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Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2011Table of Contents
- Editor's Note
- pp. ix-x
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0023
Michael Steinberg Essay Prize Winners
- Genesis
- pp. 11-20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0019
Essays and Memoirs
- You Girls
- pp. 21-32
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0000
- The Swimming Pool
- pp. 33-45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0004
- To Be American
- pp. 47-53
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0007
- Chunks of Ugly
- pp. 55-62
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0010
- Ghost Story
- pp. 69-75
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0017
- Preserve
- pp. 83-89
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0002
- Double Name
- pp. 91-97
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0006
- Ebb and Flow
- pp. 99-115
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0009
- Every Last Breath
- pp. 117-118
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0012
Essay and Self Reflection
- Solving for P
- pp. 119-126
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0016
- Finding Solutions
- pp. 127-132
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0020
Writer as Reader
Photo Essay
- Empty Quarter
- pp. 139-144
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0005
Roundtable: Aftershocks of Memoir
- Aftershocks of Memoir
- pp. 145-159
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0008
Book Reviews: Full-Length Reviews
- Quotidiana (review)
- pp. 165-167
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0014
- About the Contributors
- pp. 181-185
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/fge.2011.0024
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