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- Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence ed. Marion Dane Bauer (HarperCollins 0-06-024253-1, 1994, 273pp, hc)
- The Best American Short Stories 1987 ed. Ann Beattie & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1987, tp); [DKL]
- ix • Publisher’s Note • Anon. • ms
- xi • Introduction • Ann Beattie • in
- 1 • The Way We Live Now • Susan Sontag • ss New Yorker Nov 24 ’86
- 20 • The Afterlife • John Updike • ss New Yorker Sep 15 ’86
- 34 • The Prince • Craig Nova • ss Esquire May ’86
- 47 • Favor • Elizabeth Tallent • ss New Yorker Apr 21 ’86
- 58 • Kingdom Come • Mavis Gallant • ss New Yorker Sep 8 ’86
- 66 • The Lover of Women • Sue Miller • ss Mademoiselle Mar ’86
- 94 • The Lie Detector • Madison Smartt Bell • ss The Crescent Review, 1986
- 118 • Circle of Prayer • Alice Munro • ss The Paris Review, 1986
- 138 • Dreams of Distant Lives • Lee K. Abbott • ss Harper’s Nov ’86
- 144 • Men Under Water • Ralph Lombreglia • nv Atlantic Monthly Jan ’86
- 165 • Boxes • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Feb 24 ’86
- 178 • The Tenant • Bharati Mukherjee • ss The Literary Review, 1986
- 193 • The Blue Men • Joy Williams • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- 204 • Private Debts/Public Holdings • Kent Haruf • ss Grand Street, 1986
- 218 • How I Found My Brother • Charles Baxter • ss Indiana Review, 1986
- 233 • The Other Miller • Tobias Wolff • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’86
- 247 • Lady of Spain • Robert Taylor, Jr. • ss The Hudson Review Spr ’86
- 267 • The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story • Daniel Stern • ss The Ontario Review Spr-Sum ’86
- 275 • Milk • Ron Carlson • ss North American Review, 1986
- 287 • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- Golden Tales of Our America: Stories of Our Background & Tradition ed. May Lamberton Becker (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1960, hc)
- Many Voices, Many Rooms: A New Anthology of Alabama Writers ed. Philip D. Beidler (University of Alabama Press 0-817-30867-9, Apr ’98, $39.95, 384pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- All Problems Are Simple and Other Stories ed. Robert Benard (Dell 0-440-20164-0, Sep ’88, $3.95, 318pp, pb)
- xiii • Introduction • Robert Benard • in
- 1 • I Am Twenty-one • Mary Robison • ss New Yorker Feb 7 ’83
- 5 • 1939 • Peter Taylor • nv, 1940
- 35 • A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring • Alice Walker • ss, 1971
- 47 • The Anatomy Lesson • Evan Connell • ss, 1953
- 64 • A Different Set of Rules • Daniel Menaker • ss, 1975
- 77 • Christmas Poem • John O’Hara • ss, 1964
- 90 • I Know What You Need • Stephen King • nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’76
- 114 • The Christian Roommates • John Updike • nv, 1964
- 142 • A Short Trip Home • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 17 ’27
- 165 • Houseparty • Walter Bernstein • vi New Yorker
- 168 • A Student in Economics • George Milburn • nv, 1933
- 191 • All Problems Are Simple • Allan Seager • ss
- 200 • Fear of Math • Peter Cameron • ss New Yorker Mar 11 ’85
