Read The Best American Essays 2013 Online
Authors: Robert Atwan
Demeter and Persephone in the Heartland,
Kenyon Review
, Fall.
C
AROLYN
M
ILLER
Arts and Science,
Missouri Review
, Fall.
D
AVID
M
ILLER
The Four Seasons Mini Almanac,
Wapsipinicon Almanac
, no. 19.
S
AM
J. M
ILLER
The Luke Letters,
Upstreet
, no. 8.
T
ONI
M
IROSEVICH
This Once Bright Thing,
Hayden’s Ferry Review
, no. 51.
D
EBRA
M
ONROE
Gray Area,
Guernica
, April 1.
A
MY
M
ONTICELLO
The Other Woman,
Iron Horse Literary Review
, vol. 14, no. 3.
D
INTY
W. M
OORE
Buried Alive,
Zone 3
, Fall.
C
OREY
M
ORRIS
Carp River,
Crab Orchard Review
, Summer/Fall.
S
ANDELL
M
ORSE
Hiding,
Ascent
, August 12.
S
COTT
N
ADELSON
I’m Your Man,
Iron Horse Literary Review
, vol. 14, no. 1.
A
LEXIS
N
ELSON
On Love and Memory,
Normal School
, Spring.
J
ACOB
N
EWBERRY
French Suite,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 17.
Summer,
Granta
, Winter.
R
OB
N
IXON
Baboon,
Sycamore Review
, Winter/Spring.
N
ANCY
N
ORDENSON
Prelude,
Lake Effect
, Spring.
M
ARK
O’C
ONNOR
Holy Ghosts,
Massachusetts Review
, Winter.
S
ARAH
A. O
DISHOO
Eat Me: Instructions from the Unseen,
Zone 3
, Spring.
A
RIKA
O
KRENT
Body Language,
Lapham’s Quarterly
, Spring.
B
RIAN
O
LIU
Friday the 13th,
Los Angeles Review
, Fall.
W. S
COTT
O
LSEN
Tag,
Tampa Review
, nos. 43 & 44.
R
ICHARD
O’M
ARA
Brothers,
Sewanee Review
, Summer.
M
ARK
O
PPENHEIMER
Who Needs Poetry?,
New York Times Magazine
, September 16.
P
ETER
O
RNER
Renters,
Fifth Wednesday
, Spring.
L
AUREN
C. O
STBERG
On Hair,
So to Speak
, Spring.
D
AVID
O
WEN
Scars,
The New Yorker
, March 19.
A
DRIANA
P
ARAMO
Oil Spills Remind Me of Him,
Compass Rose
, vol. 12.
A
LAN
M
ICHAEL
P
ARKER
Beach House as Nostalgia Museum,
The Believer
, November/December.
A
NN
P
ATCHETT
The Sense of an Ending,
Vogue
, September.
A
NDREW
P
AYTON
Family Medicine,
Bayou
, no. 57.
G
AIL
P
ECK
Child Waiting,
Apple Valley Review
, Spring.
J
EN
P
ERCY
The Guinea Pig Lady,
Ninth Letter
, Fall/Winter.
J
ENNIFER
P
ERCY
Bodies,
Witness
, Spring.
J
ED
P
ERL
Cash-and-Carry Aesthetics,
The Baffler
, no. 20.
A
NN
P
ETERS
The House on the Ledge,
Southwest Review
, vol. 97, no. 1.
H
ARRY
M
ARK
P
ETRAKIS
The Three Lost Men,
Notre Dame Review
, Summer/Fall.
D
AISY
P
ITKIN
An Algorithm,
Cutbank
, no. 77.
T
AYLOR
P
LIMPTON
My Father’s Voice,
TheNewYorker.com
, June 17.
E
ILEEN
P
OLLACK
Ranch House,
New England Review
, vol. 32, no. 4.
D
AWN
P
OTTER
Not Writing the Poem,
Sewanee Review
, Winter.
R
OLF
P
OTTS
Tourist Snapshots,
The Common
, no. 3.
R
OBERT
A
NDREW
P
OWELL
In the Writers’ Room,
Harper’s Magazine
, November.
K
RISTIN
P
REVALLET
Blood on the Illusion,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.
F
RANCINE
P
ROSE
The Giving Tree,
Real Simple
, May.
C
ORINNE
P
URTILL
My Book Was a Bad Idea,
Salon.com
, June 27.
