Introduction

by Bill Styron (missing author)

Letter to an Editor

HEARTBREAK: Terrific Mother

by Lorrie Moore

HEARTBREAK: Elms

by Jonathan Galassi (missing author)

HEARTBREAK: The Fine Art of Sighing

by Bernard Cooper (missing author)

HEARTBREAK: Intensive Care

by Heather McHugh (missing author)

HEARTBREAK: Careful

by Raymond Carver —also in Cathedral

HEARTBREAK: To Urania

by Joseph Brodsky (missing author)

MADNESS: Zelda: A Worksheet

by Zelda Fitzgerald (missing author)

MADNESS: Lunar Caustic

by Malcolm Lowry (missing author)

MADNESS: Delirium

by Barbara Hamby (missing author)

MADNESS: Autobiography

by Susan Mitchell (missing author)

MADNESS: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

by Bobbie Ann Mason (missing author)

MADNESS: The Ascent of Mount Carmel

by Robert Stone (missing author)

SEX: Alice

by Donald Barthelme

SEX: Rimininny!

by S.X. Rosenstock (missing author)

SEX: Two Cunts in Paris

by John Updike

SEX: The Art of Fiction CLXIII

by William T. Vollmann

SEX: The Art of Fiction CLXXII

by Vladimir Nabokov

SEX: The Art of Fiction XL

by Louis Begley (missing author)

SEX: With a Potpourri from Down Under

by Richard Howard (missing author)

SEX: Le Jet d’Eau

by Anthony Hecht (missing author)

SEX: The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven

by Rick Moody

an excerpt, starting at section II

SEX: The Art of Fiction CXXXIV

by Toni Morrison

SEX: The Art of Fiction CXXI

by Margaret Atwood

SEX: A Liberal Education

by Mordecai Richler

LOVE: Little Expressionless Animals

by David Foster Wallace —also in Girl with Curious Hair

LOVE: Cyprian

by Rosanna Warren (missing author)

LOVE: The Art of Poetry LXXI

by Ted Hughes (missing author)

LOVE: The Art of Fiction CL

by Jeanette Winterson (missing author)

LOVE: The Art of Fiction CV

by Edmund White (missing author)

LOVE: To the French Language

by Kenneth Koch (missing author)

LOVE: Los Dos Rancheros

by Charlie Smith (missing author)

LOVE: Pearls

by Michael Cunningham

LOVE: Everything

by A.R. Ammons (missing author)

BETRAYAL: Lorena

by Lucille Clifton (missing author)

BETRAYAL: Migraine Sonnets

by Marilyn Hacker (missing author)

BETRAYAL: Chez Lambert

an excerpt from The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

BETRAYAL: You Must Relax!

by Joanna Scott (missing author)

BETRAYAL: Marriage Song

by Beth Gylys (missing author)

BETRAYAL: The Beet Queen

by Louise Erdrich (missing author)

OUTSIDERS: Tugboat Syndrome

by Jonathan Lethem

OUTSIDERS: The Art of Fiction XVII

Truman Capote interview (missing author)

OUTSIDERS: Against Winter

by Charles Simic (missing author)

OUTSIDERS: Thirty-three

by Adrienne Rich

OUTSIDERS: Funes the Memorious

by Jorge Luis Borges —also in A Personal Anthology

OUTSIDERS: Spaceships Have Landed

by Alice Munro

INTOXICATION: It’s Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?

by Jay McInerney

INTOXICATION: Edmund Wilson

an excerpt from Mary McCarthy's "intellectual autobiography"

INTOXICATION: The Guest

by Stanley Elkin (missing author)

INTOXICATION: The Art of Fiction XII

interview with William Faulkner (missing author)

INTOXICATION: The Art of Fiction XCIII

interview with John Irving

INTOXICATION: The Art of Journalism I

interview with Hunter S. Thompson (missing author)

INTOXICATION: The Art of Fiction XXXVI

interview with William Burroughs (missing author)

INTOXICATION: The Basketball Diaries

an excerpt by Jim Carroll (missing author)

INTOXICATION: Car-Crash While Hitchhiking

by Denis Johnson

WAR: Last Comes the Raven

by Italo Calvino

WAR: Blind White Fish in Belgium

by Paul West (missing author)

WAR: The Art of Fiction CXL

interview with Primo Levi

WAR: The Art of Poetry V

interview with Ezra Pound (missing author)

WAR: The Art of Fiction LXIV

interview by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

WAR: The Ends

by Peter Ho Davies (missing author)

WAR: Pearl Harbor

by Frank O'Hara (missing author)

WAR: Conquerer

by W.S. Merwin (missing author)

WAR: The Art of Theater III

interview with Harold Pinter (missing author)

WAR: The Dead Soldier’s Talk

poem by Ha Jin (missing author)

WAR: The Art of Fiction CXLIX

by John le Carré (missing author)

