OTHER WORKS

(Featured in Chicago Sun Times.)
• McClanahan's essay on beauty and aging, "She Who Once Was," is the opening essay in KISS TOMORROW HELLO: NOTES FROM THE MIDLIFE UNDERGROUND BY TWENTY-FIVE WOMEN OVER FORTY.
Now available from Doubleday.
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• "My Affair With Jesus" (essay) in Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, Spring 2006

• "The Stranger at the Window," an essay about McClanahan's experience as a hospice volunteer, reprinted in Five Years of Fourth Genre, Michigan State University Press


• "Back," an essay on McClanahan's 2003 cancer diagnosis and surgery, appears in the autumn 2005 issue of THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW Read this essay online.

• "Nest," an essay, appears in the current issue of SHENANDOAH.

• "Signs and Wonders" is included in SHORT TAKES: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION, now available from Norton.

• The new college edition of The Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin)
"Book Marks," which appeared in The Best American Essays 2001, is one of only 12 essays from the past 10 volumes to be selected. Other writers include John Updike, Amy Tan, Gay Talese and Joyce Carol Oates.

• The new edition of The Fourth Genre- Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (Longman)
"Goodbye To All This" from The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings appears alongside essays by Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, Phillip Lopate and others.