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- The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories ed. Daniel Halpern (Viking 0-670-88761-7, Nov ’99, $40.00, 608pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Preface • Daniel Halpern • pr
- • A Gift from Somewhere • Ama Ata Aidoo • ss
- • The Keeper of the Virgins • Hanan Al-Shaykh • ss
- • Amor Divino • Julia Alvarez • ss
- • The Immortals • Martin Amis • ss
- • The Glass Tower • Reinaldo Arenas • ss
- • Wilderness Tips • Margaret Atwood • ss New Yorker Feb 18 ’91
- • Gorilla, My Love • Toni Cade Bambara • ss
- • My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories • Russell Banks • ss Vanity Fair, 1987
- • G-String • Nicola Barker • ss
- • Evermore • Julian Barnes • ss New Yorker Nov 13 ’95
- • Aren’t You Happy for Me? • Richard Bausch • ss Harper’s Jun ’93
- • In Amalfi • Ann Beattie • ss
- • Rara Avis • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • Mr. Green • Robert Olen Butler • ss
- • The Fat Man in History • Peter Carey • ss
- • The Courtship of Mr. Lyon • Angela Carter • ss Vogue (UK), 1979
- • Are These Actual Miles? • Raymond Carver • ss
- • The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff • Patrick Chamoiseau • ss
- • Dharma • Vikram Chandra • ss The Paris Review Spr ’94
- • Never Marry a Mexican • Sandra Cisneros • ss
- • The Prospect from the Silver Hills • Jim Crace • ss Continent, Heinemann, 1986
- • Night Women • Edwidge Danticat • ss
- • The House Behind • Lydia Davis • ss
- • All Because of the Mistake • Daniele del Giudice • ss
- • Ysrael • Junot Diaz • ss Story Aut ’95
- • Betrayal • Patricia Duncker • ss Sinister Wisdom #46 ’92
- • Reflections of Spring • Duong Thu Huong • ss
- • The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor • Deborah Eisenberg • ss New Yorker Dec 5 ’94
- • The Twenty-seventh Man • Nathan Englander • ss Story Sum ’98
- • The Parakeet • Victor Erofeyev • ss
- • Roberto Narrates • Peter Esterhazy • ss
- • My Father, the Englishman, and I • Nuruddin Farah • ss
- • Optimists • Richard Ford • ss New Yorker Mar 30 ’87
- • The Story of the Lizard Who Had the Habit of Dining on His Wives • Eduardo Galeano • ss
- • The Hammam • Herve Guibert • ss
- • Escort • Abdulrazak Gurnah • ss
- • Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet • Barry Hannah • ss
- • Portrait of the Avant-Garde • Peter Hooeg • ss
- • Moving House • Pawel Huelle • ss
- • A Family Supper • Kazuo Ishiguro • ss Esquire Mar ’90
- • Encounter • Roy Jacobsen • ss
- • The First Day • Edward P. Jones • ss
- • Remember Young Cecil • James Kelman • ss
- • Intimacy • Hanif Kureishi • ss New Yorker May 11 ’98
- • The Stump-Grubber • Torgny Lindgren • ss
- • Wish • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Aug 15 ’88
- • Everything in This Country Must • Colum McCann • ss
- • Pornography • Ian McEwan • ss The New Review, 1978
- • Behind the Blue Curtain • Steven Millhauser • ss The Barnum Museum, Poseidon, 1990
- • Willing • Lorrie Moore • ss New Yorker May 14 ’90
- • The Lifeguard • Mary Morris • ss
- • The Canebrake • Mohammed Mrabet • ss
- • The Management of Grief • Bharati Mukherjee • ss Fiction Network, 1988
- • Muradhan and Selvihan or The Tale of the Crystal Kiosk • Murathan Mungan • ss
- • The Elephant Vanishes • Haruki Murakami • ss New Yorker Nov 18 ’91
- • Mark of Satan • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Antæus Aut ’94
- • In the Shadow of War • Ben Okri • ss
- • Where the Jackals Howl • Amos Oz • ss
- • The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII • Victor Pelevin • ss The Blue Lantern, Harbord, 1996
- • Talking Dog • Francine Prose • ss The Yale Review Apr ’92
- • The Free Radio • Salman Rushdie • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’83
- • Africa Kills Her Sun • Ken Saro-Wiwa • ss
