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- The Best American Short Stories 1975 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1975, xxii+314pp, hc); [RRH]
- The Best American Short Stories 1976 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1976, xx+364pp, hc); [RRH]
- xi • Foreword • Martha Foley • fw
- 1 • Roses, Rhododendron • Alice Adams • ss New Yorker Jan 27 ’75
- 15 • Terminal Procedure • M. Pabst Battin • ss American Review #22 ’75
- 34 • The Boy Who Was Astrid’s Mother • Mae Seidman Briskin • nv Ascent, 1975
- 54 • Beautiful, Helpless Animals • Nancy Chaikin • ss The Colorado Quarterly, 1975
- 68 • The Actes and Monuments • John William Corrington • nv The Sewanee Review Win ’75
- 98 • A Chronicle of Love • H. E. Francis • ss Kansas Quarterly Win-Spr ’75
- 116 • Pontius Pilate • John Hagge • ss The Carleton Miscellany Oct 14 ’75
- 133 • Dietz at War • Ward Just • ss The Virginia Quarterly Aut ’75
- 145 • John Henry’s Home • John McCluskey • ss The Iowa Review, 1975
- 156 • Grubbing for Roots • Stephen Minot • ss North American Review, 1975
- 170 • Looking into Nothing • Kent Nelson • ss Transatlantic Review, 1975
- 181 • A Mercenary • Cynthia Ozick • nv American Review #23 ’75
- 209 • Broad Day • Reynolds Price • ss Shenandoah, 1975
- 220 • Wondermonger • Michael Rothschild • na Antæus Sum ’75
- 274 • Surviving Adverse Seasons • Barry Targan • nv Salmagundi, 1975
- 314 • The Hand of Emmagene • Peter Taylor • ss Shenandoah, 1975
- 333 • The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals • John Updike • ss New Yorker, 1975
- 341 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- 349 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1975 • Misc. Material • bi
- The Best American Short Stories 1977 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1977, xx+374pp, hc); [RRH]
- xi • Foreword • Martha Foley • fw
- 1 • The Trouble with Being Food • Frederick Busch • ss Esquire, 1976
- 15 • Tarzan Meets the Department Head • Price Caldwell • ss The Carleton Miscellany, 1976
- 24 • Falconer • John Cheever • ss Playboy, 1976
- 43 • At Peace • Ann Copeland • nv Canadian Fiction Magazine Aug ’76
- 66 • Pleadings • John William Corrington • nv The Southern Review, 1976
- 102 • Growing Up in No Time • Philip Damon • ss Hawaii Review, 1976
- 111 • The Steinway Quintet • Leslie Epstein • na Antæus, 1976
- 161 • The Lover • Eugene K. Garber • nv Shenandoah, 1976
- 181 • Look at a Teacup • Patricia Hampl • ss New Yorker, 1976
- 188 • Rider • Baine Kerr • ss The Denver Quarterly, 1976
- 205 • A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon • John Matthews • ss Malahat Review Jul ’76
- 210 • A Passion for History • Stephen Minot • ss The Sewanee Review Spr ’76
- 222 • The Woman Who Thought Like a Man • Charles Newman • ss The Partisan Review v43 #4 ’76
- 235 • Gay • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Playboy Dec ’76
- 256 • Going After Cacciato • Tim O’Brien • nv Ploughshares Spr ’76
- 275 • The Chink and the Clock People • Tom Robbins • ss American Review, 1976
- 291 • A Fresno Fable • William Saroyan • vi New Yorker, 1976
- 293 • Breed • John Sayles • nv Atlantic Monthly Jul ’76
- 317 • Your Place Is Empty • Anne Tyler • nv New Yorker, 1976
- 338 • Anthropology: What Is Lost in Rotation • William S. Wilson • ss Antæus, 1976
- 351 • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- 355 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1976 • Misc. Material • bi
- The Best of The Best American Short Stories ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1952, hc); [PDF]
- • How the Devil Came Down Division Street • Nelson Algren • ss Harper’s Bazaar May ’44
- • I’m a Fool • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Dial Feb ’22
- • The Blue Sash • Warren Beck • ss Story Mar ’38
- • Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart • Kay Boyle • ss New Yorker Oct 4 ’41
- • Horse Thief • Erskine Caldwell • ss Vanity Fair, 1933
- • Sex Education • Dorothy Canfield • ss The Yale Review Win ’46
- • The Enormous Radio • John Cheever • ss New Yorker May 17 ’47
- • The Wind and the Snow of Winter • Walter Van Tilburg Clark • ss The Yale Review Win ’45
- • Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest] • Irvin S. Cobb • nv The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 ’17
- • Christ in Concrete • Pietro di Donato • ss Esquire, 1935
- • Hand Upon the Waters [Gavin Stevens] • William Faulkner • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 4 ’39
- • My Old Man • Ernest Hemingway • ss Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co., 1923
- • The Peach Stone • Paul Horgan • ss The Yale Review Sum ’42
- • Haircut • Ring Lardner • ss Liberty Magazine Mar 28 ’25
- • Man on a Road • Albert Maltz • ss (Senior) Scholastic Mar 5 ’38
- • Prince of Darkness • J. F. Powers • nv Accent Win ’46
- • Resurrection of a Life • William Saroyan • ss
- • Search Through the Streets of the City • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Aug 2 ’41
- • The Interior Castle • Jean Stafford • ss The Partisan Review Nov-Dec ’46
- • How Beautiful with Shoes • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss Harper’s Aug ’32
- • The Women on the Wall • Wallace Stegner • nv Harper’s Apr ’46
- • Dawn of Remembered Spring • Jesse Stuart • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’42
- • A Wife of Nashville • Peter Taylor • nv New Yorker Dec 3 ’49
- • The Catbird Seat • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Nov 14 ’42
- • A Curtain of Green • Eudora Welty • ss A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, Harcourt Brace, 1938
- A Web of Stories: An Introduction to Short Fiction ed. Jon & Marjorie Ford (Prentice Hall 0-13-455651-8, 1998, 1232pp, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- • I. INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION
- • 1. Reading Stories
- • 2. Writing about Stories
- • II. STORIES AND CASEBOOKS
- • Casebook: The Folk Story: Tricksters and Lies
- • Helping to Lie (Germany) • Anon. • ss
- • The Tall Tales (Burma) • Anon. • ss
- • A Dispute in Sign Language (Israel) • Anon. • ss
- • The Barn Is Burning (African American) • Anon. • ss
- • The Emperor’s New Clothes • Hans Christian Andersen • ss Eventyr fortalte for Børn, Copenhagen, 1837
- • Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • The Maypole of Merry Mount • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss
- • The Masque of the Red Death • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May, 1842
- • The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
- • Hop-Frog • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Flag of Our Union Mar 17, 1849
- • Casebook: Edgar Allan Poe
- • Preface to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque • Edgar Allan Poe • pr
- • from Marginalia • Edgar Allan Poe • ex
- • Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales • Edgar Allan Poe • br [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- • from Edgar Allen Poe • D. H. Lawrence • ar [Edgar Allan Poe]
- • from Meaning and “The Masque of the Red Death” • Joseph Patrick Roppolo • ar [Edgar Allan Poe]
- • from The House of Poe • Richard Wilbur • ar [Edgar Allan Poe]
- • Looking Death in the Eye: Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (student essay) • Patrick Weekes • ar [Edgar Allan Poe]
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • Three Deaths • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • Political Economy • Mark Twain • ss
- • Paste • Henry James • ss
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • The Necklace • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Confessing • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • A Pair of Silk Stockings • Kate Chopin • ss, 1897
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • The Secret Sharer • Joseph Conrad • nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- • The Web of Circumstance • Charles Chesnutt • ss
- • The Schoolmistress • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Bet • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Darling • Anton Chekhov • ss, 1925
- • Casebook: Anton Chekhov
- • from The Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov • lt
- • from the Fragments from Reminiscences • Maxim Gorky • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • from the Afterword to “The Darling” • Leo Tolstoy • ex [Anton Chekhov]
