Maggie May (1981) / Lester Bangs -- The National Anthem / Jonathan Lethem -- Blue Guitar / Amanda Davis -- Untitled / JT LeRoy -- Dirty Mouth / Tom Perrotta -- Hallelujah / Tanker Dane -- Why Go / Lisa Tucker -- All the Security Guards By Name / Aimee Bender -- She Once Had Me / Anthony DeCurtis -- Milestones / Hannah Tinti -- Death in the Alt-Country / Neal Pollack -- I Shot the Sheriff / Toure -- A Simple Explanation of the Afterlife / Victor LaValle -- The Eternal Helen / Heidi Julavits -- Swampthroat / Arthur Bradford -- Bouncing / Jennifer Belle -- Graffiti Monk / Ernesto Quinonez -- Smoking Inside / Darin Strauss -- The System / Judy Budnitz -- Four Last Songs / David Ebershoff -- Dying on the Vine / Elissa Shappell -- Rio / Zev Borow -- King Heroin / Nelson George -- The Bodies of Boys / Julianna Baggott.