WAR: The Art of Fiction CXLIII

by Susan Sontag

WAR: Terminus

by Nicholas Christopher

WAR: A Prayer to the Sun

by Geoffrey Hill (missing author)

WHIMSY: How to Travel with a Salmon

by Umberto Eco

WHIMSY: The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby

by Edward Gorey (missing author)

WHIMSY: Milking the Moon

by Eugene Walter (missing author)

WHIMSY: Pomework: An Exercise in Occasional Poetry

WHIMSY: The Plato Club

by James Merrill and David Jackson (missing author)

HORRORS: The Little Girl

by Grace Paley

HORRORS: Lackawanna

by Galway Kinnell (missing author)

HORRORS: The Art of Fiction CLXXIII

interview by Ian McEwan

HORRORS: Heat

by Joyce Carol Oates (missing author)

HORRORS: Home and Away

an excerpt by Rachel Wetzsteon

HORRORS: The Broom: The New Wife’s Tale

by Charles Tomlinson

HORRORS: Ailanthus

by Vijay Seshadri

HORRORS: In the Country of Last Things

by Paul Auster

GOD: The Conversion of the Jews

by Philip Roth

GOD: The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh

by Pattiann Rogers

GOD: A Roadside Resurrection

by Larry Brown

GOD: The Breath

by Robert Bly

GOD: The Saint

by Gabriel García Márquez

GOD: Memory Cave

by Yusef Komunyakaa

GOD: Snakes

by Susan Power (missing author)

DEATH: City Midnight Junk Strains

by Allen Ginsburg (missing author)

DEATH: The Virgin Suicides

excerpt by Jeffrey Eugenides

DEATH: Picnic, Lightning

by Billy Collins

DEATH: The Art of Poetry LXXV

by Seamus Heaney

DEATH: The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

an excerpt from A.S. Byatt (missing author)

DEATH: Letter After an Estrangement

by Priscilla Becker (missing author)

DEATH: Aqua Boulevard

by Maile Meloy (missing author)

DEATH: The Saving

by Robert Pinsky (missing author)

DEATH: Sacred Heart

by Thom Gunn (missing author)

DEATH: Return

by John Montague (missing author)

DEATH: A Work in Progress

by Norman Mailer

DINNER: In the Belly of the Cat

by Daniel S. Libman (missing author)

DINNER: Oysters

by Gary Snyder (missing author)

DINNER: The Art of Fiction XLVIII

interview with Anthony Burgess

DINNER: Non-Vegetarian

by Marie Ponsot (missing author)

DINNER: The Devil’s Larder

by Jim Crace

BASEBALL: Batting Against Castro

by Jim Shepard (missing author)

BASEBALL: Curt Flood

by Anne Waldman (missing author)

BASEBALL: The Third Inning

by Donald Hall (missing author)

BASEBALL: The Hector Quesadilla Story

by T. Coraghessan Boyle (missing author)

TRAVELS: The Mexican Girl

by Jack Kerouac (missing author)

TRAVELS: Exodus

by Robyn Selman (missing author)

TRAVELS: Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989

by Joel Brouwer

TRAVELS: TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)

by Anne Carson

TRAVELS: A History of Paisley

by Agha Shahid Ali (missing author)

TRAVELS: The Interior of North Dakota

by Barry Lopez (missing author)

TRAVELS: The Art of Fiction LXXVIII

by James Baldwin

TRAVELS: The Art of Poetry XXX

by Philip Larkin

TRAVELS: The Art of Fiction CLIV

interview with V.S. Naipaul (missing author)

TRAVELS: Her Real Name

by Charles D'Ambrosio (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: Musica Reservata

by John Ashbery

THE ART OF WRITING: At a Reading

by J.D. McClatchy (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: Making It

by John Hollander (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: Correspondence

Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson

THE ART OF WRITING: from On the Literary Life

by John Cheever

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CLXXIII

by Ian McEwan

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction LXIX

by Gabriel García Márquez

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CXX

by Mario Vargas Llosa

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Theater V

by Tennessee Williams

THE ART OF WRITING: A Radio Interview

interview with Gertrude Stein (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Poetry XLII

interview with Octavio Paz (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction XCIV

interview with E.L. Doctorow

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction LI

interview with Joseph Heller

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CXXX

by Italo Calvino

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CXXXIX

interview with Chinua Achebe

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction LXVII

interview with Paul Bowles

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction XLIII

by John Updike

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CVI

interview with John Mortimer

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Poetry X

interview with Robert Creeley (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction XVI

interview with Thornton Wilder (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Theater XII

interview with Wendy Wasserstein (missing author)

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction XXI

by Ernest Hemingway

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CXXXIII

by James Salter

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction CXXXV

by Don DeLillo

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction XXVIII

interview with Henry Miller

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction XII

by William Faulkner

THE ART OF WRITING: The Art of Fiction LXXXVII

interview with Elizabeth Hardwick