The Best American Essays 2015 (39 page)

H
EAL
M
C
K
NIGHT

Traffic,
PMS
, no. 13.

J
OHN
M
C
P
HEE

Elicitation,
The New
Yorker
, April 7.

L
A
T
ANYA
M
C
Q
UEEN

Violin Dreams,
Grist
, no. 7.

S
UKETU
M
EHTA

Nina,
Harper's Magazine
, December.

E
DIE
M
EIDAV

The Dead Ones,
ZYZZYVA
, Spring/Summer.

M
ARISA
M
ELTZER

The Last Feminist Taboo,
Elle
, January.

S
ARAH
M
ENKEDICK

Living on the Hyphen,
Oxford American
, Fall.

M
ORTON
A.
M
EYERS

Lifelong Lessons,
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
, September.

B
ILLY
M
IDDLETON

The Fear of Secondhand Guilt,
River Styx
, no. 91/92.

J
ACK
M
ILES

Why God Will Not Die,
The
Atlantic
, December.

M
IKE
M
ILEY

Reading Wallace Reading,
Smart Set
, August 17.

M
ICHAEL
M
ILBURN

Home Grown,
Chicago Quarterly Review
, no. 17.

B
EN
M
ILLER

Village Bakery,
New
England Review
, vol. 35, no. 2.

J
IM
M
INICK

Drowning Dear,
Oxford
American
, Spring.

T
HOMAS
M
IRA Y
L
OPEZ

Etiology,
Cut
Bank
, no. 81.

R
YAN
M
ITCHELL

Ashley and I,
Under
the Gum Tree
, April.

H
AROON
M
OGHUL

The Late Great Mosque of Cordoba,
Tikkun
, Winter.

D
AVE
M
ONDY

How Things Break,
Iowa Review
, Winter.

D
EBRA
M
ONROE

On the Down-Low,
Florida Review
, vol. 38, nos. 1 & 2.

A
NDER
M
ONSON

The Problem with Memory,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 48, no. 3.

S
ARAH
F
AWN
M
ONTGOMERY

Syndicated Silence,
Southeast Review
, vol. 32, no. 1.

A
NGELA
M
ORALES

Bloodyfeathers,
Chattahoochee Review
, Fall/Winter.

D
IONISIA
M
ORALES

Homing Instincts,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 18.

S
USAN
M
OREHOUSE

What You Said; What I Meant,
New Ohio Review
, Fall.

C. E. M
ORGAN

My Friend, Nothing Is in Vain,
Oxford American
, Spring.

J
AN
M
ORRIS

Keep Smiling,
American Scholar
, Summer.

M
ERRITT
M
OSELEY

Evening, All,
New
England Review
, vol. 34, no. 3/4.

E
LIZABETH
M
OSIER

Believers,
Cleaver
Magazine
, June.

L
AURA
M
ULLEN

Ghost Story,
Witness
, Spring.

A
LEX
M
YERS

Just Like . . . ,
Hobart Web
, January 9.

O
DED
N
A'AMAN

Mortal Risks,
Boston
Review
, March/April.

D
AVID
N
AIMON

Third Ear,
Fourth
Genre
, Spring.

M
ARA
N
ASELLI

On Being a Mother,
Kenyon Review
, Summer.

N
ICK
N
EELY

Slow Flame,
Harvard
Review Online
, April 22.

C
HRISTINA
N
ETTLES

Death of an Independent Bookstore,
PMS
, no. 13.

M
AUD
N
EWTON

America's Ancestry Craze,
Harper's Magazine
, June.

C
HRISTINA
N
ICHOL

Infinite Village,
Subtropics
, Fall/Winter.

J
AY
B
ARON
N
ICORVO

Jesus Was a Surfer,
Ploughshares
, Fall.

The Miracle of Mentors,
Poets & Writers
, January/February.

A
MY
N
OLAN

My Mother's Hips,
Ruminate
, Summer.

J
AMES
N
OLAN

I'll Be Watching You,
Boulevard
, Spring.

N
ANCY
J. N
ORDENSON

Two-Part Invention,
Harvard Divinity Bulletin
, Summer/Autumn.

J
OYCE
C
AROL
O
ATES

The Childhood of the Reader,
Conjunctions
, no. 63.

P
EGGY
O
'B
RIEN

Telling the Time with Emily Dickinson,
Massachusetts
Review
, Fall.

C
OLETTE
O'C
ONNOR

Bruno in the Afternoon,
Iron Horse Literary Review
, vol. 16, no. 6.

J
OE
O
ESTREICH

The Botch Job,
Creative
Nonfiction
, Fall.

M
EGAN
O'G
IEBLYN

Hell: The New Strategy for Dealing with Damnation,
The
Point
, no. 9.

K
EN
O
LSEN

Pain's Addiction,
American Legion
, April.

S
TEPHEN
O
RNES

Archimedes on the Fence,
The Last Word on Nothing
, May 23.

R
ANDY
O
SBORNE

All Sorts of Things and Weather, Taken in Together,
Full
Grown People
, February 27.

G
EORGE
P
ACKER

Cheap Words,
The
New Yorker
, February 17/24.

