Introduction / Margot Singer and Nicole Walker
1. Why Some Hybrids Work and Others Don't / Lia Purpura
2. Queering the Essay / David Lazar
3. The Everbent Genre / Patrick Madden
4. Don't Let Those Damn Genres Cross You Ever Again! / Lawrence Sutin
5. Genre-Queer: Notes Against Generic Binaries / Kazim Ali
6. On the EEO Genre Sheet / Jenny Boully
7. Reading Samuel R. Delany / T Clutch Fleischmann
8. Beautiful Muddied Waters: On Genre and Veracity / Sean Prentiss
9. Listening for the Sound / Sejal Shah
10. Split Tone / Lee Martin
11. Lyrebirds in the Impasse / David Carlin
12. Headiness / Karen Brennan
13. What's in Your Purse?: Essays Through the Eyes of a Character Actor / Elaine Passarello
14. Propositions; Provocations: Inventions / Mary Capello
15. On Scaffolding, Hermit Crabs, and the Real False Document / Margot Singer
16. Text Adventure / Ander Monson
17. Adventures in the Reference Section / Kevin Haworth
18. Meeting the Ancestor on the Road / Tina Makereti
19. Autogeographies / Barrie Jean Borich
20. Dissolving Genre: Writ with Water / Ingrid Horrocks
21. "Lions and Tigers and Bears / Oh My!": Courage and Creative Nonfiction / Brenda Miller
22. Traumatized Time / David McGlynn
23. Escapology / Justin Hocking
24. Play-Doh Fun Factory Poetics / Wayne Koestenbaum
25. A Sequence of Thoughts Without Any Kind of Order / Ira Sukrungruang
26. My Mistake / Nicole Walker
27. On Convention / Margot Singer
28. Losing Language / Camille Dungy
29. What the Bottles Know / Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
30. 44 Tattoos / David Shields
31. Creative Exposition-Anther Way that Nonfiction Writing Can Be Good / Dave Madden
32. This Photograph is Evidence of You / Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
33. Ostrakons at Amphipolis, Postcards from Chicago: Thucydides and the Invention and Deployment of Lyric History / Michael Martone
34. On Fragmentation / Steve Fellner
35. Single Mindedness and Whole Heartedness in the Essay Writing Workshop: An Essay in Many Parts / Jenn Ashworth
36. Positively Negative / Dinty W. Moore
37. Study Questions for the Essay at Hand: A Speculative Essay / Robin Hemley
38. A Brief History of Disquiet, Deficit & Disbelief by FeiMan / Xu Xi
39. The Inclusivity of Metaphor / Nicole Walker
40. The Funk of Defiance, the Freedom of Refusal / Catina Bacote
41. The Essay as Resistance / Aviya Kushner
42. Prepositioning Resistance, Queerly / Francesca Rendle-Short
43. Exposition as Resistance: Tell Me the Moon Is Shining / Matthew Batt
44. The Lyric Essay as a Mode of Resistance / LaTanya McQueen
45. It Is What It Is / Eula Biss
46. How It Is: Writing Towards Wonder / Jessica Hendry Nelson
47. On Not Being Able to Write It / Wendy Rawlings
48. Hermes Goes to College / Michael Martone
49. The Convex View / Karen Lloyd
50. The Moral Map / Stephanie Elizondo Griest