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- Texas Bound Book III: 22 Texas Stories ed. Kay Cattarulla (Southern Methodist University Press 0870744267, Apr 2001, $22.50, 240pp, hc)
- Great Modern Short Stories ed. Bennett Cerf (Random House, 1942, 480pp, hc)
- Modern American Short Stories ed. Bennett Cerf (World, 1945, 384pp, hc)
- The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology ed. Ann Charters (Bedford Books 0-312-19176-6, Aug ’99, $54.70, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Preface • Ann Charters • pr
- • Introduction: Some Precursors of the American Short Story • Ann Charters • in
- • The Smith-Pocahontas Legend • John Smith • ss
- • The Origin of the Creek Confederacy • Chekilli • ss
- • The Theft of Fire • Shasta • ss
- • From Concerning the League • John Arthur Gibson • ss
- • The Arrival of the Dutch • John Heckewelder • ss
- • All God’s Chillen Had Wings • Caesar Grant • ss
- • Sunrise in My Pocket • Davy Crockett • ss
- • Almanacs
- • Peter Klaus the Goatherd • J. C. C. Nachtigal • ss
- • Stories
- • Early Nineteenth Century: 1819-1860
- • Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • Peter Rugg, the Missing Man • William Austin • nv New England Galaxy Sep 10, 1824
- • The Indian Hater • James Hall • ss
- • Cacoethes Scribendi • Catharine Maria Sedgwick • ss
- • The Dance • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet • ss
- • The Minister’s Black Veil • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Token, 1836, ed. S. G. Goodrich, C. Bowen: Boston, 1835
- • The Fall of the House of Usher • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
- • The Big Bear of Arkansas • Thomas Bangs Thorpe • ss
- • Slavery’s Pleasant Homes • Lydia Maria Child • ss
- • The Land-Fever • Caroline Kirkland • ss
- • The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee • William Gilmore Simms • ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Feb, 1840
- • The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One • Harriet Beecher Stowe • ss
- • The Angel Over the Right Shoulder • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps • ss, 1852
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • The Two Offers • Frances E. W. Harper • ss
- • Circumstance • Harriet Prescott Spofford • ss Atlantic Monthly May, 1860
- • Late Nineteenth Century: 1861-1899
- • Life in the Iron-Mills, or The Korl Woman • Rebecca Harding Davis • ss, 1861
- • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Mark Twain • ss, 1867
- • The Luck of Roaring Camp • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Aug, 1868
- • Belles Demoiselles Plantation • George Washington Cable • ss The Century Jun ’13
- • Rodman the Keeper • Constance Fenimore Woolson • ss
- • One of the Missing • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Mar 11, 1888
- • The Return of a Private • Hamlin Garland • nv
- • The Revolt of “Mother” • Mary Wilkins Freeman • ss, 1890
- • How Celia Changed Her Mind • Rose Terry Cooke • ss, 1891
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Queen’s Twin • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb, 1899
- • The Little Room • Madeline Yale Wynne • ss Harper’s Monthly Aug, 1895
- • Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament • Kate Chopin • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug, 1896 (+1)
- • The Wife of His Youth • Charles W. Chesnutt • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul, 1898
- • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • Tony’s Wife • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • ss
- • Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1940
- • The Trial Path • Zitkala-Sä • ss Harper’s Oct ’01
- • The Duplicity of Hargraves • O. Henry • ss The Junior Munsey Feb ’02
- • A Wagner Matinée • Willa Cather • ss Everybody’s Magazine Mar ’04
- • The Other Two • Edith Wharton • ss Colliers Feb 13 ’04
- • All Gold Canyon • Jack London • nv The Century Nov ’05
- • The Walking Woman • Mary Austin • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’07
- • The Jolly Corner • Henry James • nv The English Review Dec ’08
- • Its Wavering Image • Sui Sin Far • ss, 1912
- • Hands • Sherwood Anderson • ss Masses Mar ’16
- • The Lost Phœbe • Theodore Dreiser • ss The Century Apr ’16
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • My Own People • Anzia Yezierska • ss