M
ARY
Q
UADE
Hatch,
Flyway
, vol. 14, no. 3, & vol. 15, no. 1.
B
ERNARD
Q
UETCHENBACH
The Woods Are Burning,
Ascent
, November 12.
K
IERAN
Q
UINLAN
Kirwan Street, in Memory,
New Hibernia Review
, Winter.
C
OLIN
R
AFFERTY
Notes Toward Building the Monument,
Witness
, Spring.
J
ESSICA
R
AIMI
Ballet School,
Antioch Review
, Winter.
C
ATHERINE
R
EID
Catch and Release,
Under the Sun
, Summer.
J
AMES
R
IOUX
Tattoos, Death Metal, Shaving, and Other Ironies,
Five Points
, vol. 14, no. 3.
C
INTHIA
R
ITCHIE
Running,
Sport Literate
, vol. 8, no. 1.
J
OHN
G. R
ODWAN
Jr.
Nice Things About Detroit,
American Interest
, May/June.
J
AMES
S
ILAS
R
OGERS
Outside Metaphor,
Ruminate
, no. 22.
D
AVID
R
OMPF
A Personal History of Staring,
Hotel Amerika
, Spring.
L
EE
A
NN
R
ORIPAUGH
Poem as Mirror Box: Mirror Neurons, Emotions, Phantom Limbs, and Poems of Loss and Elegy,
jubilat
, no. 21.
N
OELLE
R
OSE
A Heart for Knowing,
Anderbo
, n.d.
N
ATANIA
R
OSENFELD
Gravity,
Fifth Wednesday
, Spring.
A
LEX
R
OSS
Love on the March,
The New Yorker
, November 12.
D
AVY
R
OTHBART
Human Snowball,
Paris Review
, Summer.
S
TEVEN
D. R
UCKER
A Terminal Chord,
Upstreet
, no. 8.
P
ATRICK
R
YAN
Grand Mal,
Granta.com
, October.
S
COTT
R
USSELL
S
ANDERS
The Way of Imagination,
Georgia Review
, Summer.
T
ED
S
ANDERS
The Playroom: A Diagram,
Southern Review
, Summer.
R
EG
S
ANER
Married Grammar: The Deep Structure,
College Hill Review
, no. 8, Summer.
R
ALPH
J
AMES
S
AVARESE
River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.
A
NNITA
S
AWYER
The Crazy One,
Bellevue Literary Review
, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring.
E
LIZABETH
S
CARBORO
No Man’s Land,
Bellevue Literary Review
, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall.
M
ELITA
S
CHAUM
Adam’s Curse,
Briar Cliff Review
, no. 24.
J
ILL
S
CHEPMANN
Our Country,
Parcel
, Fall.
B
RANDON
R. S
CHRAND
Esto Perpetua,
Ecotone
, Spring.
N
IKKI
S
CHULAK
On Not Seeing Whales,
Bellevue Literary Review
, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall.
G
RETA
S
CHULER
Empty Boxes,
Chattahoochee Review
, Spring.
S
TEVEN
S
CHWARTZ
The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being There,
Massachusetts Review
, Spring.
A
MY
L
EE
S
COTT
Convergence,
Gulf Coast
, Summer/Fall.
A
NDREW
D. S
CRIMGEOUR
Handled with Care,
New York Times Book Review
, December 30.
D
AVID
S
EDARIS
Understanding Owls,
The New Yorker
, October 22.
L
ORE
S
EGAL
The Exes in My Life,
Antioch Review
, Spring.
D
ANIELE
S
EISS
My Mother’s Ashes,
Washington Post Magazine
, May 13.
P
ETER
S
ELGIN
The Kuhreihen Melody,
Missouri Review
, Spring.
L
ISA
S
HANNON
Blindfolds,
Anderbo
, n.d.
B
ILL
S
HERWONIT
The Last Nature Writer,
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
, Winter.
D
AVID
S
HIELDS
Saving My Life,
Little Star
, no. 3.
T. M. S
HINE
American Idle,
Washington Post Magazine
, July 15.
J
AN
S
HOEMAKER
Believer,
Make
, Winter.
J
UDITH
S
HULEVITZ
The Grayest Generation,
New Republic
, December 20.
K
EANE
S
HUM
My Short American Decade,
Iowa Review
, Winter.
L
AUREN
S
LATER
The Spotless Mind,
Elle
, September.
A
NNE
-M
ARIE
S
LAUGHTER
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,
The Atlantic
, July/August.