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T
ERRENCE
H
OLT

The Perfect Code,
Granta
, Summer.

J
OE
H
OOVER

SJ, Occupy My Heart,
Jesuit Post
, February 6.

N
ICK
H
ORNBY

My Patron,
The Believer
, February.

P
AM
H
OUSTON

Corn Maze,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 17.

P
ATRICK
H
RUBY

Game Over,
Sports on Earth
, August 29.

E
WA
H
RYNIEWICZ
-Y
ARBROUGH

Reading Under the Table,
Threepenny Review
, Summer.

H
UA
H
SU

The Death Star,
Lucky Peach
, Fall.

A
USTIN
L. H
UGHES

The Folly of Scientism,
New Atlantis
, Fall.

E
VAN
H
UGHES

Consider the Gentrifier,
Tin House
, no. 53.

M
ARIA
H
UMMEL

Sparrow,
Narrative
, Winter.

R
OCHELLE
H
URT

A Disbeliever in Limbo,
Image
, no. 74.

S
IRI
H
USTVEDT

Freud’s Playground,
Salmagundi
, Spring/Summer.

 

P
ICO
I
YER

On Not Eating,
Portland
, Winter.

 

L
AWRENCE
J
ACKSON

The Ledger,
n + 1
, Summer.

A
NJALI
J
AIN
, MD

The Social History,
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
, November.

L
ESLIE
J
AMISON

Lost Boys,
A Public Space
, no. 15.

W
ES
J
AMISON

The Secret Garden,
South Loop Review
, no. 13.

M
ELANIE
J
ANISSE

Detroit,
Bayou
, no. 57.

M
YRA
J
EHLEN

How Georges Simenon Knew Where to Place the Couch,
Raritan
, Summer.

J
AC
J
EMC

Notes Toward a Definition of Luck,
Hobart
, no. 13.

T
REBBE
J
OHNSON

Gaze Even Here,
Orion
, November/December.

T
OM
J
UNOD

The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama,
Esquire
, August.

 

A
DRIANNE
K
ALFOPOULOU

With My Daughter, Hannah Arendt, and the City of Futures,
Hotel Amerika
, Spring.

L
AURE
K
ATSAROS

A New World of Love,
Massachusetts Review
, Fall.

L
EON
K
ATZ

A Year with Alice B. Toklas,
Yale Review
, July.

G
ARRET
K
EIZER

A Harmony in Living,
Lapham’s Quarterly
, W
INTER
.

J
ESSE
K
ELLERMAN

Deviated: A Memoir,
Commentary
, May.

P
HILIP
K
ELLY

Painting the Summer Palace of the Queen,
The Sun
, February.

G
ILLIAM
K
ENDALL

Easily Led,
The Sun
, November.

T
HOMAS
E. K
ENNEDY

A Night in Tunisia,
Epoch
, vol. 61, no. 2.

T
IMOTHY
K
ENNY

Dark Nights and Feral Dogs,
Green Mountain Review
, vol. 25, no. 2.

H
ARRISON
S
COTT
K
EY

The Imaginary Farm,
Oxford American
, no. 77.

C
OLLEEN
K
INDER

Blot Out,
Creative Nonfiction
, Spring.

H
EATHER
K
ING

Of All the Mothers in the World,
The Sun
, August.

J
OE
K
LEIN

How to Die,
Time
, June 11.

G
WENDOLYN
K
NAPP

The Mother Load,
Southeast Review
, vol. 30, no. 1.

S
ANDRA
K
OBRIN

The Hitler Fund,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Fall/Winter.

A
NDREA
K
OTT

The Guns,
North Dakota Quarterly
, vol. 77, no. 4.

J
ANE
K
RAMER

A Reporter at Odds,
The New Yorker
, July 23.

D
IANE
K
RAYNAK

Lazarus,
Zone 3
, Spring.

D
ANIEL
K
RIEGER

Going Gently into That Good Night,
Narratively
, September.

C
ONNIE
K
UHNS

Last Days in Cheyenne,
Geist
, Spring.

M
AXINE
K
UMIN

Love in Wartime,
American Scholar
, Autumn.

B
OB
K
UNZINGER

Baby on a Windshield,
Southern Humanities Review
, Winter.

K
IM
D
ANA
K
UPPERMAN

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone,
Hunger Mountain
, December.