- • Winter Dreams • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Metropolitan Magazine Dec ’22
- • The Golden Honeymoon • Ring Lardner • ss Cosmopolitan Jul ’22
- • Miss Furr and Miss Skeene • Gertrude Stein • ss
- • Blood-Burning Moon • Jean Toomer • ss Prairie Mar-Apr ’23
- • Soldier’s Home • Ernest Hemingway • ss, 1925
- • He • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • You Were Perfectly Fine • Dorothy Parker • ss
- • Spotted Horses • William Faulkner • ss Scribner’s Jun ’31
- • A Summer Tragedy • Arna Bontemps • ss
- • The Gilded Six-Bits • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • Red-Headed Baby • Langston Hughes • ss
- • Seventy Thousand Assyrians • William Saroyan • ss
- • The Use of Force • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
- • The Snake • John Steinbeck • ss The Monterey Beacon Jun 22 ’35
- • In Dreams Begin Responsibilities • Delmore Schwartz • ss, 1937
- • He Is Thousands • Jack Conroy • ss
- • The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
- • Mid-Twentieth Century: 1941-1965
- • His Own Country • Pearl S. Buck • ss Cosmopolitan Oct ’35
- • The Portable Phonograph • Walter Van Tilburg Clark • ss The Yale Review Spr ’41
- • The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt • Mary McCarthy • ss
- • A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud • Carson McCullers • ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1943
- • The Catbird Seat • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Nov 14 ’42
- • Flying Home • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • We’re the only colored people here • Gwendolyn Brooks • ss
- • Winter Night • Kay Boyle • ss New Yorker Jan 19 ’46
- • The Enormous Radio • John Cheever • ss New Yorker May 17 ’47
- • The Petrified Woman • Caroline Gordon • ss Mademoiselle Sep ’47
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • The Conversion of the Jews • Philip Roth • ss The Paris Review Spr ’58
- • Promise of Rain • Peter Taylor • ss
- • Everything That Rises Must Converge • Flannery O’Connor • ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
- • The Sharks • John O’Hara • ss
- • Harrison Bergeron • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • ss F&SF Oct ’61
- • Where Is the Voice Coming From? • Eudora Welty • ss
- • Late Twentieth Century: 1966-Present
- • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country • William Gass • nv New American Review #1 ’67
- • Title • John Barth • ss
- • The Police Band • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again • Joyce Carol Oates • ss TriQuarterly Spr ’69
- • 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 • Richard Brautigan • ss
- • A Conversation with My Father • Grace Paley • ss
- • Are These Actual Miles? • Raymond Carver • ss
- • Everyday Use • Alice Walker • ss
- • Yellow Woman • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss, 1974
- • Separating • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 23 ’75
- • Big Bertha Stories • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss Mother Jones Apr ’85
- • In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried • Amy Hempel • ss
- • The Tenant • Bharati Mukherjee • ss The Literary Review, 1986
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Miss Clairol • Helena María Viramontes • ss
- • Second Question • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker Jun 10 ’91
- • Related Commentary:
- • Where Characters Come From • Ann Beattie • ar
- • Texts • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss American Short Fiction, 1990
- • newborn thrown in trash and dies • John Edgar Wideman • ss
- • The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore • Sherman Alexie • ss
- • Tiny, Smiling Daddy • Mary Gaitskill • ss
- • Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens • Lorrie Moore • ss
- • Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? • Gina Berriault • ss
- • New York Day Woman • Edwidge Danticat • ss
- • Saul and Patsy Are in Labor • Charles Baxter • ss
- • Water Names • Lan Samantha Chang • ss
- • The Bunchgrass Edge of the World • Annie Proulx • ss New Yorker Nov 30 ’98
- • Commentaries
- • Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman • Paula Gunn Allen • ar
- • Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story • Sherwood Anderson • ar
