Michael Cohen’s “A Fountain Pen of Good Repute” (31.4) was selected as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2012, edited by New York Times columnist and best-selling author David Brooks, with series editor Robert Atwan.

Authors whose works are included in the collection include Marcia Angell, Miah Arnold, Mark Doty (32.1), Joseph Epstein, Malcolm Gladwell, Francine Prose, Lauren Slater, Sandra Tsing Loh, and others.

Read Cohen’s NER sketch The King in Winter.