To the reader - - And / Gay Davenport
The search for Marvin Gardens / John McPhee
Unguided tour / Susan Sontag
The white album / Joan Didion
May morning / James Wright
Country cooking from Central France: roast boned rolled stuffed shoulder of lamb (Farce double) / Harry Mathews
Total eclipse / Annie Dillard
The theory and practice of postmodernism: a manifesto / David Antin
The dream of India / Eliot Weinberger
Erato/Love poetry / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
The marionette theater / Dennis Silk
Kinds of water / Anne Carson
Notes toward a history of scaffolding / Susan Mitchell
"...and nobody objected" / Paul Metcalf
Captivity / Sherman Alexie
Red shoes / Susan Griffin
Black / Alexander Theroux
Foucault and pencil / Lydia Davis
Life story / David Shields
Ticket to the fair / David Foster Wallace
Darling's prick / Wayne Koestenbaum
The intercession of the saints / Carole Maso