Death by gentrification / Rebecca Solnit -- i'm sick of pretending to give a shit about what whypeepo think / Danez Smith -- Notes of a native daughter / Sandra Cisneros -- Dosas / Edwige Danticat -- American work / Richard Russo -- Fieldwork / Manuel Muñoz -- For the ones who put their names on thew wall / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Trash food / Chris Offutt -- Some houses (various stages of dissolve) / Clair Vaye Watkins -- Mobility / Julia Alvarez -- Youth from every quarter / Kirstin Valdez Quade -- Outside / Kiese Laymon -- White debt / Eula Biss -- Leander / Joyce Carol Oates -- Fault lines / Ru Freeman -- We share the rain, and not much else / Timothy Egan -- Blood brother / Sarah Smarsh -- Hillsides and flatlands / Héctor Tobar -- Invisible wounds / Jess Ruliffson -- How / Roxane Gay -- Enough to lose / RS Deeren -- To the man asleep in our driveway who might be named Phil / Anthony Doerr -- Soup kitchen / Annie Dillard -- Howlin' Wolf / Kevin Young -- Looking for a home / Karen Russell -- Visible city / Rickey Laurentiis -- Portion / Joy Williams -- Apartment 1G / Nami Mun -- Happy / Brad Watson -- A good neighbor is hard to find / Whitney Terrell -- Here in a state of tectonic tension / Lawrence Joseph -- Once there was a spot / Larry Watson -- Hurray for losers / Dagoberto Gilb -- La ciudad mágica / Patricia Engel -- American arithmetic / Natalie Diaz -- Worthless servant / Ann Patchett.