- • Regionalism in American Fiction • Mary Austin • ar
- • Autobiographical Notes • James Baldwin • bg
- • It’s a Short Story • John Barth • ar
- • Hemingway’s Short Stories • H. E. Bates • ar [Ernest Hemingway]
- • Where Characters Come From • Ann Beattie • ar
- • On Jean Toomer and Cane • Arna Bontemps • ar [Jean Toomer]
- • Creative Writing 101 • Raymond Carver • ar
- • Miss Jewett • Willa Cather • ar [Sarah Orne Jewett]
- • On Certain Brisk, Bright Days • Kate Chopin • ar
- • Tillie Olsen: The Iron and the Riddle • Robert Coles • ar [Tillie Olsen]
- • Crazy for Stories • Richard Ford • ar
- • Local Color in Art • Hamlin Garland • ar
- • From Preface to In the Heart of the Heart of the Country • William Gass • pr, 1968
- • A Feminist Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” • Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar • ar [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
- • Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ar
- • The Rise of the “Short Story” • Bret Harte • ar
- • Preface to Twice-Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne • pr
- • Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stories • William Dean Howells • ar [Charles W. Chesnutt]
- • What White Publishers Won’t Print • Zora Neale Hurston • ar
- • Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 • Washington Irving • lt
- • The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery” • Shirley Jackson • ar
- • From Hawthorne • Henry James • ar [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- • Looking Back on Girlhood • Sarah Orne Jewett • ar
- • How to Write Short Stories • Ring Lardner • ar
- • From Short Story Theory at a Crossroads • Susan Lohafer • ar
- • Edgar Allan Poe and “The Fall of the House of Usher” • James Russell Lowell • ar [Edgar Allan Poe]
- • On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” • Bobbie Ann Mason • ar [Tim O’Brien]
- • From The Philosophy of the Short-Story • Brander Matthews • ar
- • Edgar Allan Poe---Critical Context • Charles E. May • ar [Edgar Allan Poe]
- • From “Hawthorne and His Mosses” • Herman Melville • ar [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- • A Deconstructive Reading of Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” • J. Hillis Miller • ar [Herman Melville]
- • Stories of American Life • Mary Russell Mitford • ar
- • Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction • Flannery O’Connor • ar
- • From The Lonely Voice • Frank O’Connor • ar
- • A Conversation with Ann Charters • Grace Paley • iv [Ann Charters]
- • The Short Story, through a Couple of the Ages • Dorothy Parker • ar
- • Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales • Edgar Allan Poe • br [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- Short Stories ed. Henry Christ & Jerome Shostak (New York: Oxford Book Co., 1948, $2.08, 429pp, hc); A general fiction anthology textbook. Only selected stories listed.
- • Part II: Stories of Suspense and Terror
- • The Waxwork [as by Ex-Private X] • A. M. Burrage • ss Someone in the Room, Jarrolds, 1931
- • The Open Window • Saki • ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 18 ’11
- • The Inexperienced Ghost [“The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost”] • H. G. Wells • ss The Strand Mar ’02
- • August Heat • W. F. Harvey • ss Midnight House and Other Tales, J.M. Dent, 1910
- • A Struggle for Life • Thomas Bailey Aldrich • ss Atlantic Monthly Jul, 1867
- • Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment [“The Fountain of Youth”] • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Knickerbocker Jan, 1837
- Wisconsin Fiction: Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Issue ed. Marshall Cook (University of Wisconsin Press 1882280016, Jan ’98, $12.95, 144pp, tp); Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol 85. Contents from Amazon.com.
- Dare You: stories to surprise you ed. Wendy Cooling (Dolphin 1-85881-604-1, Nov ’97, £1.00, 71pp, pb, cover by George Smith); Young-adult anthology of 5 original stories, 2 of genre interest.
- Revelation & Other Fiction from the Sewane Review: A Centennial Anthology ed. George Core (Harmony House 1564690121, Nov ’92, $23.95, 304pp, hc); Contents list from Yahoo Books.
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