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- American Short Stories (7th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Longman 0321080564, Dec 2001, $48.00, 704pp, tp); Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Section One (1820-1890): Romanticism and Realism
- • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • The Birthmark • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Pioneer Mar, 1843
- • The Black Cat • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Philadelphia United States Saturday Post Aug 19, 1843
- • The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] • Edgar Allan Poe • nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, 1844, 1844
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Samuel Langhorne Clemens • ss, 1867
- • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
- • “Europe” • Henry James • ss
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • The Passing of Grandison • Charles W. Chesnutt • ss
- • Section Two (1890-1920): Maturation and Seasoning
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • At the ’Cadian Ball • Kate Chopin • ss
- • The Revolt of “Mother” • Mary Wilkins Freeman • ss, 1890
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Caballero’s Way • William Sydney Porter • ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul ’07
- • The Other Two • Edith Wharton • ss Colliers Feb 13 ’04
- • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- • Paper Pills • Sherwood Anderson • ss
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • Section Three (1920-1940): Modernist Voices
- • The Use of Force • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
- • The Grave • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • The Gilded Six-Bits • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Mar 18 ’39
- • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • Hills Like White Elephants • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • Thank You, Ma’m • Langston Hughes • ss, 1958
- • Big Boy Leaves Home • Richard Wright • ss
- • Section Four (1940-1980): Tradition and Innovation
- • The Hitch-Hikers • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review Aut ’39
- • The Swimmer • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jul 18 ’64
- • The Magic Barrel • Bernard Malamud • ss The Paris Review Nov-Dec ’54
- • Samuel • Grace Paley • ss
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • Revelation • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Sewanee Review Spr ’64
- • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
- • The School • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker, 1974
- • Cartoon • Robert Coover • ss
- • A & P • John Updike • ss
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • A Girl’s Story • Toni Cade Bambara • ss
- • Section Five (1980-present): Contemporary Diversity
- • Boxes • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Feb 24 ’86
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • Nineteen Fifty-Five • Alice Walker • ss
- • Hunters in the Snow • Tobias Wolff • ss TriQuarterly #48 ’80
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Gryphon • Charles Baxter • ss Epoch, 1985
- • The Reach [“Do the Dead Sing?”] • Stephen King • ss Yankee Nov ’81
- • The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists • Lydia Davis • ss
- • De Rerum Natura • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • Cheers • Jayne Anne Phillips • ss
- • Pet Fly • Walter Mosley • ss New Yorker Dec 13 ’99
- • Fleur • Louise Erdrich • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • The Cariboo Café • Helena María Viramontes • ss, 1985
- • Ciudad Juárez • Elizabeth Tallent • ss
- • Birthmates • Gish Jen • ss
- • This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona • Sherman Alexie • ss Esquire Jun ’93
- • This Blessed House • Jhumpa Lahiri • ss
- God: Stories ed. C. Michael Curtis (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-92971-7, Dec ’98, $14.00, 400pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- The Sound of Two Lip Disks Clacking ed. Ali Dada, and the 40 Thieves (Chicago, IL: The Press of the Third Mind 0-666271-341-8, 1988, $5.00, 135pp, tp); [RB]
- Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures ed. Edwidge Danticat (Beacon Press 0-807-06244-8, Oct 2000, $28.50, 304pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Prize Stories, the Best of 1997: The O. Henry Awards ed. Larry Dark (Anchor 0-385-48361-9, Oct ’97, $11.00, 464pp, tp)
- Prize Stories, the Best of 1998: The O. Henry Awards ed. Larry Dark (Doubleday 0-385-48958-7, Sep ’98, $11.95, 464pp, tp)
- The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, the Best of 1999 ed. Larry Dark (Doubleday 0-385-49358-4, Sep ’99, $11.95, 443pp, tp)
- Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards ed. Larry Dark (Anchor Books 0-385-49877-2, Sep 2000, $13.00, 404pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Intoxication: An anthology of stimulant-based writing ed. Toni Davidson (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-558-X, Apr ’98 [May ’98], £8.99, x+213pp, tp); Associational anthology of original mainstream and genre stories by Jeff Noon, Irvine Welsh, Marina Blake, and 12 others.
- American Fiction, No. 9 ed. Alan Davis & Michael White (New Rivers Press 0-898-23180-9, Nov ’97, $19.95, 225pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
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