- 216 • Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend • Irwin Shaw • ss, 1937
- 234 • Judith Kane • Elizabeth Spencer • ss, 1957
- 253 • Sentimental Education • Harold Brodkey • nv New Yorker, 1958
- 278 • The Famous Toboggan of Laughter • Ella Leffland • ss, 1980
- 290 • The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies • Jean Stafford • ss The Kenyon Review Win ’64
- 303 • The Echo • Paul Bowles • ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1947
- Best Short Shorts ed. Eric Berger (Scholastic T81, Dec ’67, 35¢, 183pp, pb)
- 2 • The Shanahan Strad • Paul Jones • ss Colliers, 1948
- 6 • Dinner for Monsieur Martin • Georges Surdez • ss Colliers, 1950
- 10 • The Secret in Green • Mary Dirlam • ss (Senior) Scholastic, 1954
- 14 • The Eyes of Mr. Lovides • John Godey • ss Colliers Jul 23 ’49
- 20 • To Remember These Things • Milton White • ss Seventeen May ’47
- 26 • Champion Stock • Bud Murphy • ss Literary Cavalcade, 1949
- 33 • Double Payment • Peter Brackett • ss (Senior) Scholastic Oct 7 ’53
- 37 • Frame of Mind • Sam F. Ciulla • vi Colliers Jun 22 ’56
- 41 • The Cub • Lois Dykeman Kleihauer • ss Colliers Feb 14 ’53
- 48 • Coroner’s Inquest • Marc Connelly • ss Colliers Feb 8 ’30
- 54 • Smart Kid • Lawrence Williams • ss, 1954
- 59 • Code of the Underworld • Jim Kjelgaard • ss, 1941; EQMM Aug ’53
- 66 • A Battle Over the Teacups • August Derleth • ss Oriental Stories Sum ’32
- 76 • August Heat • W. F. Harvey • ss Midnight House and Other Tales, J.M. Dent, 1910
- 82 • The Open Window • Saki • ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 18 ’11
- 88 • Love Is Kind of Fragile • Robert M. Ross • ss Colliers Oct 19 ’46
- 93 • Miss Moonlight • Mary Knowles • ss The American Magazine, 1951
- 97 • “I’ll Pay the Check” • Margaret Bird • ss (Senior) Scholastic, 1952
- 102 • A Mask for Fear • Ruth Serling • ss Colliers, 1954
- 107 • Snake Dance • Corey Ford • vi Liberty Magazine, 1934
- 110 • A Secret for Two • Quentin Reynolds • ss Colliers, 1940
- 115 • The Hungry Winter • Elizabeth Middleton • ss American Junior Red Cross Journal, 1946
- 120 • Hard Way Out • James L. Schisgall • vi (Senior) Scholastic Feb 2 ’56
- 123 • Two Were Left • Hugh B. Cave • vi The American Magazine Jun ’42
- 128 • One Throw • W. C. Heinz • ss Colliers Jul 15 ’50
- 133 • The Opened Order • Ilse Aichinger • ss The Bound Man and Other Stories, Secker & Warburg, 1955
- 140 • Four Men and a Box • Leslie Gordon Barnard • ss This Week, 1947
- 145 • Every Man for Himself • Robert Zacks • ss (Senior) Scholastic Jan 12 ’56
- 151 • Pilot’s Choice • Hunt Miller • ss This Week, 1954
- 158 • Spelling Bee • Laurene Chambers Chinn • ss Colliers Aug 13 ’49
- 162 • The New Man • Frederick Laing • ss Colliers Feb 24 ’51
- 166 • “I Like It Here” • Carl Zuckmayer • ss This Week, 1950
- 172 • The Voice from the Curious Cube • Nelson S. Bond • ss Top-Notch Mar ’37
- 175 • The Dreamer • Alfred Coppel • vi F&SF Apr ’52
- 180 • The Fun They Had • Isaac Asimov • ss The Boys and Girls Page Dec 1 ’51
- Modern Fiction about School Teaching: An Anthology ed. Jay S. Blanchard & Ursula Casanova (Allyn & Bacon 0205152503, 1996, $34.00, 352pp, hc); Contents list from Yahoo Books.
- Short Fiction ed. Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty (Prentice Hall 0-13-460049-5, 1999, 1264pp, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- • Introduction • Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty • in
- • Dead Men’s Path • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • Roses, Rhododendron • Alice Adams • ss New Yorker Jan 27 ’75
- • A Bicycle • Iqbal Ahmad • ss
- • I’m Working on My Charm • Dorothy Allison • ss
- • I Want to Know Why • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Smart Set Nov ’19
- • Seeing Mrs. Landers • Thea Astley • ss
- • Rape Fantasies • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Hairball • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Gertrude Talks Back • Margaret Atwood • vi
- • The Little Red Hen Tells All • Margaret Atwood • vi
- • Awakening • Isaac Babel • ss
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • The Lesson • Toni Cade Bambara • ss
- • My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories • Russell Banks • ss Vanity Fair, 1987
- • ‘III’ from Three Simple Stories • Julian Barnes • ss
- • Lost in the Funhouse • John Barth • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’67
- • A City of Churches • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • The Chosen Vessel • Barbara Baynton • ss The Bulletin, 1901
- • What Was Mine • Ann Beattie • ss Esquire Nov ’89
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • The End of the Duel • Jorge Luis Borges • ss
- • The Werewolf • Angela Carter • vi The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales, London: Gollancz, 1979; revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- • The Swimmer • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jul 18 ’64
- • The Darling • Anton Chekhov • ss, 1925
- • Gooseberries • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Lady with the Dog • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Death of a Civil Servant • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Story of an Hour • Kate Chopin • ss, 1894
- • Regret • Kate Chopin • ss The Century May, 1895
- • A Respectable Woman • Kate Chopin • ss
- • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Samuel Clemens • ss, 1867
- • The Other Wife • Colette • ss
- • The Secret Sharer • Joseph Conrad • nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- • The Magic Poker • Robert Coover • ss Esquire Jul ’69
- • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- • The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • The Lover and the Tell-Tale [Whilomville Stories] • Stephen Crane • ss Harper’s Monthly Oct, 1899
- • The Blue Jar • Isak Dinesen • ss
- • The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • nv The Strand Aug, 1891
- • The Doctor • Andre Dubus • ss
- • King of the Bingo Game • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • Dry September • William Faulkner • ss Scribner’s Jan ’31
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • A Scrap of Time • Ida Fink • ss
- • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
- • Silence Dogood, No. 1 • Benjamin Franklin • ss
- • April Fish • Mavis Gallant • ss
- • Tuesday Siesta • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Overcoat • Nikolai Gogol • nv, 1842
- • The Life of the Imagination • Nadine Gordimer • ss
- • Two Gentle People • Graham Greene • ss
- • Argument and Persuasion • Donald Hall • ss
- • The Birthmark • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Pioneer Mar, 1843
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • Looking for a Rain God • Bessie Head • ss
- • Vermont Tale • Mark Helprin • ss New Yorker Mar 3 ’80
- • Hills Like White Elephants • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • Indian Camp • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • Who’s Passing for Who? • Langston Hughes • ss
- • Spunk • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • The Real Thing • Henry James • ss Black and White Apr 16, 1892
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • Araby • James Joyce • ss
- • The Metamorphosis • Franz Kafka • nv, 1937; Weisse Blätter Oct ’15.
