"A Mariner original."

Includes index.

Free rent at the totalitarian hotel / Poe Ballantine -- Night / Alice Munro -- Sometimes a romantic notion / Richard Schmitt -- Highway of lost girls / Vanessa Veselka -- Keeper of the flame / Matthew Vollmer -- Breeds of America / William Melvin Kelley -- My father's women / Mako Yoshikawa -- Confessions of an ex-Mormon / Walter Kirn -- I'm jumping off the bridge / Kevin Sampsell -- Pigeons / Eileen Pollack -- Triage / Jon Kerstetter -- The art of being born / Marcia Aldrich -- What happens in hell / Charles Baxter -- The exhibit will be so marked / Ander Monson -- The girls in my town / Angela Morales -- Some notes on attunement / Zadie Smith -- His last game / Brian Doyle -- When they let them bleed / Tod Goldberg -- Field notes on hair / Vicki Weiqi Yang -- Letter from Majorca / J.D. Daniels -- Ghost estates / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Channel B / Megan Stielstra -- A little bit of fun before he died / Dagoberto Gilb -- Epilogue: Deadkidistan / Michelle Mirsky -- El Camino Doloroso / David Searcy -- The book of knowledge / Steven Harvey.