110 stories : New York writes after September 11 / edited by Ulrich Baer.

Introduction / Ulrich Baer -- 1. Circumference / Humera Afridi -- 2. Night of unity / Ammiel Alcalay -- 3. Circum / Elena Alexander -- 4. Aftermath; Invisible City / Meena Alexander -- 5. It Shall Be Again / Jeffery Renard Allen -- 6. The Sky Was So Blue / Roberta Allen -- 7. Womb Shelter / Jonathan Ames -- 8. A First Kiss / Darren Aronofsky -- 9. Random Notes - September 11, 2001, 4:00 P.M.; Underground / Paul Auster -- 10. Gelato Is Gelato / Jennifer Belle -- 11. Prologue: The Book of John / Jenifer Berman -- 12. Report from Liberty Street / Charles Bernstein -- 13. Perfect Weather / Star Black -- 14. New York, 12 September 2001 / Breyten Breytenbach -- 15. from Manhattan Rhapsody / Melvin Jules Bukiet -- 16. Union Square / Peter Carey -- 17. The Quick and the Poor / Lawrence Chua -- 18. Holy Smoke / Ira Cohen -- 19. The Same Tune / Imraan Coovadia -- 20. On the day of the dead / Edwidge Danticat -- 21. Senseless / Alice Elliot Dark -- 22. The Therm / Eric Darton -- 23. Grammar Questions / Lydia Davis -- 24. Echoes / Samuel R. Delany -- 25. The Ruin / Maggie Dubris -- 26. Shorebirds Atlantic / Rinde Eckert -- 27. Baby Lust / Janice Eidus -- 28. Man on the PATH / Masood Farivar -- 29. "9/11 Victim's Identity Discovered Only through Investigation Led by Hairdresser" / Carolyn Ferrell -- 30. Conversation Between Mr. X and Mr. Y / Richard Foreman -- 31. I Saw You Walking / Deborah Garrison -- 32. Neighbors / Amitav Ghosh -- 33. The Death of a Painter / James Gibbons -- 34. If I Forget Thee / Carol Gilligan -- 35. True Stories / Thea Goodman -- 36. How I Read since September 11th / Vivian Gornick -- 37. I Think I Understand the Various Theories of Rain / Tim Griffin -- 38. Pitching September 11th / Lev Grossman -- 39. from A Few Stout Individuals / John Guare -- 40. Mile High / Sean Gullette -- 41. Notes from a New York Diary / Jessica Hagedorn -- 42. Boerum Hill Tanka / Kimiko Hahn -- 43. The Lives of Rain / Nathalie Handal -- 44. America everything has changed / Carey Harrison -- 45. Dog Walking / Joshua Henkin -- 46. Finding the Center / Tony Hiss -- 47. The Price of Light and Air / David Hollander -- 48. We All Saw It, or The View from Home / A. M. Homes -- 49. Fallacies of Wonder / Richard Howard -- 50. Still Life with Snow and Hammer / Laird Hunt -- 51. The World Trade Center / Siri Hustvedt -- 52. The Orders (from Pariah) / John Keene -- 53. Travel Log / John Kelly -- 54. Super 8 / Wayne Koestenbaum -- 55. Unimaginable / Richard Kostelanetz -- 56. 24 September 2001, or Manhattan Seen in a New Light / Guy Lesser -- 57. Entry of Buildings / Jonathan Lethem -- 58. Shopping (3:58 P.M. September 11) / Jocelyn Lieu -- 59. Various Slo-Moving Clouds Are Damaged / Tan Lin -- 60. The Grief Technician / Sam Lipsyte -- 61. Altering the World We Thought Would Outlast Us / Phillip Lopate -- 62. The Dumpster / Karen Malpede -- 63. A Rat's Life / Charles McNulty -- 64. Ode: The Day After / Pablo Medina -- 65. His Friendship with Fear / Ellen Miller -- 66. Rio/Iguassu/Sao Paolo / Paul D. Miller and D. J. Spooky -- 67. Time and King David / Mark Jay Mirsky -- 68. Potato Stories / Tova Mirvis -- 69. Some Place, No Place / Albert Mobilio -- 70. Earlier Winter / Alex Molot -- 71. The Night Marchers / Mary Morris -- 72. Steeple-Peeple / Tracie Morris -- 73. Thought Experiments / Anna Moschovakis -- 74. Mister Equanimity / Richard Eoin Nash -- 75. My Son's Views / Josip Novakovich -- 76. After a Bombing / Dennis Nurkse -- 77. A History / Geoffrey O'Brien -- 78. The Pond / Larry O'Connor -- 79. Last Seen / Robert Polito -- 80. A Plague / Nelly Reifler -- 81. Keeping Vigil / Rose-Myriam Rejouis -- 82. River / April Reynolds -- 83. Christmas Music / Roxana Robinson -- 84. This Was a Test / Avital Ronell -- 85. Upon Seeing a Shooting Star on the Lawn at Tanglewood Two Days after the World Trade Center Disaster / Daniel Asa Rose -- 86. Postcard / Joe Salvatore -- 87. In the Foreground / Grace Schulman -- 88. Near November / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- 89. Now They Are Leaving / Dani Shapiro -- 90. Bonus / Akhil Sharma -- 91. Nurse / Suzan Sherman -- 92. Instructions for Surviving the Unprecedented / Jenefer Shute -- 93. The War at Home; What to Save for Death / Hal Sirowitz -- 94. Elvis / Pamela Sneed -- 95. Hinge / Chris Spain -- 96. Re: Covers / Art Spiegelman -- 97. Staffing / Catharine R. Stimpson -- 98. Shakespeare and Punk / Liz Swados -- 99. Save Me from the Pious and the Vengeful / Lynne Tillman -- 100. Bad Luck / Mike Topp -- 101. Skylines / David Trinidad -- 102. Concert at St. Paul's Chapel, Fulton St.; From the Other End / Val Vinokurov -- 103. The Persistence of Who We Were / Chuck Wachtel -- 104. from Howler / Mac Wellman -- 105. A Terror for Terror / Owen West -- 106. A Trampoline in Wayne / Rachel Wetzsteon -- 107. [The movie set on the horizon glows] / Susan Wheeler -- 108. New York Does Not Exist / Peter Wortsman -- 109. The Morning after That One / John Yau -- 110. Two New York Memoranda: October, 2001 / Christopher Yu.