- • The Ring • Ingo Schulze • ss
- • Learning to Swim • Graham Swift • ss
- • A Riddle • Antonio Tabucchi • ss
- • Minutes of Glory • Ngugi Wa Thiong’o • ss
- • On the Golden Porch • Tatyana Tolstaya • ss
- • John-Jin • Rose Tremain • ss
- • Who, Me a Bum? • Luisa Valenzuela • ss
- • Cinnamon Skin • Edmund White • ss New Yorker Aug 21 ’95
- • You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town • Zoe Wicomb • ss
- • Doc’s Story • John Edgar Wideman • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • The Farm • Joy Williams • ss Antæus, 1982
- • Dirt Angel • Jeanne Wilmot • ss North American Review Mar ’85
- • The Green Man • Jeanette Winterson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’95
- • The Night in Question • Tobias Wolff • ss New Yorker Apr 22 ’96
- • The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes • Can Xue • ss
- • Helix • Banana Yoshimoto • ss
- • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin USA 0-140-07949-1, Aug ’89, $17.95, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Introduction • Daniel Halpern • in
- • The Sacrificial Egg • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • The Bound Man • Ilse Aichinger • ss The Bound Man and Other Stories, Secker & Warburg, 1955
- • Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality • Vasily Aksenov • ss
- • Hair Jewellery • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Everything • Ingeborg Bachmann • ss
- • Going to Meet the Man • James Baldwin • ss
- • The Child Screams and Looks Back at You • Russell Banks • ss Fiction Magazine, 1981
- • Cortes and Montezuma • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • Jacklighting • Ann Beattie • ss
- • First Love • Samuel Beckett • ss
- • Action Will Be Taken • Heinrich Böll • ss
- • Do Stay, Giraffe • Wolfgang Borchert • ss
- • The Aleph • Jorge Luis Borges • ss
- • This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen • Tadeusz Borowski • ss, 1967
- • Cowardice • Abdeslam Boulaich • ss
- • A Distant Episode • Paul Bowles • ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb ’47
- • Greasy Lake • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • Ceil • Harold Brodkey • ss New Yorker Sep 12 ’83
- • Seven Floors • Dino Buzzati • ss Catastrophe, Calder & Boyars, 1965
- • The Adventure of a Traveler • Italo Calvino • ss
- • The Adulterous Woman • Albert Camus • ss
- • Children on Their Birthdays • Truman Capote • ss
- • Fat • Raymond Carver • ss
- • The Country Husband • John Cheever • nv New Yorker Nov 20 ’54
- • Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl • Robert Coover • ss
- • Bestiary • Julio Cortázar • ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
- • The Haile Selassie Funeral Train • Guy Davenport • ss
- • The Cloak • Isak Dinesen • ss Ladies Home Journal May ’55
- • The Hunter • E. L. Doctorow • ss
- • I Look Out for Ed Wolfe • Stanley Elkin • ss Esquire
- • Communist • Richard Ford • ss Antæus, 1985
- • The Doll Queen [1969] • Carlos Fuentes • ss Antæus #13/14 ’74
- • The Chosen Husband • Mavis Gallant • ss
- • Order of Insects • William Gass • ss
- • The Mother • Natalia Ginzburg • ss
- • The Life of the Imagination • Nadine Gordimer • ss
- • Two Gentle People • Graham Greene • ss
- • Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale • Wolfgang Hildesheimer • ss
- • One Arm • Yasunari Kawabata • ss
- • Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead • Milan Kundera • ss
- • Gogol’s Wife • Tommaso Landolfi • ss, 1954
- • The Habit of Loving • Doris Lessing • ss
- • The Challenge • Mario Vargas Llosa • ss, 1979
- • The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish • Naguib Mahfouz • ss
- • The Last Mohican • Bernard Malamud • nv The Partisan Review Spr ’58
- • Eyes of a Blue Dog • Gabriel Garcia Marquez • ss New Yorker May 8 ’78
