The Road to San Giovanni
by Italo Calvino | 
The Cross of Redemption
by James Baldwin | 
My Ears Are Bent
by Joseph Mitchell | 
The Other Glass Teat
by Harlan Ellison | 
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed: Essays
by Harlan Ellison | 
Just Enough Liebling
by A. J. Liebling | 
The Adding Machine
by William S. Burroughs | 
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
by Leonard Michaels | 
Inner Workings
by J. M. Coetzee | 
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken
by Daniel Mendelsohn | 
Table of Contents
by John McPhee | 
A Temple of Texts
by William H. Gass | 
Stranger Shores
by J. M. Coetzee | 
Quotidiana
by Patrick Madden | 
Love and Other Ways of Dying
by Michael Paterniti | 
What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
by Lynne Tillman | 
Portrait Inside My Head
by Phillip Lopate | 
Hugging the Shore
by John Updike | 
Alarms and Discursions
by G. K. Chesterton | 
Waiting for the Barbarians
by Daniel Mendelsohn |
The last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime, Collection of Sand is a group of essays never before published in English, discussing subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens.