Acknowledgments    
Brigadoon Bowling
Ann; Death and the Maiden    
When I’m Awfully Low: On Singing    
Lollipop Is Mine    
Brushes with the Great and Not-So-Great    
Brigadoon Bowling    
Five Autobiographical Fragments, or She May Have Been a Witch    
Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman    
To the Reader, Sincerely
To the Reader, Sincerely    
Being a Boy-Man    
Hydra: I’ll Be Your Mirror    
A Conversation with Robert Burton, Author of Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), vox es, praeterea nihil    
Meet Montaigne! (with Patrick Madden)    
The Typologies of John Earle    
Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview with David Lazar and Mary Cappello    
Rock, Paper, Scissors, God: aphorismics    
Rock, Paper, Scissors, God    
Mothers, Etc.    
Source Credits    

David Lazar is a professor of creative writing and English at Columbia College Chicago. He is the editor of the journal Hotel Amerika and the author of several books, including Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love and Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013). Heather Frise is a filmmaker, educator, and visual artist. She recently worked on the National Film Board of Canada’s Emmy award–winning Highrise.

"A collection of personal essays, pieces exploring the essay form, and aphorisms, I'll Be Your Mirror explores memory, pain, historical essayists, contemporary creative nonfiction, all in the distinct voice of premier essayist David Lazar"--