The Best American Essays 2013 (54 page)

Normal School
, Film and Music Spectacular, eds. Sophie Beck, Steven Church, and Matt Roberts, Fall.

Notre Dame Review
, Memes and Memories, ed. William O’Rourke, Summer/Fall.

Pen America
, Teachers, ed. M Mark, no. 16.

Ploughshares
, Truth: All-Essay Issue, ed. Patricia Hampl, Fall.

River Styx
, End of the World, ed. Richard Newman, no. 88.

Sewanee Review
, Bound by the Cause of Words, ed. George Core, Fall.

Slice
, Growing Up, ed. Elizabeth Blachman, Spring/Summer.

Texas Monthly
, How to Raise a Texan, ed. Jake Silverstein, September.

Tin House
, Science Fair, ed. Rob Spillman, no. 51.

Witness
, Special Issue: Disaster, ed. Amber Withycombe, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring

C
HERYL
S
TRAYED
, editor, is the author of the #1
New York Times
bestseller
Wild,
the
New York Times
bestseller
Tiny Beautiful Things,
and the novel
Torch.
Strayed’s writing has appeared in the
New York Times Magazine,
the
Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Allure,
the
Missouri Review,
the
Sun,
the
Rumpus
—where she has written the popular “Dear Sugar” column since 2010—and elsewhere.

1. Some of the victims’ names have been changed.

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2. Among friends, I almost always refer to it as such. To do otherwise would endow it with undue weight.

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3. Radiation’s baldness is true baldness, since hair falls out at the roots. No sign of its former inhabitant.

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