From the Book - First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Foreword / Johnathan Santlofer --
Introduction / Viet Thanh Nguyen --
Speak! Speak! / Julia Alvarez --
Oh, Canada / Russell Banks --
Compline / Stephen, L. Carter --
Scenes from late paradise: stupidity ; Late America / Eric Fischl --
New blank document / Lee Child --
Tell her anyway / Bridget Hawkins --
Veterans Day / Mary Higgins Clark --
Atonement / Michael Cunningham --
Intersections / Mark Di Ionno --
Third twin / Anna Dunn --
Balancing acts / Louise Erdrich --
The Miss April Houses / Angela Flournoy --
The world is yours, the world is mine ; The many faces of Islam / Shahzia Sikander --
Fires / Elizabeth Frank - Hate for sale / Neil Gaiman --
Unaccountable / Philip Gourevitch --
White baby / James Hannaham --
Your sacred American rights bingo / Mimi Pond --
In the trees / Alice Hoffman --
Getting somewhere / Susan Isaacs - Guantánamo, ERF team: making prisoner in the eye ; Guantánamo, ERF team: waterboarding prisoner / Susan Crile --
Mr. Crime and punishment and war and peace / Gish Jen --
Finally I am American at heart / Ha Jin --
Arlington street / Lily King --
The harlot and the murderer: Sonia's story / Sheila Kohler --
Starry starry night ; Trade canoe: forty days and forty nights / Jaune Quick-To-See Smith --
"People are people" / Elinor Lipman --
The trout fisherman / Joyce Maynard --
Between storms / Walter Mosley --
Our cuntry needs you ; Tic-tac-toe ; Deep frost / Marilyn Minter --
"Good news!" / Joyce Carol Oates --
Island of tears... ; Island of hope! ; Ghost of Ellis Island / Art Spiegelman --
Safety first / Sara Paretsky --
Look away ; Loving in black & white / Beverly McIver --
Bystanders (April 2003) / Tom Piazza --
Lucky girl / Heidi Pitlor --
If they come in the morning / S. J. Rozan --
Top step / Richard Russo --
The ugliest American alphabet / Eric Orner --
Hope / Johnathan Santlofer --
The walk / Elizabeth Strout --
Vote Hillary / Deborah Kass --
Stop & shop / Paul Theroux --
Little house on the prairie holding company LLC / David Storey --
The way we read now / Justin Torres --
Don't despair / Alice Walker --
Learning American values / Edmund White --
Letter from Anthony D. Romero --