Introduction / Sufjan Stevens
Best American names for horses expected to have undistinguished careers / Mike Richardson-Bryan
Best American beginnings of ten stories about ponies
Best American first sentences of novels published in 2006
Best American new brand names
Best American six-word memoirs
Best American personals from around the world
Best American article titles from the best American trade magazines
Best American creationist explanations for the world's natural wonders
Best American new animal plagues / Steve Newman
Best American failed television pilots
Best American names of television programs taken to their logical conclusion / Joe O'Neill
Best American police blotter items
Middle American gothic / Jonathan Ames
A happy death / Alison Bechdel
Ghost children / D. Winston Brown
Rock the junta / Scott Carrier
What is your dangerous idea / Edge Foundation
Selling the general / Jennifer Egan
Where I slept / Stephen Elliot
Lotería / Kevin A. Gonzáles
How to tell stories to children / Miranda July
Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine / Matthew Klam
All aboard the bloated boat : arguments in favor of Barry Bonds / Lee Klein
Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice / Nam Le
Darfur diaries / Jen Marlow, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro
The big suck : notes from the jarhead underground / David J. Morris
Stuyvesant High School commencement speech / Conan O'Brian
So long, anyway / Patrick Somerville
Literature unnatured / Joy Williams.