- • Anton Chekhov • Conrad Aiken • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • from Chekhov’s Prose • Vladimir Nabokov • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • from Reality in Chekhov’s Stories • Eudora Welty • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • Chekhov and the Modern Short Story • Charles E. May • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • from Storytelling in a Double Key • Renato Poggioli • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • Inner and Outer Worlds: A Comparison of Chekhov’s “The Darling” and “The Schoolmistress” (student essay) • Joseph Hsieh • ar [Anton Chekhov]
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Dilettante • Edith Wharton • ss Harper’s Dec ’03
- • The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • Hands • Sherwood Anderson • ss Masses Mar ’16
- • Araby • James Joyce • ss
- • The Boarding House • James Joyce • ss The Dubliners, London: Cape, 1914
- • The Symbol • Virginia Woolf • ss Harper’s Jan ’86
- • A Report to an Academy • Franz Kafka • ss
- • Wintry Peacocks • D. H. Lawrence • ss
- • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- • A Dill Pickle • Katherine Mansfield • ss
- • The Garden-Party • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette Feb 4 ’22 (+2)
- • Casebook: Katherine Mansfield
- • from Katherine Mansfield’s Journal • Katherine Mansfield • ex
- • from Katherine Mansfield’s Letters • Katherine Mansfield • ex
- • from Katherine Mansfield • Middleton Murry • ar [Katherine Mansfield]
- • from A Living Writer: Katherine Mansfield • Elizabeth Bowen • ar [Katherine Mansfield]
- • from Illness, Gender, and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield • Mary Burgan • ar [Katherine Mansfield]
- • Joyce’s “Araby” and Mansfield’s “The Garden-Party”: The Epiphany of Adolescence (student essay) • Cathy Young • ar [Katherine Mansfield]
- • The Jilting of Granny Weatherall • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Guy de Maupassant • Isaac Babel • ss
- • The Baby Party • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Hearst’s International Feb ’25
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • Hills Like White Elephants • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • The Book of Sand • Jorge Luis Borges • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • The Séance • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss
- • An Astrologer’s Day • R. K. Narayan • ss
- • A Visit of Charity • Eudora Welty • ss
- • A Worn Path • Eudora Welty • ss Atlantic Monthly, 1941
- • Casebook: Eudora Welty
- • Struggling against the Plaid: An Interview with Eudora Welty • Jo Brans • iv [Eudora Welty]
- • Words into Fiction • Eudora Welty • ar
- • Place in Fiction • Eudora Welty • ar
- • Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? • Eudora Welty • ar [Eudora Welty]
- • from Eudora Welty: Visited and Revisited • Ruth M. Vande Kieft • ar [Eudora Welty]
- • from A Season of Dreams: The Fiction of Eudora Welty • Alfred Appel, Jr. • ar [Eudora Welty]
- • Shadow Child: A Sequel to “A Worn Path” (student essay) • Amanda Morgan • ar [Eudora Welty]
- • The Norwegian Rat • Naguib Mahfouz • ss
- • Clancy in the Tower of Babel • John Cheever • ss
- • The Five-Forty-Eight • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Apr 10 ’54
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • Angel Levine • Bernard Malamud • ss The Magic Barrel, Farrar, 1958
- • King of the Bingo Game • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • How I Finally Lost My Heart • Doris Lessing • ss A Man and Two Women, London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1963
- • The Mother of the Child in Question • Doris Lessing • ss
- • A Conversation with My Father • Grace Paley • ss
- • The Adventure of a Reader • Italo Calvino • ss
- • Crimes of Conscience • Nadine Gordimer • ss, 1982
- • The Rockpile • James Baldwin • ss
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • Casebook: James Baldwin
- • from The Art of Fiction: An Interview with James Baldwin • Jordan Elgrably & George Plimpton • ar [James Baldwin]
- • Autobiographical Notes • James Baldwin • bg
