
, Spring.

J
AMES
N
OLAN

Sixty-Eight,
Boulevard,
Spring (no. 84).

G
EOFFREY
N
ORMAN

A Great Battlefield,
Weekly Standard
, July 8–15.

T
HOR
R. N
YSTROM

Specter of Silence,
Iowa Review
, Fall.

 

L
AURIE
O
LIN

From Sundogs to the Midnight Sun: An Alaskan Reverie,
Hudson Review
, Spring.

M
ARK
O
PPENHEIMER

Forty Thoughts on a Fourth Daughter,
Medium
, October 23.

 

A
DRIANA
P
ARAMO

Praying Alone in Qatar,
The Sun
, December.

W
ILLIAM
S
IDNEY
P
ARKER

I'm No Expert but; or An Idea Among the Laity,
Labletter
, no. 15.

J
ERICHO
P
ARMS

A Chapter on Red,
Hotel Amerika
, Spring.

D
USTIN
P
ARSONS

Pumpjack,
Crab Orchard Review
, Summer/Fall.

A
NITTAH
P
ATRICK

The Math,
Bellingham Review
, Spring.

A
NNIE
P
ENFIELD

The Half-Life,
Fourth
Genre
, Spring.

S
AM
P
ICKERING

Poetry at the Breakfast Table,
Sewanee Review
, Spring.

L
ESLIE
P
IETRZYK

Joy to the World,
PMS,
no. 12.

S
TEVEN
P
INKER

Science Is Not Your Enemy,
New Republic
, August 19.

N
ORMAN
P
ODHORETZ

“My Negro Problem—and Ours” at 50,
Commentary,
May.

R
OLF
P
OTTS

Why I Follow Football,
Barrelhouse
, no. 12.

C
HRISTINE
P
OUNTNEY