Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present Book

Contents

Foreword
Introduction by Scott Russell Sanders

Jo Ann Beard - The Fourth State of Matter

Wendell Berry - Getting Along with Nature

Eula Biss - The Pain Scale

Mary Clearman Blew - The Unwanted Child

Charles Bowden - Torch Song

Janet Burroway - Embalming Mom

Kelly Grey Carlisle - Physical Evidence

Anne Carson - The Glass Essay

Bernard Cooper - BurlÕs

Michael W. Cox - Visitor

Annie Dillard - Living Like Weasels

Mark Doty - Return to Sender

Brian Doyle - Leap

Tony Earley - Somehow Form a Family

Anthony Farrington - Kissing

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher - The Beautiful City of Tirzah

Diane Glancy - Sun Dance

Lucy Grealy - Mirrorings

William Harrison - Present Tense Africa

Robin Hemley - Reading History to My Mother

Adam Hochschild - World on a Hilltop

Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place

Barbara Kingsolver - High Tide in Tucson

Ted Kooser - Small Rooms in Time

Sara Levine - The Essayist Is Sorry for Your Loss

E. J. Levy - Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Phillip Lopate - Portrait of My Body 29

Barry Lopez - Flight

Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking

Lee Martin - Sorry

Rebecca McClanahan - Interstellar

Erin McGraw - Bad Eyes

John McPhee - The Search for Marvin Gardens

Brenda Miller - The Date

Dinty W. Moore - Son of Mr. Green Jeans

Kathleen Norris - CelibatePassion

Naomi Shihab Nye - This Is Not Who We Are

Lia Purpura - Autopsy Report

Richard Rhodes - Watching the Animals

Bill Roorbach - Shitdiggers, Mudflats, and the Worm Men of Maine

David Sedaris - Repeat After Me

Richard Selzer - Imelda

Sue William Silverman - The Pat Boone Fan Club

Floyd Skloot - A Measure of Acceptance

Lauren Slater - Black Swans

Cheryl Strayed - The Love of My Life

Amy Tan - Mother Tongue

Ryan Van Meter - If You Knew Then What I Know Now

David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster

Joy Williams - Hawk