Introduction / David Shields and Bradford Morrow
Between the forest and the well : notes on death / Kyoki Mori
Bayham Street / Robert Clark
The sutra of maggots and blowflies / Sallie Tisdale
A primer for the punctuation of heart disease / Jonathan Safran Foer
Silence and awakening / Diane Ackerman
A solemn pleasure / Melissa Pritchard
Death in the age of digital proliferation, and other considerations / Christopher Sorrentino
The siege / Joyce Carol Oates
Field notes for the graveyard enthusiast / Robin Hemley
Inside story / Peter Straub
Invasion to the dance / Kevin Baker
Death wish in Negroland / Margo Jefferson
Grace Street / Greg Bottoms
The final plot / Lynne Tillman
Cézanne's colors / Brenda Hillman
What will survive of us / Geoff Dyer
This is the life / Annie Dillard.