- • The Pilgrimage • William Maxwell • ss
- • First Love, Last Rites • Ian McEwan • ss
- • The Deal • Leonard Michaels • ss
- • Patriotism • Yukio Mishima • ss Esquire Apr ’66
- • Jewellery • Alberto Moravia • ss
- • Doctor Safi • Mohammed Mrabet • ss
- • Spring in Fialta • Vladimir Nabokov • ss Nine Stories, New Directions, 1947
- • Naga • R. K. Narayan • ss
- • The Tryst • Joyce Carol Oates • ss
- • Sister Imelda • Edna O’Brien • nv New Yorker Nov 9 ’81
- • The Artificial Nigger • Flannery O’Connor • ss
- • A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme • Frank O’Connor • ss
- • Nomad and Viper • Amos Oz • ss
- • The Suitcase • Cynthia Ozick • ss
- • The Contest • Grace Paley • ss
- • Suicides • Cesare Pavese • ss
- • The Saint • V. S. Pritchett • ss Horizon Apr ’40
- • Eventide • James Purdy • ss
- • The Replacement • Alain Robbe-Grillet • ss
- • Rain • Mercè Rodoreda • ss
- • In the Garden • Leon Rooke • ss
- • Talpa • Juan Rulfo • ss
- • XXII • Nathalie Sarraute • ss
- • Henne Fire • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss Playboy May ’68
- • Unguided Tour • Susan Sontag • ss
- • Children Are Bored on Sunday • Jean Stafford • ss New Yorker Feb 21 ’48
- • A Friend and Protector • Peter Taylor • ss
- • Death and the Maiden • Michel Tournier • ss
- • Beyond the Pale • William Trevor • ss New Yorker Aug 10 ’81
- • Separating • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 23 ’75
- • I’m Your Horse in the Night • Luisa Valenzuela • ss
- • No Place for You, My Love • Eudora Welty • ss, 1951
- • Five-Twenty • Patrick White • ss
- • Hunters in the Snow • Tobias Wolff • ss TriQuarterly #48 ’80
- • Big, Black, Good Man • Richard Wright • ss Esquire, 1957
- • The Best of Everything • Richard Yates • ss Charm, 1956
- • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- Sport ed. Graham Handley (London: J. Murray 0719536650, 1980, 122pp, pb); The short story series.
- O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 ed. Harry Hansen (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, 284+xvii, hc); Prize jury: Tess Slesinger, Clifton Fadiman, Joseph Henry Jackson. [TM]
- vii • Introduction • Harry Hansen • in
- 3 • The White Horses of Vienna • Kay Boyle • ss Harper’s Apr ’35
- 23 • The Home Place • Dorothy Thomas • nv Harper’s Jan ’35
- 57 • John the Six • Josephine W. Johnson • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’35
- 63 • The Brother’s House • Nelson Algren • ss Story, 1935
- 71 • The Professor’s Punch • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss The Delineator, 1935
- 87 • Leora’s Father • Katherine Hamill • ss Atlantic Monthly, 1935
- 103 • Silent Grow the Guns • MacKinlay Kantor • ss Redbook May ’35
- 125 • Little Elise • Dorothy McCleary • ss Story, 1935
- 141 • A Writer Interviews a Banker [“Not Without Propaganda”] • Louis Mamet • ss Anvil, 1935
- 153 • Country Doctor • Don Marquis • ss The American Magazine Mar ’35
- 171 • Jesus Knew • E. P. O’Donnell • ss Harper’s, 1935
- 189 • Lay Me Low! • Louis Paul • ss Forum and Century Feb ’35
- 205 • Water • Ross Santee • ss Colliers, 1935
- 211 • Five Ripe Pears • William Saroyan • ss The Yale Review Aut ’35
- 219 • “When Spring Brings Back...” • Edward Shenton • ss Scribner’s, 1935
- 229 • First Day • Richard Sherman • ss The American Magazine Jun ’35
- 237 • Long Distance • Upton Terrell • ss Frontier and Midland, 1935
- 259 • My Father Sits in the Dark • Jerome Weidman • ss Story, 1935
- 267 • Only the Dead Know Brooklyn • Thomas Wolfe • ss New Yorker Jun 15 ’35
- 277 • Appendix • Anon. • ms
- You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe ed. Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard (Harperperennial Library 0-060-98202-0, Oct ’94, $18.00, 640pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Introduction • Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard • in
