Galadrielle Allman - Please Be With Me (Winter Tour Excerpt) - Please Be With Me (ATL Pop Excerpt) MK Asante - Buck: A Memoir (Book Cover) - Buck: A Memoir (Chap. 1) - Buck: A Memoir (Chap. 2) Rick Benjamin - Pa**ing Love (Poem) Melissa Broder - MEAT HEART (Poem) David Burkus - The Myths of Creativity (Excerpt) Stephen Burt - Belmont (Poem) Jeff Chang - Can't Stop Won't Stop (Prelude) Teju Cole - Open City (Excerpt) Morri Creech - Song and Complaint (Poem) Erica Dawson - The Small Blades Hurt (Poem) Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Book Cover) - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Excerpt) Jen Doll - Save the Date (Excerpt) Paul Edwards - How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC (Excerpt) - How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques (Excerpt) Jon Gertner - The Idea Factory (Book Cover) - The Idea Factory (Introduction) Seth Godin - The Purple Cow (Excerpt) George Green - Lord Byron's Foot (Poem) Robert Greene - The 50th Law (Introduction) - The 50th Law (Chap. 1) - The 50th Law (Chap. 2) - Mastery (Introduction) Michael P. Jeffries - Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America (Excerpt) Ken Kalfus - Equilateral Etgar Keret - Suddenly, a Knock on the Door (Short Story) Dorothea Lasky - Rome (Poem) Jenna Le - Six Rivers (Poem) Chris Leslie-Hynan - Ride Around Shining (Excerpt) Elizabeth Little - Dear Daughter (Excerpt) Tao Lin - Taipei (Excerpt) - you are a little bit happier than i am (Poem) Adam Mansbach - Rage is Back (Chap. 1) - Rage is Back (Chap. 2) George R. R. Martin - Game of Thrones Joshua Mehigan - The Optimist (Poem) - Accepting the Disaster (Poem) Phong Nguyen - Benjamin Franklin, Clergyman (Excerpt) Alexis Ohanian - Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed (Excerpt) Dayo Olopade - The Bright Continent (Excerpt) Ed Pavlic - Visting Hours at the Color Line (Poem) Joanna Pearson - Oldest Mortal Myth (Poem) Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In (Introduction) Don Share - Squandermania (Poem) Patricia Smith - Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Poem) Tom Standage - Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years (Introduction) Jeff VanderMeer - Annihilation - Authority Lance Scott Walker - Houston Rap (Introduction) - Houston Rap (Photo Excerpt) Michael P. Williams - Chrono Trigger (Excerpt) Greg Williamson - A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck (Poem) Alex Woodard - For the Sender (Excerpt) Tom Wolf - SOUND (Author's Cut of Chap. 3) David Yezzi - Birds of the Air (Poem) Matthew Zapruder - Sun Bear (Poem)