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The Best American Short Stories 1975 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1975, xxii+314pp, hc); [RRH]

xi · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw
1 · The Lie · Russell Banks · ss Fiction International #2/3 ’74
8 · The School · Donald Barthelme · ss New Yorker, 1974
12 · How to Win · Rosellen Brown · ss Massachusetts Review v14 #4 ’74
26 · Desert Matinee · Jerry Bumpus · ss Fiction International #2/3 ’74
37 · Bambi Meets the Furies · Frederick Busch · ss The Ohio Review Fll ’74
47 · Waiting for Astronauts · Nancy Chaikin · ss The Colorado Quarterly Aut ’74
59 · Paths Unto the Dead · Mary Clearman · ss Georgia Review Sum ’74
69 · Tyranny · Lyll Becerra de Jenkins · ss New Yorker, 1974
80 · Cadence · Andre Dubus · nv The Sewanee Review Sum ’74
100 · Big Boy · Jesse Hill Ford · ss Atlantic Monthly, 1974
111 · The Spirit in Me · William Hoffman · ss The Sewanee Review Spr ’74
124 · The Analyst · Evan Hunter · ss Playboy Dec ’74
137 · How Jerem Came Home · Paul Kaser · ss The Colorado Quarterly Aut ’74
144 · The Lost Salt Gift of Blood · Alistair Macleod · ss The Southern Review, 1974
162 · The Burial · Jack Matthews · ss Georgia Review Win ’74
178 · The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax · Eugene McNamara · ss Canadian Fiction Magazine Win ’74
197 · Night and Day at Panacea · Reynolds Price · ss Harper’s Aug ’74
212 · Polonaise · Abraham Rothberg · nv Massachusetts Review v15 #4 ’74
254 · Lullaby · Leslie Silko · ss Chicago Review v26 #1 ’74
264 · The Man Who Lived · Barry Targan · ss The Southern Review, 1974
278 · The American Sickness · Jose Yglesias · ss Massachusetts Review v15 #4 ’74
291 · Biographical Notes · Misc. · bg
297 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1974 · Misc. · bi
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. · bg
349 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1975 · Misc. · 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 Jan ’76
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. · bg
355 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1976 · Misc. · 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 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 New American Review #13 ’71
· 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 Redbook Jun ’71
· 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. · ms
· B. Finding and Documenting Source Materials for Research Papers · Misc. · ms
· Index · Misc. · ix

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