The best American magazine writing, 2009

Papa / Sean Flynn

I choose my choice! / Sandra Tsing Loh

The things that carried him / Chris Jones

Broken / David Darlington

The lost years and last days of David Foster Wallace / David Lipsky

Making it / Ryan Lizza

Disowned by the ownership society / Naomi Klein

Bleak houses / Paul Reyes

The homecoming / James Wood

Butcher / Tom Chiarella

The glass stampede / Justin Davidson

The healing season / Selena Roberts

A boy's life / Hanna Rosin

They fought the laws (of supply and demand) and the laws won / Jamie Kitman

Making toast / Roger Rosenblatt

The source of all things / Tracy Ross

Vickie's pour house / Maureen McCoy.