L
ARRY
I. P
ALMER

The Haircut,
New
England Review
, vol. 35, no. 1.

A
DRIANA
P
ARAMO

Un Cabron in Kuwait,
Columbia
, no. 52.

P
ATRICIA
P
ARK

How to Run a Supermarket,
Fourth Genre
, Spring.

L
EE
P
ATTON

Howling Grounds and Scorched Earth,
Under the Sun
, Summer.

A
LEXANDRIA
P
EARY

Holes and Walls,
New England Review
, vol. 35, no. 3.

R
ACHEL
P
ECKHAM

Graven Images,
Southern Indiana Review
, Fall.

A
PRIL
B
LEVINS
P
EJIC

A History We Can Live With,
Arcadia
, Fall.

D
ANNY
P
ENNY

A Model Camp,
Slice
, no. 15.

J
ED
P
ERL

Liberals Against Art,
New
Republic
, August 25.

A
NNE
H
ELEN
P
ETERSEN

Confidently Yours,
The Believer
, May.

P
AMELA
P
ETRO

Flow,
Slab
, no. 9.

C
ARL
P
HILLIPS

Foliage,
Kenyon
Review
, Fall.

C
LAIRE
P
HILLIPS

Hanging from the Chandeliers,
Black Clock
, no. 19.

M
ARK
P
HILLIPS

Songs,
Notre Dame
Magazine
, Autumn.

J
OHN
P
ICARD

At the Creation Museum,
North Dakota Quarterly
, Winter.

C
ECILIA
P
INTO

Cups,
New Ohio Review
, Spring.

M
IYA
P
LEINES

These Orbits, Crossing,
1996: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
, vol. 2, no. 1.

A
RTHUR
P
LOTNIK

Wrong Turn,
Creative Nonfiction
, Fall.

J
AY
P
ONTERI

In Defense of Navel-Gazing,
Oregon Humanities Review
, Spring.

L
IZA
P
ORTER

Labyrinth,
Passages North
, no. 35.

N
ICK
F
RANCIS
P
OTTER

Debbie,
Parcel
, Fall/Winter.

M
ELISSA
P
RITCHARD

On Bibliomancy, Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, and the Eating Papers; or Proust's Porridge,
Conjunctions
, no. 63.

J
OHN
P
ROCTOR

The Question of Influence,
Normal School
, Fall.

J
EDEDIAH
P
URDY

The Accidental Neoliberal,
n+1
, no. 19.

L
IA
P
URPURA

Metaphor Studies,
Harvard Review
, no. 45.

J
ONATHAN
R
AUCH

The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis,
The Atlantic
, December.

R
OBERT
R
EBEIN

A Fire on the Moon,
Ruminate
, Summer.

D
EE
R
EDFEARN

Paper Cut,
North Dakota
Quarterly
, Winter.

J
OHN
J
ULIUS
R
EEL

My Darlings: An Autobiographical Essay,
Human Life
Review
, Spring.

A
RNOLD
R
ELMAN

On Breaking One's Neck,
New York Review of Books
, February 6.

E
MILY
R
ICH

Jailbait,
The Pinch
, Fall.

F
RANK
R
ICH

Nothing You Think Matters Today Will Matter the Same Way Tomorrow,
New York
, October 20/November 2.

D
AN
R
ILEY

I'm Only into Jean-George's Early Stuff,
GQ.com
, April.

S
UZANNE
R
OBERTS

The Same Story,
Creative Nonfiction
, Fall.

T
ARA
R
OBERTS

The Smallest of the Small,
Bayou
, no. 61.

R
OXANA
R
OBINSON

The Warrior and the Writer,
War, Literature, and the Arts
, no. 26.

J
OHN
G. R
ODWAN
, J
R
.

Greetings from Detroit,
Belt Magazine
, April 4.

J
AMES
S
ILAS
R
OGERS

Speed Graphic: November 2013,
Still Point Arts
Quarterly
, Winter.

L
EE
A
NN
R
ORIPAUGH

Loop-de-Loop,
South Dakota Review
, Summer.

D
ANIEL
A
SA
R
OSE

Am I Hurting You, Dear?
New York Observer
, November 21.

J
OANNA
R
OSE

The Thing with Feathers,
Oregon Humanities Review
, Spring.

N
ATANIA
R
OSENFELD

On Being Ashamed; Or, Shit, Race, and Death,
Michigan Quarterly Review
, Winter.

J
IM
R
OSS

This Is How I Post,
Morning News
, May 28.

A
LLIE
R
OWBOTTON

World of Blue,
Hunger Mountain
, no. 18.

E
LIZABETH
R
OYTE

The Remains of the Night,
Medium.com
, January.

N
ORMAN
R
USH

On Nudity,
Granta
, no. 126.

K
ENT
R
USSELL

Enforcers,
n+1
, no. 20.

K
ATIE
R
YDER

Indian Lake,
The Believer
, January.

O
LIVER
S
ACKS

The Mental Life of Plants and Worms, Among Others,
New York
Review of Books
, April 24.

D
AVID
S
AMUELS