Free rent at the totalitarian hotel / Poe Ballantine --
Sometimes a romantic notion / Richard Schmitt --
Highway of lost girls / Vanessa Veselka --
Keeper of the flame / Matthew Vollmer --
Breeds of America / William Melvin Kelley --
My father's women / Mako Yoshikawa --
Confessions of an ex-Mormon / Walter Kirn --
I'm jumping off the bridge / Kevin Sampsell --
Pigeons / Eileen Pollack --
Triage / Jon Kerstetter --
The art of being born / Marcia Aldrich --
What happens in hell / Charles Baxter --
The exhibit will be so marked / Ander Monson --
The girls in my town / Angela Morales --
Some notes on attunement / Zadie Smith --
His last game / Brian Doyle --
When they let them bleed / Tod Goldberg --
Field notes on hair / Vicki Weiqi Yang --
Letter from Majorca / J.D. Daniels --
Ghost estates / John Jeremiah Sullivan --
Channel B / Megan Stielstra --
A little bit of fun before he died / Dagoberto Gilb --
Epilogue: Deadkidistan / Michelle Mirsky --
El Camino Doloroso / David Searcy --
The book of knowledge / Steven Harvey.