- • Search and Destroy • Wayne Karlin • ss
- • The Circling Hand • Jamaica Kincaid • ss New Yorker Nov 21 ’83
- • Girl • Jamaica Kincaid • ss
- • Not a Good Girl • Perri Klass • ss Mademoiselle Jul ’83
- • Haircut • Ring Lardner • ss Liberty Magazine Mar 28 ’25
- • My Vocation • Mary Lavin • ss
- • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- • A Place of Safety • Halldór Laxness • ss
- • The Professor’s Houses • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Yorker Nov 1 ’82
- • A Sunrise on the Veld • Doris Lessing • ss African Stories, London: Michael Joseph, 1964
- • Small Causes • Primo Levi • ss
- • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- • Half a Day • Naguib Mahfouz • ss
- • The Magic Barrel • Bernard Malamud • ss The Paris Review Nov-Dec ’54
- • A Dill Pickle • Katherine Mansfield • ss
- • Miss Brill • Katherine Mansfield • ss, 1922
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • The Outstation • W. Somerset Maugham • nv Hearst’s International Jun ’24
- • The Necklace • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • Patriotism • Yukio Mishima • ss Esquire Apr ’66
- • A Father • Bharati Mukherjee • ss
- • Friend of My Youth • Alice Munro • ss New Yorker Jan 22 ’90
- • Boys and Girls • Alice Munro • ss
- • The Passenger • Vladimir Nabokov • ss
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • Shopping • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Ms. Mar ’87
- • The Creature • Edna O’Brien • ss
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Everything That Rises Must Converge • Flannery O’Connor • ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
- • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- • Guests of the Nation • Frank O’Connor • ss
- • Do You Like It Here? • John O’Hara • ss New Yorker
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • A Conversation with My Father • Grace Paley • ss
- • War • Luigi Pirandello • ss
- • The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov, 1846
- • The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
- • Hop-Frog • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Flag of Our Union Mar 17, 1849
- • The Grave • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Flowering Judas • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • The Valiant Woman • J. F. Powers • ss Accent, 1947
- • The Diver • V. S. Pritchett • ss
- • The Conversion of the Jews • Philip Roth • ss The Paris Review Spr ’58
- • I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 • John Sayles • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’75
- • Gimpel the Fool • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • No One’s a Mystery • Elizabeth Tallent • ss Harper’s Aug ’85
- • A Pair of Tickets • Amy Tan • ss
- • Souvenir • John Tavela • ss
- • The Catbird Seat • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Nov 14 ’42
- • The Death of Ivan Ilych • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • The Tryst • Ivan Turgenev • ss
- • A & P • John Updike • ss
- • The Verb to Kill • Luisa Valenzuela • ss
- • The Moths • Helena María Viramontes • ss
- • Roselily • Alice Walker • ss
- • To Hell with Dying • Alice Walker • ss
- • The Welcome Table • Alice Walker • ss
- • Blackberry Winter • Robert Penn Warren • ss, 1931
- • Petrified Man • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review, 1939
- • A Worn Path • Eudora Welty • ss Atlantic Monthly, 1941
- • Roman Fever • Edith Wharton • ss Liberty Magazine Nov 10 ’34
- • Damballah • John Edgar Wideman • ss
- • The Use of Force • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
- • Smokers • Tobias Wolff • ss
- • Kew Gardens • Virginia Woolf • ss May 12 ’19
- • The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
- • WRITERS ON WRITING:
- • From an Interview by Graeme Gibson • Margaret Atwood • iv
- • Interview by Joyce Carol Oates • Margaret Atwood • iv
- • From Survival • Margaret Atwood • ar
- • “Witches,” from Second Words • Margaret Atwood • ar
- • Three excerpts from his letters • Anton Chekhov • lt
- • On Stephen Crane and “The Blue Hotel” • Alfred Kazin • ar [Stephen Crane]
- • Crane on his life • Stephen Crane • ar
- • Crane’s letter to John Hilliard • Stephen Crane • lt
- • Stephen Crane’s Own Story • Stephen Crane • ar
- • Let Me Tell a Story Now... • Bessie Head • ar
- • Biography of a Story • Shirley Jackson • ar
- • To a Young Reader • Primo Levi • ar
- • A Letter to Richard Murray • Katherine Mansfield • lt
- • On Her Own Work • Flannery O’Connor • ar
- • The Brief Prose Tale • Edgar Allan Poe • ar
- • The Writing of “Flowering Judas” • Katherine Anne Porter • ar
- • The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet • Alice Walker • ar
- • Interview with Eudora Welty • Eudora Welty • iv
- • From “Beyond the Peacock,” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens • Eudora Welty • ar
- • “Blackberry Winter”: A Recollection • Robert Penn Warren • ar
- • Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? • Eudora Welty • ar
- • WRITING ABOUT FICTION
- • Glossary • Misc. Material • ms
- • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- • Chronological List of Authors and Titles • Misc. Material • ms
- • Index of Titles • Misc. Material • ix
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