Grace Paley, "A Conversation with My Father"
Wyslawa Szymborska, "Could Have"
Stanislaw Lem, "Impossibilitate Vitae" from A Perfect Vacuum
Ellen Pall, "Painting Life into Sammy"
Ian Frazier, "Nobody better, Better than Nobody" (Heloise)
Passage from Chapter 10 of Family
*Lawrence Weschler, Breytenbach profile from Calamities of Exile

Video of the lecture available at https://vimeo.com/11303813