Introduction -- You, where are you? / Kara Walker -- Bread crumbs / Tony Kushner -- Child's way / Roz Chast -- Will your hand do the thing your mind wants? / Michael Cunningham -- God flows through him / Moses Sumney -- Later you'll understand / Sofia Coppola -- And there I was / Susan Meiselas -- A puzzle / Stephen Sondheim -- Waiting / Louise Glück -- You're never going to be someone else / Maria de Los Angeles -- Tribe / Nico Muhly -- Disappearing himself / Thomas Bartlett -- Sperm bank and the scroll / Twyla Tharp -- What did you do when you were a kid? / John Derian -- Enough about me/What about me? / Barbara Kruger -- What if Dr. Seuss Fucked Maya Angelou? / David Mandel -- There's only one way it could possibly be / Gregory Crewdson -- Unconscious is waiting to see if you mean it / Marie Howe -- What the hell could you ask Sinatra? / Gay Talese -- A kind of derangement / Cheryl Pope -- With beginner's eyes / Samin Nosrat -- Brain, hand, pencil, paper / Joanna Quinn & Les Mills -- Writing in the dark / Wesley Morris -- There, I've killed it / Amy Sillman -- Conjurer extraordinaire / Andrew Jarecki -- Song on his phone / Rostam -- Laugh here / Ira Glass -- I am a portal / Simphiwe Ndzube -- A "Rothko" on A1 / Dean Baquet & Tom Bodkin -- Itchy little breakthroughs / Max Porter -- Theory and fog / Elizabeth Diller -- Here today, gone today / Ian Adelman, Calvin Seibert -- Computer has a hand too / Tyler Hobbs -- It is always harder / Marc Jacobs -- Alter ego / Grady West -- Brain is a slide carousel / Will Shortz -- A map of her mind / Sheila Heti -- I am begrudgingly on the wall / Gerald Lovell -- Stay simple / Jody Williams & Rita Sodi -- Don't hold back / Taylor Mac & Machine Dazzle -- Arguing / David Simon -- It's your book, you can do whatever you want / George Saunders -- How great thou art / Suzan-Lori Parks.