Introduction / Marjorie Williams. Introduction / by Lauren Slater -- A matter of life and death / Laurie Abraham -- 501 minutes to Christ / Poe Ballantine -- Teaching the N-word / Emily Bernard -- City out of breath / Ken Chen -- Beginning dialogues / Toi Derricotte -- The culture of celebrity / Joseph Epstein -- Whistling in the dark / Eugene Goodheart -- Death of a fish / Adam Gopnik -- Relief / Kim Dana Kupperman -- Grammar lessons: the subjunctive / Michele Morano -- Lost dog / Susan Orlean -- George / Sam Pickering -- Shame / Robert Polito -- Illness as more than metaphor / David Rieff -- Recalled to life / David Sacks -- Confessions of a left-handed man / Peter Selgin -- Why write? / Alan Shapiro -- Group grief / Lily Tuck -- Missing Bellow / Scott Turow -- A matter of life and death / Marjorie Williams.
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