Introduction / Dave Eggers
Letters from Mike Sacks [and fifteen others]
The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier
Statistical abstract for my hometown, Spokane, Washington / Jess Walter
Phantoms / Steven Millhauser
Do not disturb / A.M. Homes
from the Introduction to McSweeney's 13 / Chris Ware
from Optic Nerve no. 9 / Adrian Tomine
The Darlington Sundays / Daniel G. Clowes
We'll sleep in my old room / Chris Ware
A child's book of sickness and death / Chris Adrian
They all stand up and sing / Julie Hecht
Oral history with hiccups ; A mown lawn / Lydia Davis
from the introduction to McSweeney's 10 / Michael Chabon
Retreat ; Retreat #2 / Wells Tower
Mr. Squishy / David Foster Wallace
Gentlemen, start your engines / Andrew Sean Greer
Can a paper mill save a forest? / Nicholson Baker
The girl with bangs / Zadie Smith
Bored to death / Jonathan Ames
There is no time in Waterloo / Sheila Heti
The double zero / Rick Moody
K is for fake / Jonathan Lethem
Further interpretations of real-life events / Kevin Moffett
Fire : the next sharp stick? / John Hodgman
Benjamin Bucks / Jennie Erin Smith
The unwritten stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald : introduction / Michelle Orange
Girl and giraffe / Lydia Millet
Stay where you are / Deb Olin Unferth
Four institutional monologues / George Saunders
How to sell / Clancy Martin
Fathers and daughters / Lawrence Wechsler
(Notes from the Middle World) / Breten Breytenbach
Two by two / Gunnhild Øyehaug
The bastard / Nyuol Lueth Tong
S&J / Ellen Van Neerven-Currie
The new, abridged dictionary of accepted ideas / Edwin Rozic and Aleksandar Hemon
Twenty-minute stories / by Laird Hunt, Aleksandar Hemon, Glen David Gold, Peter Orner, and Jennifer Egan
Pantoums / by Jennifer Michael Hecht, Bill Tarlin, and Ben Jahn.