CONTENTS
Joe Fassler: Preface
Aimee Bender: Light the Dark
Sherman Alexie: Leaving the Reservation of the Mind
Elizabeth Gilbert: In Praise of Stubborn Gladness
Stephen King: You’ve Been Here Before
Junot Díaz: A Friend of the Mind
William Gibson: The Handshake
Khaled Hosseini: Everything I Meant to Say
Andre Dubus III: Do Not Think, Dream
Mary Gaitskill: I Don’t Know You Anymore
Michael Chabon: To Infinity and Beyond
Walter Mosley: How I Awoke
Edwidge Danticat: All Immigrants Are Artists
Billy Collins: Into the Deep Heart’s Core
Kathryn Harrison: Please StopThinking
David Mitchell: Neglect Everything Else
Roxane Gay: Dreaming in Drag
Tom Perrotta: Ordinary People
Ayana Mathis: Against Unreality
Jim Shepard: No One Ever Changes
Leslie Jamison: On Commonness
Jonathan Lethem: Letting the Leopards In
Jesse Ball: The Edge of Sense
Angela Flournoy: A Place to Call My Own
Lev Grossman: Into the Wardrobe, into the Self
Yiyun Li: Strangers on a Train
Maggie Shipstead: Time Passes
Jeff Tweedy: Translating the Subconscious
Nell Zink: The Long Game
Charles Simic: Lifting the Blanket
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Follow This Voice
Emma Donoghue: You and Me
Claire Messud: Words on Paper Will Outlast Us
Jane Smiley: Nobody Asked You to Write That Novel
Jonathan Franzen: My Favorite Curmudgeon
Hanya Yanagihara: Writing for Right Now
Ben Marcus: Recommended Dosage
Mark Haddon: Music for Misfits
T.C. Boyle: How Stories Say Goodbye
Ethan Canin: Rehearsals for Death
Eileen Myles: Happy Accidents
Marilynne Robinson: The Brain Is Larger Than the Sea
Neil Gaiman: Random Joy
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