Catherine McCarthy's Reviews > The Best American Essays 2013

** spoiler alert ** Good:
"Night" by Alice Munro
"Highway of Lost Girls" by Vanesa Veleska
"My Father's Women" by Mako Yoshikawa
"Confessions of an Ex-Mormon" by Walter Kirn
"Pigeons" by Eileen Pollack
"The Exhibit Will Be So Marked" by Ander Monson
"When They Let Them Bleed" by Tod Goldberg
"Field Notes on Hair" by Vicki Weiqi Yang
"Channel B" by Megan Stielstra
"Epilogue: Deadkidistan" by Michelle Mirsky
"The Book of Knowledge" by Steven Harvey

Less Good:
"Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel" by Poe Ballentine
"Sometimes a Romantic Notion" by Richard Schmitt
"Keeper of the Flame" by Matthew Vollmer
"Breeds of America" by William Melvin Kelley
"I'm Jumping Off the Bridge" by Kevin Sampsell
"Triage" by Jon Kerstetter
"The Art of Being Born" by Marcia Aldrich
"What Happens in Hell" by Charles Baxter
"The Girls in My Town" by Angela Morales
"Some Notes on Attunement" by Zadie Smith
"His Last Game" by Brian Doyle
"Letter From Majorca" by J.D. Daniels
"Ghost Estates" by John Jeremiah Sullivain
"A Little Bit of Fun Before He Died" by Dagoberto Gilb
"El Camino Doloroso" by David Searcy