- • The Creative Process • James Baldwin • ar
- • from “Sonny’s Blues”: James Baldwin’s Image of Black Community • John M. Reilly • ar [James Baldwin]
- • Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in “Sonny’s Blues” • Keith E. Byerman • ar [James Baldwin]
- • Baldwin, Bebop, and “Sonny’s Blues” • Pancho Savery • ar [James Baldwin]
- • Listening to “Sonny’s Blues” (student essay) • Zachary Roberts • ar [James Baldwin]
- • The Magic Chalk • Kobo Abe • ss
- • Revelation • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Sewanee Review Spr ’64
- • Swaddling Clothes • Yukio Mishima • ss
- • The Evolution of Myopia • Clarice Lispector • ss
- • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss Playboy Nov ’71
- • The Madman • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction • John Barth • ss
- • The Sandman • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • Circle of Prayer • Alice Munro • ss The Paris Review, 1986
- • The Brown Chest • John Updike • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’92
- • Park Cinema • Elena Poniatowska • ss
- • Almost Browne • Gerald Vizenor • ss
- • Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter • Chen Rong • ss
- • Snapshots of a Wedding • Bessie Head • ss
- • Why Don’t You Come Live with Me It’s Time • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Tikkun Jul/Aug ’90
- • Intimacy • Raymond Carver • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • Simmering • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Raymond’s Run • Toni Cade Bambara • ss
- • Nomad and Viper • Amos Oz • ss
- • A Wife’s Story • Bharati Mukherjee • ss
- • Airwaves • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’83
- • Doc’s Story • John Edgar Wideman • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Phantom Palace • Isabel Allende • ss
- • Charles Atlas Also Dies [“Even Charles Atlas Dies”] • Sergio Ramírez • ss Playboy Apr ’85
- • A Loaf of Bread • James Alan McPherson • ss
- • Letters from My Father • Robert Olen Butler • ss
- • Roselily • Alice Walker • ss
- • Lady’s Dream • Tobias Wolff • ss Harper’s Dec ’92
- • The Man I Killed • Tim O’Brien • ss
- • Janus • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker May 27 ’85
- • Yellow Woman • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss, 1974
- • Poor Visitor • Jamaica Kincaid • ss New Yorker Feb 27 ’89
- • A Window • Haruki Murakami • ss The Elephant Vanishes, Knopf, 1993
- • The Two • Gloria Naylor • ss
- • Not Like Us • Alberto Alvaro Ríos • ss
- • El Radio • Gary Soto • ss
- • Best Quality • Amy Tan • ss
- • The Monkey Garden • Sandra Cisneros • ss
- • Fleur • Louise Erdrich • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Eleanor’s Tale: The Leap • Louise Erdrich • ss Harper’s Mar ’90
- • Casebook: Louise Erdrich
- • from “An Interview with Louise Erdrich” • Nancy Feyl & Allan Chavkin • iv [Louise Erdrich]
- • Where I Ought to Be: A Writer’s Sense of Place • Louise Erdrich • ar [Louise Erdrich]
- • Comments on Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” • Kathleen M. Sands • ar [Louise Erdrich]
- • Here’s an Odd Artifact for the Fairy-Tale Shelf • Leslie Marmon Silko • ar [Louise Erdrich]
- • Review of Louise Erdrich’s The Beet Queen • Leslie Marmon Silko • br [Louise Erdrich]
- • Race and Gender in Louise Erdrich’s The Beet Queen • Susan Meisenhelder • ar [Louise Erdrich]
- • Storytelling: Tradition and Preservation in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks • Jennifer Sergi • ar [Louise Erdrich]
- • Erdrich’s Dakota as Metaphor for American Culture: Review of Tales of Burning Love • Michael Lee • br [Louise Erdrich]
- • A Cultural Heritage: Louise Erdrich’s Fiction. (student research essay) • Sage Van Wing • ar [Louise Erdrich]
- • Ciudad Juárez • Elizabeth Tallent • ss
- • The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas • Reginald McKnight • ss The Kenyon Review v11 #3 ’89
- • Gravity • David Leavitt • ss
- • III. APPENDIXES
- • A. A Brief History of the Story Form • Misc. Material • ms
- • B. Finding and Documenting Source Materials for Research Papers • Misc. Material • ms
- • Index • Misc. Material • ix
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