简介
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes from great pain." The twenty powerful essays in this volume are culled from periodicals ranging from The Sun to The New Yorker, from Crab Orchard Review to Vanity Fair. In "Missing Bellow," Scott Turow reflects on the death of an author he never met, but one who "overpowered me in a way no other writer had." Adam Gopnik confronts a different kind of death, that of his five-year-old daughter's pet fish -- a demise that churns up nothing less than "the problem of consciousness and the plotline of Hitchock's Vertigo." A pet is center stage as well in Susan Orlean's witty and compassionate saga of a successful hunt for a stolen border collie. Poe Ballantine chronicles a raw-nerved pilgrimage in search of salvation, solace, and a pretty brunette, and Laurie Abraham, in "Kinsey and Me," journeys after the man who dared to plumb the mysteries of human desire. Marjorie Williams gives a harrowing yet luminous account of her life with cancer, and Michele Morano muses on the grammar of the subjunctive mood while proving that "in language, as in life, moods are complicated, but at least in language there are only two."
目录
Foreword Robert Atwan p. ix
Introduction Lauren Slater p. xv
Kinsey and Me Laurie Abraham p. 1
from Elle
501 Minutes to Christ Poe Ballantine p. 11
from The Sun
Teaching the N-Word Emily Bernard p. 25
from The American Scholar
City Out of Breath Ken Chen p. 43
from Manoa
Beginning Dialogues Toi Derricotte p. 48
from Creative Nonfiction
The Culture of Celebrity Joseph Epstein p. 54
from The Weekly Standard
Whistling in the Dark Eugene Goodheart p. 70
from The Sewanee Review
Death of a Fish Adam Gopnik p. 85
from The New Yorker
Relief Kim Dana Kupperman p. 96
from Hotel Amerika
Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood Michele Morano p. 107
from Crab Orchard Review
Lost Dog Susan Orlean p. 122
from The New Yorker
George Sam Pickering p. 133
from Southwest Review
Shame Robert Polito p. 153
from Black Clock
Illness as More Than Metaphor David Rieff p. 159
from The New York Times Magazine
Recalled to Life Oliver Sacks p. 172
from The New Yorker
Confessions of a Left-Handed Man Peter Selgin p. 185
from The Literary Review
Why Write? Alan Shapiro p. 197
from The Cincinnati Review
Group Grief Lily Tuck p. 208
from The Hudson Review
Missing Bellow Scott Turow p. 225
from The Atlantic Monthly
A Matter of Life and Death Marjorie Williams p. 238
from Vanity Fair
Biographical Notes p. 265
Notable Essays of 2005 p. 270
Introduction Lauren Slater p. xv
Kinsey and Me Laurie Abraham p. 1
from Elle
501 Minutes to Christ Poe Ballantine p. 11
from The Sun
Teaching the N-Word Emily Bernard p. 25
from The American Scholar
City Out of Breath Ken Chen p. 43
from Manoa
Beginning Dialogues Toi Derricotte p. 48
from Creative Nonfiction
The Culture of Celebrity Joseph Epstein p. 54
from The Weekly Standard
Whistling in the Dark Eugene Goodheart p. 70
from The Sewanee Review
Death of a Fish Adam Gopnik p. 85
from The New Yorker
Relief Kim Dana Kupperman p. 96
from Hotel Amerika
Grammar Lessons: The Subjunctive Mood Michele Morano p. 107
from Crab Orchard Review
Lost Dog Susan Orlean p. 122
from The New Yorker
George Sam Pickering p. 133
from Southwest Review
Shame Robert Polito p. 153
from Black Clock
Illness as More Than Metaphor David Rieff p. 159
from The New York Times Magazine
Recalled to Life Oliver Sacks p. 172
from The New Yorker
Confessions of a Left-Handed Man Peter Selgin p. 185
from The Literary Review
Why Write? Alan Shapiro p. 197
from The Cincinnati Review
Group Grief Lily Tuck p. 208
from The Hudson Review
Missing Bellow Scott Turow p. 225
from The Atlantic Monthly
A Matter of Life and Death Marjorie Williams p. 238
from Vanity Fair
Biographical Notes p. 265
Notable Essays of 2005 p. 270
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