Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Priscilla Becker, Aimee Bender, Gwenda Bond, Louise Bourgeois, Arthur Bradford, Steve Brykman, W. Bruce Cameron, Edward Champion, Claro, Joshua Cohen, Karen Condon, Howard Cruse, A. Roger Ekirch, Brian Evenson, Myles Gordon, Rose Gowen, Franklin H. Head, Bob Hicok, Michael Koenig, Molly Kottemann, Catie Lazarus, Gary Lucas, Lydia Lunch, Jonathan Messinger, Mark Mirsky, C.O. Moed, Nicholas Montemarano, Joyce Carol Oates, Bud Parr, Neal Pollack, Matthew Rohrer, Davy Rothbart, John Sayles, Charles Simic, Frank Stack, Susan Steinberg, Darin Strauss, Cricket Suicide, James Tate, Lynne Tillman, William Waltz, Joe Wenderoth, Shannon Wheeler, Dara Wier, Rebecca Wolff, Beth Woodcome, and Matthew Zapruder.

Fiction (including previously unpublished stories by Aimee Bender and Arthur Bradford); essays (from Yale neurobiologists to Priscilla Becker) and the probably true fictions (like Jonathan Ames's masturbation solution to insomnia); comics (Howard Cruse, Shannon Wheeler); poetry (Charles Simic, Rebecca Wolff)...even Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine chips in some found texts, while Louise Bourgeois offers her art and one of the Suicide GIrls her photographic insomnia diaries...all combine to offer a nighttime companion for the sleepless reader. As varied as the genres are, each writer's approach to the seemingly endless night is very much his or her own. Humorist Steve Brykman decides to enter a sleep study at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston; writer Steve Almond depicts Lincoln as a man who listens to his nightmares. Priscilla Becker takes the trash out in her sleep, while Matt Zapruder writes a novel called The Pajamaist in his. Jonathan Messinger's girl born with small wings on her back dreams only of falling and Bob Hicok's man should have stuck with the red wine.

The anthology is divided up into sections, one for each day of the week, and is compiled in such a way as to evoke the experience of insomnia. Millions can't sleep; millions more sleep with those who can't sleep. Both groups now have ever more reason to emerge bleary-eyed into the dawn.

Steven Lee Beeber's study of the relationship between New York Jewish culture and the beginnings of punk rock, The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, recently appeared from A Cappella Books. A freelance writer of fiction and non-fiction, his work has appeared in a variety of outlets, including the Paris Review, Fiction, Bridge, Conduit, New York Times, Spin, Mojo, and Zeek. A regular insomniac, he nonetheless appears to be well rested...or, at least, so he likes to think.

His website is www.jewpunk.com.

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