K
ELLY
K
URT

Death’s Yellow Door,
This Land
, February 15.

A
MBER
K
UZMICK

Famine and Feast,
Alimentum
, no. 13, Winter.

 

M
ATT
L
ABASH

The Meme Generation,
Weekly Standard
, June 4.

R
OBERT
L
ACY

Saturdays at the Paramount,
Sewanee Review
, Summer.

J
HUMPA
L
AHIRI

My Life’s Sentences,
New York Times Sunday Review
, March 18.

A
NNA
L
EAHY

Half-Skull Days,
The Pinch
, Spring.

M
ARTHA
W
EINMAN
L
EAR

The Comfort Zone,
Narrative
.

M
ELISSA
L
EAVITT

Show Off,
Willow Springs
, Spring.

D
AVID
L
EGAULT

Significant Screams,
Barrelhouse
, no. 10.

N
ATON
L
ESLIE

All Around the World,
North Dakota Quarterly
, vol. 77, nos. 2 & 3.

J. D. L
EWIS

Tell Me,
Cimarron Review
, Spring.

A
LAN
L
IGHTMAN

The Temporary Universe,
Tin House
, no. 51.

B
RANDON
L
INGLE

Queen’s Creek,
Guernica
, August 30.

M
EL
L
IVATINO

Wintry Rooms of Love,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Summer.

S
ONJA
L
IVINGSTON

Our Lady of the Roses,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

P
RISCILLA
L
ONG

Studio,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

P
HILLIP
L
OPATE

City Essay Films,
Normal School
, Fall.

J
ESSICA
L
OVE

Reading Fast and Slow,
American Scholar
, Spring.

D
AVID
L
UMPKIN

Church Is Wherever You Are,
Oxford American
, no. 77.

S
EAN
L
YSAGHT

Sleeping with Books,
New Hibernia Review
, Summer.

 

S
TEVE
M
ACONE

Rites of Passage,
American Scholar
, Summer.

P
ATRICK
M
ADDEN

Fixity,
Southwest Review
, vol. 97, no. 2.

M
ARGARET
M
ALONE

A Crooked Still Life,
Oregon Humanities
, Fall/Winter.

S
TEPHEN
M
ARCHE

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,
The Atlantic
, May.

F
RANCESCA
M
ARI

The Clock Test,
Alaska Quarterly Review
, Fall/Winter.

D
EBRA
M
ARQUART

Losing the Meadow,
Alligator Juniper
, 2012.

P
EYTON
M
ARSHALL

The Other Hemisphere,
Blackbird
, vol. 11, no. 1.

A
NDY
M
ARTIN

Hair Piece: Derrida in the Wilderness,
Raritan
, Summer.

C
LANCY
M
ARTIN

My Old Man,
Harper’s Magazine
, June.

A
LEXANDRIA
M
ARZANO
-L
ESNEVICH

Origins of a Murder,
Oxford American
, no. 78.

D
AVID
M
ASELLO

Addicted to a Younger Man,
Salon.com
, August 27.

J
ASON
M
ASTALER

Shadow Walk,
Harvard Review
, no. 42.

H
ILARY
M
ASTERS

Amelia Earhart’s Last Landing,
Sewanee Review
, Summer.

N
EIL
M
ATHISON

Wooden Boat,
Blue Lyra Review
, vol. 1, no. 2.

R
EBECCA
M
CCLANAHAN

Ginkgo Song,
Kenyon Review
, Summer.

M
AC
M
C
C
LELLAND

Shelf Lives,
Mother Jones
, March/April.

D
EIRDRE
M
CCLOSKY

Happyism,
New Republic
, June 28.

M
AUREEN
M
C
C
OY

Brother Joseph,
Wapsipinicon Almanac
, no. 19.

T
HOMAS
M
C
G
ONIGLE

Then,
Notre Dame Review
, Summer/Fall.

M
ICHAEL
M
CGREGOR

A Gyroscope on the Island of Love,
Image
, no. 70.

J
OHN
M
C
P
HEE

Editors & Publisher,
The New Yorker
, July 2.

D
ANIEL
M
ENDELSOHN

Unsinkable,
The New Yorker
, April 16.

D
APHNE
M
ERKIN

We’re All Helmut Newton Now,
Elle
, October.

C
LAIRE
M
ESSUD

The Road to Damascus,
Granta
, Winter.

K
IMBERLY
M
EYER

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