Literary journalism: a new collection of the best American nonfiction

The art of literary journalism / Norman Sims

Breakable rules for literary journalists / Mark Kramer

The rivermen / Joseph Mitchell

First family of Astoria / Calvin Trillin

The American man at age ten / Susan Orlean

The mountains of Pi / Richard Preston

A family portrait in black & white / Walt Harrington

Mr. Bellow's planet / Brent Staples

Strawberries under ice / David Quammen

Trina and Trina / Adrian Nicole Leblanc

The ga-ga years / Joseph Nocera

Predilections / Mark Singer

The road is very unfair : trucking across Africa in the age of AIDS / Ted Conover

Access / Mark Kramer

Memory / Tracy Kidder

Fernande Pelletier / Jane Kramer

Atchafalaya / John McPhee.