Alibis
by Andre Aciman | 
The Man Who Ate Everything
by Jeffrey Steingarten |
Tell Me More
by Kelly Corrigan | 
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel
by Alexander Chee | 
Notes from No Man's Land
by Eula Biss |
Howards End is on the Landing
by Susan Hill | 
How Reading Changed My Life
by Anna Quindlen | 
Negotiating with the Dead
by Margaret Atwood | 
Medium Raw
by Anthony Bourdain | 
Out of Egypt
by Andre Aciman | 
Meditations from a Movable Chair
by Andre Dubus | 
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
by Megan Stielstra | 
On Looking
by Lia Purpura | 
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
by Edwidge Danticat | 
The Faith of a Writer
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
To Show and to Tell
by Phillip Lopate |
Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell | 
The Situation and the Story
by Vivian Gornick | 
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
by Annie Dillard | 
Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs
by Heather Lende |
In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.