Foreword by Robert Atwan
Introduction by Adam Gopnik

PATRICIA BRIESCHKE. Cracking Open
from PMS

RICH COHEN. Becoming Adolf
from Vanity Fair

BERNARD COOPER. The Constant Gardener
from Los Angeles

ATUL GAWANDE. The Way We Age Now
from The New Yorker

ALBERT GOLDBARTH. Everybody's Nickname
from The Georgia Review

Emily R. GROSHOLZ. On Necklaces
from Prairie Schooner

ANTHONY LANE. Candid Camera
from The New Yorker

JONATHAN LETHEM. The Ecstasy of Influence
from Harper's Magazine

ARIEL LEVY. The Lesbian Bride's Handbook
from New York

JAMAL MAHJOUB. Salamanca
from Transition

LOUIS MENAND. Notable Quotables
from The New Yorker

ANDER MONSON. Solipsism
from Pinch

RICK MOODY, On Celestial Music
from Salmagundi

HUGH RAFFLES. Cricket Fighting
from Granta

DAVID SEDARIS. This Old House
from The New Yorker

SAM SHAW. Run Like Fire Once More
from Harper's Magazine

CHARLES SIMIC. The Renegade
from The New York Review of Books

LAUREN SLATER. Tripp Lake
from Swink

JOHN UPDIKE. Extreme Dinosaurs
from National Geographic

JOE WENDEROTH. Where God Is Glad
from Open City

LEE ZACHARIAS. Buzzards
from Southern Humanities Review

Contributors' Notes
Notable Essays of 2007