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Prize Stories 1989: The O’Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Anchor 0-385-24634-X, Apr ’89, $8.95, 387pp, tp)

vii • Publisher’s Note • Misc. Material • pr
ix • Introduction • William Abrahams • in
1 • Peacocks • Ernest J. Finney • ss The Sewanee Review Win ’88
36 • House Hunting • Joyce Carol Oates • ss The Kenyon Review Fll ’87
60 • Edie: A Life • Harriet Doerr • ss Epoch v36 #2 ’87
78 • The Sky Fading Upward to Yellow: A Footnote to Literary History • Jean Ross • ss Shenandoah v37 #2 ’87
94 • CV 10 • Starkey Flythe, Jr. • ss Ploughshares v14 #1 ’88
103 • After You’re Gone • Alice Adams • ss Crosscurrents v7 #1 ’87
111 • History • Frances Sherwook • ss Greensboro Review Win ’87
129 • Death of a Duke • Banning K. Lary • ss Witness Fll ’87
143 • Sinking House • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’88
157 • The Hit • Catherine Petroski • ss New Directions v51 ’87
165 • American Express • James Salter • ss Esquire Feb ’88
187 • Here and There • David Foster Wallace • ss Fiction v8 #2/3 ’87
209 • Île Sèche • Susan Minot • ss Grand Street Win ’88
217 • Wrong Stories • Millicent Dillon • ss The Southwest Review Win ’88
248 • Clandestine Acts • Charles Simmons • ss Gallery Aug ’88
259 • Avid • John Casey • ss New Yorker Apr 18 ’88
292 • To Be • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison • ss The Iowa Review v17 #2 ’87
302 • The Watch • Rick Bass • ss The Quarterly v3 ’87
344 • Unstable Ground • Ellen Herman • ss Greensboro Review Win ’87
356 • Child in the Leaves • Charles Dickinson • ss New Yorker Mar 7 ’88
373 • Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors • Misc. Material • bg
Prize Stories 1991: The O’Henry Awards ed. William Abrahams (Anchor 0-385-41513-3, Apr ’91, $9.95, 430pp, tp)

vii • Publisher’s Note • Misc. Material • pr
ix • Introduction • William Abrahams • in
1 • A Sandstone Farmhouse • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 11 ’90
31 • The Swimmers • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Playboy Dec ’89
52 • Overland • Sharon Sheehe Stark • ss Boulevard #12/13 ’90
68 • Ashes • T. Alan Broughton • ss The Sewanee Review Sum ’90
91 • Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant • Charles Baxter • ss The Iowa Review v20 #1 ’90
124 • Hand, Cup, Shell • Ursula K. Le Guin • nv The Southwest Review Aut ’89
150 • Powwow • Patricia Lear • ss The Quarterly #14 ’90
164 • Hippies, Indians, Buffalo • Wayne Johnson • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’89
182 • For Women Everywhere • Perri Klass • ss Glamour Jul ’90
196 • Nothing to Ask For • Dennis McFarland • ss New Yorker Sep 25 ’89
214 • Raisin Faces • Helen Norris • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spr ’90
233 • The Ilui • Diane Levenberg • ss Midstream Nov ’89
251 • The Very Pineapple • Charlotte Zoë Walker • ss Georgia Review Spr/Sum ’90
267 • Oil and Water • Millicent Dillon • nv The Southwest Review Spr ’90
301 • Ecco • Ronald Sukenick • ss Boulevard #12/13 ’90
323 • Earthquake Damage • Alice Adams • ss New Yorker May 7 ’90
336 • Moscow Nights • Marly Swick • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’90
359 • The Apple-Green Triumph • Martha Lacy Hall • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum ’90
376 • Talking to the Dead • Sylvia A. Watanabe • ss Bamboo Ridge Win ’89
389 • During the Twelfth Summer of Elmer D. Peterson • Thomas Fox Averill • ss Farmer’s Market v7 #1 ’90
412 • Biographies and Some Comments by the Authors • Misc. Material • bg
The Best American Short Stories 1991 ed. Alice Adams & Katrina Kennison (Houghton Mifflin, 1991, $9.95, xx+426pp, hc); [TM]