- • Introduction • Annie Dillard • is
- • A Mother’s Tale • James Agee • nv Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’52
- • Introduction • Francine Prose • is
- • Guy de Maupassant • Isaac Babel • ss
- • Introduction • Kenneth A. McClane • is
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • Introduction • T. Coraghessan Boyle • is
- • The School • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker, 1974
- • Introduction • Oscar Hijuelos • is
- • The Aleph • Jorge Luis Borges • ss
- • Introduction • Joy Williams • is
- • A Day in the Open • Jane Bowles • ss
- • Introduction • John L’Heureux • is
- • A Distant Episode • Paul Bowles • ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb ’47
- • Introduction • John Hawkes • is
- • The Star Cafe • Mary Caponegro • ss
- • Introduction • Robert Coover • is
- • Reflections • Angela Carter • nv Fireworks, 1974
- • Introduction • Tobias Wolff • is
- • Cathedral • Raymond Carver • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
- • Introduction • Allan Gurganus • is
- • Goodbye, My Brother • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Aug 25 ’51
- • Introduction • Eudora Welty • is
- • Gooseberries • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • Introduction • John Irving • is
- • A Christmas Carol • Charles Dickens • na London: Chapman & Hall, 1843
- • Introduction • Amy Tan • is
- • Pie Dance • Molly Giles • ss
- • Introduction • Charles Baxter • is
- • Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases • Lars Gustafsson • ss
- • Introduction • Jane Smiley • is
- • The Interview • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • ss New Yorker
- • Introduction • Mary Gordon • is
- • The Dead • James Joyce • ss
- • Introduction • Joyce Carol Oates • is
- • In the Penal Colony • Franz Kafka • nv
- • Introduction • Stephanie Vaughn • is
- • Girl • Jamaica Kincaid • ss
- • Introduction • Julia Alvarez • is
- • The Smallest Woman in the World • Clarice Lispector • ss The Kenyon Review Sum ’64
- • Introduction • Deborah Eisenberg • is
- • The Daughters of the Late Colonel • Katherine Mansfield • ss
- • Introduction • David Leavitt • is
- • Labor Day Dinner • Alice Munro • ss New Yorker Sep 28 ’81
- • Introduction • Jim Shepard • is
- • Spring in Fialta • Vladimir Nabokov • ss Nine Stories, New Directions, 1947
- • Introduction • Bobbie Ann Mason • is
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Introduction • Sue Miller • is
- • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- • Introduction • Amy Hempel • is
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • Introduction • Janet Kauffman • is
- • Wants • Grace Paley • ss
- • Introduction • Tim O’Brien • is
- • In Dreams Begin Responsibilities • Delmore Schwartz • ss, 1937
- • Introduction • Louis Owens • is
- • The Man to Send Rain Clouds • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss
- • Introduction • Louise Erdrich • is
- • Helping • Robert Stone • ss New Yorker Jun 8 ’87
- • Introduction • Ron Hansen • is
- • Master and Man • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • Introduction • Lorrie Moore • is
- • Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car • John Updike • ss
- • Introduction • Edward P. Jones • is
- • The Flowers • Alice Walker • ss
- • Introduction • Russell Banks • is
- • No Place for You, My Love • Eudora Welty • ss, 1951
- • Introduction • Al Young • is
- • Paper Garden • Jerome Wilson • ss
- • About the Authors • Misc. Material • bg
- Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State ed. Gerald Haslam (University of Nevada Press 0-874-17325-6, Mar ’99, $20.00, 424pp, tp); Second revised edition. Contents from Amazon.com.
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