The Best American Essays 2016 (57 page)

A
BE
S
TREEP

In Search of a Stolen Fiddle,
Harper’s Magazine
, May

S
ARAH
A
.
S
TRICKLEY

The Beverly Hills Supper Club: An Assemblage of Failures,
The Normal School
, vol. 8, no. 1

I
RA
S
UKRUNGRUANG

The First Transgression,
Midwestern Gothic
, Fall

K
ELLY
S
UNDBERG

Whirling Disease,
Denver Quarterly
, vol. 49, no. 3

C
AROLINE
S
UTTON

A Paper Trail,
North American Review
, Spring

L
EOPOLD
S
ZOR

Obligation,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Fall

J
ILL
T
ALBOT

The Fiction of History,
The Normal School
, vol. 8, no. 1

A
DINA
T
ALVE-
G
OODMAN

I Must Have Been That Man,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Spring

S
IMON
T
AM

Trademark Offense,
Oregon Humanities
, Summer

R
ON
T
ANNER

The Last Draft,
The Louisville Review
, Spring

A
SHLEY
P
.
T
AYLOR

Crying: An Exploration,
BrainDecoder
, December 2

K
AREN
D
.
T
AYLOR

Still Occupied,
Transition
, no. 118

M
ATTHEW
T
EAGUE

The Friend,
Esquire
, May

G
AURAV
R
AJ
T
ELHAN

Begin Cutting,
The Virginia Quarterly Review
, Fall

K
ERRY
T
EMPLE

The Sun in Our Midst,
Notre Dame Magazine
, Spring

B
RANDON
M
.
T
ERRY

After Ferguson,
The Point
, Summer

C
LIFFORD
T
HOMSON

On the Bus,
The Threepenny Review
, Spring

R
ICHARD
T
ILLINGHAST

Four Directions,
The Sewanee Review
, Summer

L
AD
T
OBIN

The Permission Slip,
The Sun
, November

J
OYCE
T
OMLINSON

Invasion of the Oldies,
The Gold Man Review
, no. 4

A
LISON
T
OWNSEND

California Girl,
Catamaran
, Fall

The Scent of Always: A Personal History, with Perfume,
The Southern Review
, Winter