ix • Foreword • Katrina Kennison • fw
xiii • Introduction • Alice Adams • in
1 • The Legend of Pig Eye • Rick Bass • ss The Paris Review, 1990
21 • The Disappeared • Charles Baxter • ss Michigan Quarterly Review, 1990
46 • Love Is Not a Pie • Amy Bloom • ss Room of One’s Own, 1990
64 • Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta • Kate Braverman • ss Story Aut ’90
82 • The Trip Back • Robert Olen Butler • ss The Southern Review, 1990
95 • The Point • Charles D’Ambrosio, Jr. • ss New Yorker Oct 1 ’90
115 • Oil and Water • Millicent Dillon • nv The Southwest Review Spr ’90
145 • Another Short Day in La Luz • Harriet Doerr • ss New Yorker Dec 24 ’90
158 • The Custodian • Deborah Eisenberg • ss New Yorker Mar 12 ’90
184 • Separation • Mary Gordon • ss Antæus, 1990
194 • The Body Shop • Elizabeth Graver • ss The Southern Review, 1990
209 • Houdini • Siri Hustvedt • ss Fiction, 1990
228 • Bologoye • Mikhail Iossel • ss Boulevard, 1990
243 • Glossolalia • David Jauss • ss Shenandoah, 1990
264 • Viva la Tropicana • Leonard Michaels • nv Zyzzyva, 1990
297 • Willing • Lorrie Moore • ss New Yorker May 14 ’90
314 • Friend of My Youth • Alice Munro • ss New Yorker Jan 22 ’90
335 • American, Abroad • Joyce Carol Oates • ss North American Review Mar ’90
356 • Dog Stories • Francine Prose • ss Special Report: Fiction, 1990
367 • A Sandstone Farmhouse • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 11 ’90
395 • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg
410 • 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1990 • Misc. Material • bi
414 • Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories • Misc. Material • ms
Girls’ Night Out/Boys’ Night In ed. Jessica Adams, Chris Manby & Fiona Walker (HarperCollins UK 0-00-712203-9, Jul 2001, £6.99, 333+268pp, pb); Anthology of original stories, the two selections bound dos-a-dos. Part of the sales proceeds go towards the “Warchild” charity. A follow-up to Girls’ Night In (Walker, Manby, Adams) (HarperCollins UK, July 2000).

• Girls’ Night Out
xix • Foreword • Jane Green • fw (*), 2001
3 • Red Letter Day • Fiona Walker • nv *
27 • Mother Figure • Sarah Harris • ss *
45 • No Strings Attached • Alexandra Potter • ss *
65 • When the Fat Lady Sings • Colette Caddle • nv *
87 • Art Lover • Chris Manby • ss *
101 • Home and Dry • Martina Devlin • ss *
121 • Revenge • Emily Barr • ss *
137 • Delivering Happyware • Anna Davis • ss *
157 • The Alma Club • Isla Dewar • ss *
177 • An Ode to the Barbie Doll on Her 40th Birthday • Kathy Lette • ss *
185 • Love Is Science Fiction • Jessica Adams • ss *
199 • What Goes Around... • Louise Bagshaw • ss *
211 • Stone Money • Serena Mackesy • ss *
229 • Changing People • Sophie Kinsella • ss *
249 • There Is a God • Maggie Alderson • ss *
265 • The Fortune Teller • Santa Montefiore • ss *
279 • Weddngs and Wnderbras • Imogen Edwards-Jones • ss *
297 • The Masturbation Map • Stephanie Theobald • ss *
313 • For a Few Dollars Whore I & II • Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees • gp *; For a Few Dollars Whore I: The Madam, ss; For a Few Dollars Whore II: The Gunslinger, ss
• Boys’ Night In
ix • Introduction • Jessica Adams, Chris Manby & Fiona Walker • in (*), 2001
xix • Foreword • Neil Morrissey & Hugo Speer • fw (*), 2001
3 • Grumpus • Mike Gayle • ss *
21 • The Deck Hangers • Robert Llewellyn • nv *
43 • Last Glance Back • Michael Marshall Smith • ss *
63 • Little Boots - An Unfairy Tale • Mark Barrowcliffe • nv *
85 • Bighead • Marc Blake • ss *
105 • Actually, twenty-three beers will not improve your judgement • John Birmingham • ss *
115 • Chapter & Verse • Colin Bateman • ss *
133 • Ultimate Um • John Hegley • ss *
151 • Green • Nick Earls • ss *
169 • Obedience • Patrick Gale • ss *
189 • Relative Madness • Hector Macdonald • ss *
211 • Enfemme • Matt Whyman • ss *
227 • Forwards • Mark Powell • ss *
247 • Boy’s Night In • Matt Beaumont • ss *
Mini Sagas from the Daily Telegraph Competition ed. Brian Aldiss (Sutton Publishing 0-7509-1594-3, 1997, £7.99, xiv+242pp, tp, cover by Jeff Fisher); Anthology of 230 original 50-word “mini sagas” submitted to the Daily Telegraph competition. Only selected contents listed.

