The best American essays 2013 / edited with an introduction by Cheryl Strayed ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Foreword / Robert Atwan -- Introduction / Cheryl Strayed -- Free rent at the tolitalitatian hotel from Sun / Poe Ballantine -- Night from Granta / Alice Munro -- Sometimes a romantic notion from Gettysburg review / Richard Schmitt -- Highway of lost girls from GQ / Vanessa Veselka -- Keeper of the flame from New England review / Matthew Vollmer -- Breeds of America from Harper's magazine / William Melvin Kelley -- My father's women from Missouri review / Mako Yoshikawa -- Confessions of an ex-Mormon from New republic / Walter Kirn -- I'm jumping off the bridge from Salon.com / Kevin Sampsell -- Pigeons from Prairie schooner / Eileen Pollack -- Triage from River teeth / Jon Kerstetter -- The art of being born from Hotel Amerika / Marcia Aldrich -- What happens in hell from Ploughshares / Charles Baxter -- The exhibit will be so marked from Normal school / Ander Monson -- The girls in my town from Southwest review / Angela Morales -- Some notes on attunement from New Yorker / Zadie Smith -- His last game from Notre Dame magazine / Brian Doyle -- When they let them bleed from Hobart / Tod Goldberg -- Field notes on hair from South Loop review / Vicki Weiqi Yang -- Letter from Majorca from Paris review / J.D. Daniels -- Ghost estates from New York times magazine / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Channel B from Rumpus / Megan Stielstra -- A little bit of fun before he died from ZYZZYVA / Dagoberto Gilb -- Epilogue: Deadkidistan from McSweeney's / Michelle Mirsky -- El Camino Doloroso from Paris review / David Searcy -- The book of knowledge from River teeth / Steven Harvey -- Contributors' notes -- Notable essays of 2012.