P
ATRICK
T
RIPP

Refills,
The Threepenny Review
, Fall

L
ORI
T
UCKER-
S
ULLIVAN

Detroit, 2015,
Midwestern Gothic
, Fall

M
ATT
T
ULLIS

The Ghosts I Run With,
SB Nation
, April 15

B
RIAN
T
URNER

Smoking with the Dead and Wounded,
The Georgia Review
, Fall

D
AVID
L
.
U
LIN

Fifteen Takes on California,
The Virginia Quarterly Review
, Summer

S
PRING
U
LMER

Bubbles,
Crab Orchard Review
, Summer/Fall

G
ERI
U
RLEY

13th & B,
The Carolina Quarterly
, Fall

D
AVID
J
.
U
NGER

Fail Again,
The Point
, Summer

L
EE
U
PTON

A Reverse Alphabet for Finishing,
The Kenyon Review
, January/February

A
LGIS
V
ALIUNAS

The Man Who Thought of Everything,
The New Atlantis
, Spring

J
EANNIE
V
ANASCO

What’s in a Necronym?
The Believer
, Summer

A
NDREA
V
ASSALLO

Breathe,
Solstice
, Fall/Winter

P
ATRICIA
V
IGDERMAN

Out of the Shadows,
Harvard Review
, no. 48

J
ODY
N
OEL
V
INSON

The Way to Swann’s House,
The Gettysburg Review
, Summer

S
ARAH
V
IREN

A Ballad for You,
storySouth
, Fall

R
OBERT
V
IVIAN

Gobsmack Essay,
Profane
, Winter

J
ERALD
W
ALKER

The Heritage Room,
Apogee
, no. 6

N
ICOLE
W
ALKER

Tongue,
Witness
, Spring

F
RANK
W
ALTERS

The Wave That Tears at Us,
Bellevue Literary Review
, Fall

E
SME
W
EIJUN
W
ANG

Toward a Pathology of the Possessed,
The Believer
, Fall

G
INA
W
ARREN

The Chicken Project,
Orion
, July/August

C
LAIRE
V
AYE
W
ATKINS

On Pandering,
Tin House
, no. 66

L
EON
W
EINMANN

Bodies of Water,
The Literary Review
, Summer

J
ILLIAN
W
EISE

Why I Own a Gun,
Tin House
, no. 65

W
IL
W
EITZEL

Green Eyes of Harar,
Conjunctions
, no. 64

J
IM
W
HITE

Glossolalia,
Epiphany
, Fall

C
HRIS
W
IEWIORA

Submerged,
Story Magazine
, March

K
ATHRYN
W
ILDER

Sundance,
Southern Indiana Review
, Spring

C
HRISTIAN
W
IMAN

Kill the Creature,
The American Scholar
, Spring

A
RIEL
W
INTER

Tales of Grandma Whittier,
Slice
, no. 17

M
ELORA
W
OLFF

Mystery Girls,
Southern Indiana Review
, Fall

L
AURA
E
STHER
W
OLFSON

After the Autobiography,
Superstition Review
, July

B
ARON
W
ORMSER

Harrisong,
Five Points
, vol. 16, no. 3

G
REG
W
RENN

Innocence,
KROnline
, Summer

X
U
X
I

The English of My Story,
Lake Effect
, no. 19

A
MY
Y
EE

Exporting Clothes, Importing Safety,
Roads and Kingdoms
, August 27

L
EE
Z
ACHARIAS

A Circle, a Line, an Island,
Our State
, May

J
ESS
Z
IMMERMAN

A Midlife Crisis, by Any Other Name,
Hazlitt
, July 20

D
AVE
Z
OBY

Hobart Dreams,
The Missouri Review
, Summer

Notable Special Issues of 2015

The Antioch Review
, “The Educated Heart,” ed. Robert S. Fogarty, Fall.

The Baffler
, “Venus in Furs,” ed. John Summers, no. 27.

The Chattahoochee Review
, “Migration,” ed. Anna Schachner, Fall/Winter.

Conjunctions
, “Natural Causes,” ed. Bradford Morrow, no. 64.

Creative Nonfiction
, “The Memoir,” ed. Lee Gutkind, Spring.

Daedalus
, “What Is the Brain Good For?” guest editor, Fred H. Gage, Winter.

Ecotone
, “The Sound Issue,” ed. David Gessner, Fall.

Freeman’s
, “Arrival,” ed. John Freeman, 2015.

Granta
, “India: Another Way of Seeing,” guest editor, Ian Jack, no. 130.

Harper’s Magazine
, “How to Be a Parent,” August.

Hayden’s Ferry Review
, “Borderlands,” ed. Chelsea Hickok, Fall/Winter.

Hunger Mountain
, “The Body Issue,” ed. Miciah Bay Gault, no. 19.

Image
, “Reading from Two Books: Nature, Scripture, and Evolution,” ed. Gregory Wolfe, no. 85.

Iron Horse Literary Review
, Kirk Wisland, “Melancholy of Falling Men” (single-author issue), ed. Leslie Jill Patterson, vol. 17, no.5.

The Literary Review
, “Flight,” ed. Minna Proctor, Fall.

MAKE
, “The Value of What’s Forgotten,” ed. Jose-Luis Moctezuma, no. 16.

Midwestern Gothic
, nonfiction issue, ed. Jeff Pfaller and Robert James Russell, Fall.

The Missouri Review
, “Loners,” ed. Speer Morgan, Spring.

n+1
, “Conviction,” ed. Nikil Saval and Dayna Tortorici, Spring.

The Nation
, 150th anniversary issue, ed. Katrina Vanden Heuvel and D. D. Guttenplan, April.

New Literary History
, “Song,” ed. Jahan Ramazani and Herbert F. Tucker, Autumn.

North Dakota Quarterly
, “Slow,” ed. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and William Caraher, vol. 80, no. 2.

Oregon Humanities
, “Safe,” ed. Kathleen Holt, Summer.

Orion
, “Writing and Art from America’s Prisons,” ed. Richard Shelton, January/February.

Prairie Schooner
, “Sports,” guest editor, Natalie Diaz, Winter.

Room
, “Fieldwork,” ed. Tayrn Hubbard, vol. 38, no. 4.

Salmagundi
, “The Best of Salmagundi” (50th anniversary issue), ed. Robert Boyers and Peg Boyers, Winter/Spring.

The Sewanee Review
, “Folded Sunsets: At Home and Abroad,” ed. George Core, Summer.

Slice
, “Desire,” ed. Maria Gagliano, Celia Blue Johnson, and ElizabethBlachman, no. 17.

The Threepenny Review
, “A Symposium on Jokes,” ed. Wendy Lesser, Fall.

Tin House
, “Theft,” ed. Rob Spillman, no. 65.

Vice
, “The Prison Issue,” ed. Ellis Jones, October.

Water-Stone Review
, “All We Cannot Alter,” ed. Mary Francois Rockcastle, no. 18.

Witness
, “Trans/lation,” ed. Maile Chapman, Spring.

Corrections:

Apologies to Jaquira Díaz, whose “Ordinary Girls” appears in this volume. Because of a printing mishap, the spelling of her last name was mangled in the list of “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014,” which included her essay “My Mother and Mercy” from the August issue of
The Sun
.

The following essays should also have appeared in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014”:

A
LEXANDER
C
HEE
, Mr. & Mrs. B,
Apology
, Winter

B
ETTINA
D
REW
, The Great Amnesia,
Southwest Review
, vol. 99, no. 4

S
ONJA
L
IVINGSTON
, Mock Orange,
Water-Stone Review
, no. 17

J
OHN
S
.
O
’
C
ONNOR
, The Ice House,
Under the Sun
, July 31

N
ED
S
TUCKEY-
F
RENCH
, Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing,
Assay
, Fall