Brothers

Frank Mccourt
foreword xi

Benjamin Cheever and Fred Cheever
civil war 1

David Kaczynski
missing parts 15

David Maraniss
the sensations of jim 31

Phillip Lopate
my brother, life (with apologies to pasternak) 41

Mikal Gilmore
secrets and bones 49

Richard Ford
we were men 59

Ethan Canin
american beauty 65

John Edgar Wideman
doing time 85

Chris Bohjalian
my brother’s a keeper 91

Daniel Menaker
headlock 97

Pete Hamill
a drinking life 113

David Sedaris
you can’t kill the rooster 117

Geoffrey Wolff
heavy lifting 125

Tobias Wolff
a brother’s story 141

Charles D’Ambrosio
documents 149

Jim Shepard
get away from me 157

James Hurst
the scarlet ibis 167

Steven V. Roberts
the roberts boys 173

Dominick Dunne
a death in the family 183

Floyd Skloot
jambon dreams 195

Jay Neugeboren
imagining robert 209

Herbert Gold
king of the cleveland beatniks 221

Gregory Orr
the accident 231

Jerald Walker
sacraments of reconciliation 243

Darin Strauss
chang and eng 251

Nathaniel Rich and Simon Rich
brothers on brotherhood 257

About The Editor And Contributors 263

Sources And Permissions 271