vii • Preface • Victoria Glendinning • pr *
ix • Introduction • Brian Aldiss • in *
xi • Great Art • Brian Aldiss • vi *
xiv • Animal Dreams • Brian Aldiss • pm The Secret of this Book, HarperCollins UK, 1995
25 • Pensée for Prep • Mary Wesley • vi *
94 • Being Right in the Wrong Way Seems Crazier Than Being Wrong in the Right Way • Victoria Glendinning • vi *
104 • How the Faithful Biographer Completed His Life’s Work • Richard Holmes • vi *
118 • The Distinguished Thing in a Bottle • A. S. Byatt • vi *
120 • The Beggar’s Riposte • Maggie Gee • vi *
122 • Midnight’s Child • P. D. James • vi *
140 • The Rise and Fall of the Empire • Louis de Bernières • vi *
145 • Frying Tonight • Beryl Bainbridge • vi *
163 • Fishing at Night • Nicholas Shakespeare • vi *
165 • Mix ’n’ Match ’n’ Mix • Bernice Rubens • vi *
195 • Why Working Mothers Shouldn’t • Edwina Currie • vi *
209 • New Advances • Fay Weldon • vi *
217 • The Thousand Pieces of Love • Rose Tremain • vi *
240 • Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror • Ruth Rendell • vi *
Discovery No. 1 ed. John W. Aldridge & Vance Bourjaily (Pocket Books, Feb ’53, 35¢, 292+xii, pb); [TM]

vii • Preface • The Editors • ed *
1 • Rockabye Baby • Arnold Grisman • ss *
10 • A Cup of Kindness • William Iversen • ss *
37 • The Outing • Julia Savarese • ss *
52 • Prairie Wife • Richard Lyons • pm *
56 • The Dead Gook • Norman Mailer • ss *
77 • A Stranger from a Far Countree • Stanley Baron • es *
96 • Inflation-on-the-Erle (Letter from Cleveland, Ohio) • Herbert Gold • ss *
106 • Three Poems: Explorer on the Axis; Poet Mind; The Modern Classicist • Lyon Phelps • pm *
109 • Saturday Night • Hortense Calisher • ss *
122 • The Only Time • Chandler Brossard • ex *; a version of the first chapter of THE BOLD SABOTEURS, scheduled for 1953 from Farrar, Straus and Young.
142 • Happy Ending • Kenneth Fearing • ss *
154 • My Sons, Watch Out • Louis Ginsberg • pm *
155 • News Report • David Ignatow • pm *
156 • One for the Boys • Samuel Elkin • ss *
170 • The Hangman’s Tale • Marguerite Young • ss *
190 • The Cross Road • Charles Miller • pm *
190 • The Place of Fire • Charles Miller • pm *
194 • Confessions of an American Marijuana Smoker • U. S. D. Quincey • es *
215 • Baby’s Christmas • P. Aleyunas • ss *
221 • Long March • William Styron • na *
285 • Contributors to DISCOVERY #1 • Misc. Material • bi *
Nelson Algren’s Own Book of Lonesome Monsters ed. Nelson Algren (Lancer 73-409, 1962, 60¢, 192pp, pb)

