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- The Granta Book of the American Short Story ed. Richard Ford (Penguin/Granta 0-14-014032-8, Oct ’98, $15.95, 736pp, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- • Introduction • Richard Ford • in
- • A Day in the Open • Jane Bowles • ss
- • A Distant Episode • Paul Bowles • ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb ’47
- • Blackberry Winter • Robert Penn Warren • ss, 1931
- • O City of Broken Dreams • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jan 24 ’48
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • The View from the Balcony • Wallace Stegner • ss
- • No Place for You, My Love • Eudora Welty • ss, 1951
- • The State of Grace • Harold Brodkey • ss
- • The Magic Barrel • Bernard Malamud • ss The Paris Review Nov-Dec ’54
- • Good Country People • Flannery O’Connor • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’55
- • In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All • Grace Paley • ss
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time • Peter Taylor • nv The Kenyon Review Spr ’58
- • Welcome to the Monkey House • Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. • ss Playboy Jan ’68
- • In the Zoo • Jean Stafford • ss New Yorker, 1955
- • A Poetics for Bullies • Stanley Elkin • ss
- • Upon the Sweeping Flood • Joyce Carol Oates • ss The Southwest Review Spr ’63
- • The Indian Uprising • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker Mar 6 ’65
- • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country • William Gass • nv New American Review #1 ’67
- • A Solo Song: For Doc • James Alan McPherson • ss
- • The Babysitter • Robert Coover • ss
- • City Boy • Leonard Michaels • ss
- • White Rat • Gayl Jones • ss
- • Are These Actual Miles? • Raymond Carver • ss
- • Train • Joy Williams • ss
- • Fugue in A Minor • William Kotzwinkle • ss
- • Here Come the Maples • John Updike • ss
- • Pretty Ice • Mary Robison • ss
- • Testimony of Pilot • Barry Hannah • ss
- • Greenwich Time • Ann Beattie • ss
- • Lechery • Jayne Anne Phillips • ss
- • Liars in Love • Richard Yates • ss
- • The Circling Hand • Jamaica Kincaid • ss New Yorker Nov 21 ’83
- • Territory • David Leavitt • ss New Yorker May 31 ’82
- • Bridging • Max Apple • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’84
- • Greasy Lake • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • The Rich Brother • Tobias Wolff • ss Vanity Fair, 1985
- • American Express • James Salter • ss Esquire Feb ’88
- • The Joy Luck Club • Amy Tan • ss Ladies Home Journal Mar ’89
- • The Fireman’s Wife • Richard Bausch • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’89
- • Hot Ice • Stuart Dybek • ss Antæus, 1984
- • You’re Ugly, Too • Lorrie Moore • ss New Yorker Jul 3 ’89
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- Modern Irish Short Stories ed. Ben Forkner & Anthony Burgess (Abacus 0349104859, Aug 2002, $13.95, 558pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- The KGB Bar Reader ed. Ken Foster (Morrow 0-688-16408-0, Sep ’98, $14.00, 321pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Ultimate Sports ed. Donald R. Gallo (Delacorte 0-385-32152-X, Nov ’95, $21.95, 334pp, hc)
- Visions ed. Donald R. Gallo (Dell 0-440-20208-6, Nov ’88, $3.25, 228pp, pb); Reprint (Delacorte 1987).
- The Forms of Fiction ed. John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap (Random House, 1962, hc)
- • Forward • John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap • fw
- • Introduction: Reading Fiction • John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap • in
- • SHORT FORMS
- • Form in its Relationship to Meaning • John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap • ar
- • The Modern Writer’s Use of the Sketch, Fable, Yarn, and Tale • John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap • ar
- • The Witness • Katherine Ann Porter • ss
- • After the Storm • Ernest Hemingway • ss Cosmopolitan May ’32
- • The Unicorn in the Garden • James Thurber • vi New Yorker Oct 21 ’39
- • Wakefield • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Jun, 1835
- • A Country Doctor • Franz Kafka • ss
- • Baker’s Bluejay Yarn • Mark Twain • ex, 1880
- • Death in the Woods • Sherwood Anderson • ss The American Mercury Sep ’26
- • Spotted Horses • William Faulkner • ss Scribner’s Jun ’31
- • Ligeia • Edgar Allan Poe • ss American Museum Sep, 1838
- • Sorrow-Acre • Isak Dinesen • ss
- • The Gentleman from San Francisco • Ivan Bunin • ss The Dial Jan ’22
- • SHORT FORMS
- • Short Fiction for Study • John Gardner & Lennis Dunlap • ar
- • The Peasant Marey • Fyodor Dostoevski • ss
- • Three Deaths • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • The Piece of String • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • A Trifling Occurrence • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Sisters • James Joyce • ss Irish Homestead Aug 13 ’04
- • The Fly • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Nation Mar 18 ’22
- • War • Luigi Pirandello • ss
- • The Story of My Dovecot • Isaac Babel • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • Two Lovely Beasts • Liam O’Flaherty • ss
- • The Fancy Woman • Peter Taylor • nv The Southern Review Sum ’41
- • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- • LONGER FORMS
- • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- • The Secret Sharer • Joseph Conrad • nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
- • Of This Time, of That Place • Lionel Trilling • ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb ’43
- • The Jolly Corner • Henry James • nv The English Review Dec ’08
- • The Fox • D. H. Lawrence • ss
- • Benito Cereno • Herman Melville • na
- • Death in Venice • Thomas Mann • ss
- The Best American Short Stories 1982 ed. John Gardner & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1982, tp)
- The Thing About Second Chances Is... ed. Robert N. Georgalas (Polyphony Press 0967310911, Dec 2000, $19.95, 368pp, tp)
- Adventure ed. James Gibson (London: J. Murray 0719536626, 1980, 122pp, pb); The short story series.
- A Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One? ed. Fiona Giles (Indigo 0-575-40165-6, Feb ’98 [Apr ’98], £6.99, 276pp, tp, cover by Gary Day-Ellison); Reprint (Villard 1997) associational anthology of responses - fiction, factual, and fantastic - to the posed question. Contributors include Poppy Brite, Pat Califia, and Jane Yolen. [First U.K. edition]
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