7 • Preface • Nelson Algren • pr
11 • A World Full of Great Cities • Joseph Heller • ss Great Tales of City Dwellers, ed. Alex Austin, Lion Library Editions, 1955
24 • Talk to Me, Talk to Me • Joan Kerckhoff • ss, 1962
34 • Show Biz Connections • Bruce Jay Friedman • ss, 1962
44 • Hundred Dollar Eyes • Bernard Farbar • ss, 1962
54 • The Man Who Knew What Ethopia Should Do About Her Water Table • H. E. F. Donohue • ss The Carleton Miscellany, 1961
68 • Among the Dangs • George P. Elliott • nv Esquire Jun ’58
95 • Peacetime • Brock Brower • ss, 1961
111 • The Shores of Schizophrenia • Hughes Rudd • ss, 1961
120 • Day of the Alligator • James Blake • ss The Paris Review #17 ’57
136 • Address of Gooley MacDowell to the Hasbeens Club of Chicago • Saul Bellow • ss The Hudson Review, 1951
143 • The Closing of This Door Must Be Oh, So Gentle • Chandler Brossard • ss The Dial, 1962
157 • Entropy • Thomas Pynchon • ss The Kenyon Review Spr ’60
173 • The House of the Hundred Grassfires • Nelson Algren • ss, 1956
American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 ed. Elizabeth Ammons & Valerie Rohy (Penguin Classic 0-14-043688-X, Feb ’98, $13.95, 432pp, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog.

• Introduction • Elizabeth Ammons & Valerie Rohy • in
• SOUTH
• from Nights with Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris • ss, 1883
• Dave’s Neckliss • Charles Chesnutt • ss Atlantic Monthly Oct, 1889
• The Sheriff’s Children • Charles Chesnutt • ss New York Independent Nov 7, 1889
• The Praline Woman • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • ss, 1899
• The Stones of the Village • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • ss, 1910
• The Story of an Hour • Kate Chopin • ss, 1894
• The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
• The Dancin’ Party at Harrison’s Cove • Mary Noailles Murfree • ss, 1878
• MIDWEST
• Scrambled Eggs • Gertrude Dorsey Brown • ss, 1905
• The Voice of the Rich Pudding • Gertrude Dorsey Brown • ss, 1907
• Up the Coolly • Hamlin Garland • ss, 1893
• Pontiac’s Lookout • Mary Hartwell Catherwood • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul, 1894
• from The Fus Fixico Letters • Alexander Lawrence Posey • ss, 1903
• from Mr. Dooley in Peace and War • Finley Peter Dunne • ss, 1896
• Hands • Sherwood Anderson • ss Masses Mar ’16
• NORTHEAST
• A New England Nun • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • ss, 1891
• The Queen’s Twin • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb, 1899
• The Foreigner • Sarah Orne Jewett • nv Atlantic Monthly Aug ’00
• The Apostate of Chego-Chegg • Abraham Cahan • ss, 1899
• Talma Gordon • Pauline Hopkins • ss, 1900
• Bro’r Abr’m Jimson’s Wedding • Pauline Hopkins • ss, 1901
• On Being Crazy • W. E. B. Du Bois • ss, 1907
• WEST
• An Ingenue of the Sierras • Bret Harte • ss, 1893
• Its Wavering Image • Sui Sin Far • ss, 1912
• The Wisdom of the New • Sui Sin Far • ss, 1912
• In a Far Country • Jack London • ss Overland Monthly Jun, 1899
• To the Man on Trail • Jack London • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1899
• The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin • ss, 1903
• The Soft-Hearted Sioux • Zitkala-Sä • ss Harper’s Mar ’01
• Iktomi and the Ducks • Zitkala-Sä • ss, 1901
• The Vine-Leaf • Maria Cristina Mena • ss The Century Dec ’14
• Explanatory Notes • Misc. Material • ms
Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction ed. Donald Anderson (Holt 0805036563, Apr ’95, $12.95, 272pp, tp); Contents list from Yahoo Books.

• Foreword • George C. Herring • fw
• An Introduction: “Confessions of a Noncombatant” • Donald Anderson • in
1 • Vietnam No Big Deal • James Park Sloan • ss
15 • Testimony of Pilot • Barry Hannah • ss
47 • A Bridge • Louise Erdrich • ss
61 • Speaking of Courage • Tim O’Brien • ss Massachusetts Review Sum ’76
79 • Soldier’s Joy • Tobias Wolff • ss Esquire Oct ’85
103 • The Missing Person • Maxine Kumin • ss TriQuarterly, 1978
115 • The Art of Living • John Gardner • ss
151 • War Torn • Lynne Hanley • ss
159 • Despair • Robley Wilson • ss
167 • Kid MacArthur • Stephanie Vaughn • ss New Yorker Dec 17 ’84
193 • Baby Teeth • Donald Anderson • ss
201 • Letters from My Father • Robert Olen Butler • ss
211 • The Pugilist at Rest • Thom Jones • ss New Yorker Dec 2 ’91
235 • Helping • Robert Stone • ss New Yorker Jun 8 ’87
Side Show 1997: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction ed. Shelley Anderson, Marjorie K. Jacobs & Kathe Stolz (Somersault Press 0-963-05635-2, Jan ’97, $11.00, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.

• Foreword • Shelley Anderson, Marjorie K. Jacobs & Kathe Stolz • fw
• Modern Times • Charles Fenno • ss
• This Is Not About You • Adele Levin • ss
• The Interviewer • Susan Welch • ss
• Abandoning Nature • Ericka Lutz • ss
• Celebration • Charles Fenno • ss
• Victory Walk • Robert Appelbaum • ss
• The Ambassador’s Wife • Martha Kent • ss
• Arctic Radiance • Kevin Breen • ss
• Cycle • Charles Fenno • ss
• On Naxos • Laurell Swails • ss
• Hatshepsut • Susan Welch • ss
• Firewalking • Marianne Rogoff • ss
• Jonalee • Lee Vining • ss
Stories From The Literary Review ed. Charles Angoff (Associated University Presses 8386-6899-2, 1969, $8.00, 312pp, hc); Anthology of 24 stories reprinted from the first decade of The Literary Review.

5 • Foreword • Charles Angoff • fw
13 • Two Short Stories • Heimito von Doderer; trans. by Astrid Ivask • ss The Literary Review Win ’62
20 • The Broken Globe • Henry Kreisel • ss The Literary Review Sum ’65
35 • The Last Rite • Lee Yu-Hwa • ss The Literary Review Sum ’64
54 • The Eye • Cecil Bødker; trans. by Walter Foote • ss The Literary Review Aut ’64
65 • Still Life • Gerd Helbemäe • ss The Literary Review Spr ’65
79 • October • Stijn Streuvels; trans. by Marnix Gijsen • ss The Literary Review Spr ’64
93 • Other Versions • Ama Ata Aidoo • ss The Literary Review Sum ’68
103 • Birth • Mulk Raj Anand • ss The Literary Review Aut ’67
114 • A Boy with a Gun • Desmond Clarke • ss The Literary Review Win ’57
124 • The Bridge • Taijun Takeda; trans. by Warren Carlisle • ss The Literary Review Aut ’62
140 • Mrs. Kimble • S. Nair • ss The Literary Review Sum ’68
144 • My Mother and the Roomer • Chu Yo-Sup • ss The Literary Review Sum ’64
161 • Tale of a Return • Andrejs Irbe; trans. by Ruth Spiers • ss The Literary Review Spr ’65
170 • The Organ of Kurkliskés • Julius Kaupas & Peter Sears, adapt. • ss The Literary Review Spr ’65
187 • The Swamp • A. Alberts; trans. by Alex Brotherton • ss The Literary Review Win ’61
199 • Indoro Bush College • Richard A. Freeman • ss The Literary Review Sum ’68
208 • The Yellow Shawl • Francisco Arcellana • ss The Literary Review Sum ’60
221 • Beside the Railroad Track • Zofia Nalkowska; trans. by Edmund Ordon • ss The Literary Review Spr ’67
228 • Negostina • Alecu Ivan Ghilia • ss The Literary Review Sum ’67
239 • Three Sketches • Nikolay Narokov; trans. by Cynthia Hausmann • gp The Literary Review Win ’64; The Black Something, ss; An Inexpensive Present for My Nephew, ss; Treetops, ss
248 • Polluted Zone • Lars Ahlin; trans. by Walter Johnson • ss The Literary Review Win ’65
270 • They Stole Our Cattle • Nathaniel Obudo • ss The Literary Review Sum ’68
275 • The Fine White Mist of Winter • Joyce Carol Oates • ss The Literary Review Spr ’62
295 • The Death of Mr. Goluza • Branimir Scepanovic; trans. by Donald Davenport • ss The Literary Review Win ’67

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