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Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Sixth Edition ed. R. V. Cassill & Richard Bausch (W. W. Norton & Co. 0-393-97508-8, 2000, $51.15, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. Preface · [Misc.] · pr Preface to the Sixth Edition · [Misc.] · pr Talking about Fiction · [Misc.] · ar Character and Setting · [Misc.] · ar Action, Plot, and Complication · [Misc.] · ar Point of View · [Misc.] · ar Indirection · [Misc.] · ar The Part and the Whole · [Misc.] · ar Coherence · [Misc.] · ar General Questions · [Misc.] · ms I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set Nov 1919 Death by Landscape · Margaret Atwood · ss Saturday Night 1989 Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957 Gorilla, My Love · Toni Cade Bambara · ss The Littoral Zone · Andrea Barrett · ss Me and Miss Mandible · Donald Barthelme · ss The Disappeared · Charles Baxter · ss Michigan Quarterly Review 1990 Snow · Ann Beattie · ss Witness · Madison Smartt Bell · ss Harper’s Jan 1990 Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? · Gina Berriault · ss 1997 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890 Silver Water · Amy Bloom · ss Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 1939] · Jorge Luis Borges · ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson 1962 The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made” Pagan Night · Kate Braverman · ss The Gentleman from San Francisco · Ivan Bunin · ss The Dial Jan 1922 on “The Gentleman from San Francisco” · Gina Berriault · ar Bread · Frederick Busch · ss Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep 1981 The Rationing of Love · R. V. Cassill · ss Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905 on “Paul’s Case” · Andrea Barrett · ar The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947 The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss Gusev · Anton Chekhov · ss on “Gusev” · Richard Bausch · ar The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue Dec 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Clemens · ss 1867 Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Feb 1899 (+2) on “Heart of Darkness” · Barry Hannah · ar The Babysitter · Robert Coover · ss A Continuity of Parks [1956] · Julio Cortázar · vi End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House 1967 The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun 1897 on “The Open Boat” · Allan Gurganus · ar The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Nov 26 1898 Open Winter · H. L. Davis · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 6 1939 Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · ss on “Sorrow-Acre” · Tobias Wolf · ar Public Appearances · Susan Dodd · ss The Intruder · Andre Dubus · ss We Didn’t · Stuart Dybek · ss Antæus Spr 1993 King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Matchimanito · Louise Erdrich · ss Atlantic Monthly Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Jun 1939 The Bear · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 9 1942 Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones, Penguin Books Canada 1988 Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931 Great Falls · Richard Ford · ss Esquire 1987 The Road from Colonus · E. M. Forster · ss The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1911 A New England Nun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss 1891 Bernadette · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss Playboy Nov 1971 Wounded Soldier · George Garrett · ss on “Wounded Soldier” · Madison Smartt Bell · ar The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892 A Soldier’s Embrace · Nadine Gordimer · ss Harper’s Jan 1976 Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt · William Goyen · ss Ghost and Flesh, Random House 1952 on “Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt” · George Garrett · ar Nativity, Caucasian · Allan Gurganus · ss Harper’s Nov 1990 Testimony of Pilot · Barry Hannah · ss Wedding Night · Tom Hawkins · ss Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr 1835 The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer Mar 1843 Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition Aug 1927 on “Hills Like White Elephants” · Frederick Busch · ar In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried · Amy Hempel · ss The Conscience of the Court · Zora Neale Hurston · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 18 1950 The Witch · Shirley Jackson · ss The Lottery, Farrar Strauss 1949 Greville Fane · Henry James · ss The Illustrated London News Sep 17 1892 (+1) Passion · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · ss Moving Pictures · Charles Johnson · ss New American Review Sep 1985 A New Man · Edward P. Jones · ss The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker Dec 2 1991 Araby · James Joyce · ss A Little Cloud · James Joyce · ss The Smart Set May 1915 The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners, London: Cape 1914 The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka · nv 1937; Weisse Blätter Oct ’15. A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · ss The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom Rickshaw, Allahabad: Wheeler 1888 Jewel of the Moon · William Kotzwinkle · ss Jewel of the Moon, Putnam 1985 My Life as a Mollusk · Patricia Landers · ss The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review Apr 1922 The Coggios · Sharyn Layfield · ss Gravity · David Leavitt · ss The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday 1973 To Room Nineteen · Doris Lessing · nv Brief Lives in California · John L’Heureux · ss Fiction v6 #2 1980 My Father’s Chinese Wives · Sandra Tsing Loh · ss The Chevigny Man · Robie Macauley · ss The Kenyon Review 1956 Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary Dec 1955 Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · ss Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss Bliss, and Other Stories, Constable 1920 Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker Oct 20 1980 Boule de Suif · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Thistles in Sweden · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker Jun 21 1976 on “The Thistles in Sweden” · Charles Baxter · ar Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly 1853 The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988 on “The Management of Grief” · Richard Ford · ar Royal Beatings · Alice Munro · ss 1977 Prue · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker Mar 30 1981 Signs and Symbols · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The New Yorker May 15 1948 The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien · Hua-Ling Nieh · ss How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again · Joyce Carol Oates · ss TriQuarterly Spr 1969 The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug 1986 A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon 1953 on “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Lee Smith · ar Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19, NAL 1961 Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss on “Guests of the Nation” · Edward P. Jones · ar Tell Me a Riddle · Tillie Olsen · nv New World Writing #16, NAL 1960 War · Luigi Pirandello · ss The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep 1839 The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844 Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Fall · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review Spr 1958 Nadine at 35: A Synopsis · Jo Sapp · ss The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire Jan 1941 Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Intensive Care · Lee Smith · ss In the Zoo · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker 1955 on “In the Zoo” · R. V. Cassill · ar The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Oct 1937 Rules of the Game · Amy Tan · ss Seventeen Nov 1986 A Spinster’s Tale · Peter Taylor · nv The Southern Review Aut 1940 on “A Spinster’s Tale” · Ann Beattie · ar The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Mar 18 1939 The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jul 22 1961 The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Apr 1973 Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · ss 1931 Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 1941 A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss Atlantic Monthly 1941 on “A Worn Path” · Susan Dodd · ar The Man Who Loved Levittown · W. D. Wetherell · ss Atlantic Monthly Oct 1979 The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec 1933 In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37 1980 Kew Gardens · Virginia Woolf · ss May 12 1919 The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss Writing Papers about Fiction · Richard Bausch · ar When You Write about Fiction · R. V. Cassill · ar Writing Fiction · R. V. Cassill · ar Writers on Writing · R. V. Cassill · ar Why Do You Write? · Margaret Atwood · ar What Is It I Think I’m Doing Anyhow? · Toni Cade Bambara · ar On Writing · Raymond Carver · ar What Happened · John Cheever · ar Selected Letters · Anton Chekhov · lt A Familiar Preface · Joseph Conrad · ar An Interview · Ralph Ellison · iv Becoming a Writer · Gail Godwin · ar An Interview · Ernest Hemingway · iv The Art of Fiction · Henry James · ar Longman’s Magazine Sep 1884 Why the Novel Matters · D. H. Lawrence · ar An Interview · Doris Lessing · iv The Novel · Guy de Maupassant · ar A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman · Bharati Mukherjee · ar What Is Real? · Alice Munro · ar The Nature and Aim of Fiction · Flannery O’Connor · ar Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · br [Nathaniel Hawthorne] An Interview · Katherine Anne Porter · iv An Interview · James Thurber · iv What Is Art? · Leo Tolstoy · ar An Interview · Eudora Welty · iv Glossary of Critical Terms · [Misc.] · ms Index of Titles · [Misc.] · ix

Texas Bound Book III: 22 Texas Stories ed. Kay Cattarulla (Southern Methodist University Press 0870744267, Apr 2001, $22.50, 240pp, hc) Preface · Kay Cattarulla · pr Foreword · John Graves · fw The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Jun 17 1974 Flat Creek Road · John Bennet · ss The New Yorker Nov 3 1986 The Convict · James Lee Burke · ss The Kenyon Review 1985 Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot · Robert Olen Butler · ss The New Yorker May 22 1995 Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss The West Texas Sprouting of Loman Happenstance · Matt Clark · ss Air Fish, ed. Joy Oestreicher & Richard Singer, Catseye Books 1993 Uncle Norvel Remembers Gandhi · Tom Doyal · ss Sick Day · Tom Doyal · ss The Prize · Dagoberto Gilb · ss I’m Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows · Dave Hickey · ss The Arabesque · Barbara Hudson · ss The King of Tears · Arturo Islas · ss The Accidental Trip to Jamaica · Carolyn Osborn · ss What the Thunder Said · Janet Peery · ss Kris/Crack/Kyle · Hermine Pinson · ss The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Old Folks Wish Them Well · Lisa Sandlin · ss Six White Horses · Annette Sanford · ss The Gift Horse’s Mouth · R. E. Smith · ss Angels Prostate Fall · Marshall Terry · ss Fishbone · Donna Trussell · ss On Tour with Max · Miles Wilson · ss Biographical Notes · [Misc.] · bg

Bennett Cerf’s Houseful of Laughter ed. Bennett Cerf (Random House, 1963, 182 + viii, hc) Illustrations throughout by Arnold Roth. [Todd Mason] vii · Foreword · Bennett Cerf · fw 3 · It All Started with Columbus · Richard Armour · ex; from It All Started with Columbus, humor. 18 · The Fifty-First Dragon · Heywood Broun · ss New York Tribune Apr 13 1919 28 · The Story of Chicken Little · Walt Kelly · cs 38 · The Little Girl and the Wolf · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker Jan 21 1939 40 · The Ransom of Red Chief · O. Henry · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 6 1907 53 · Riddle-de-Dee · Bennett Cerf · ms; riddles retold. 57 · How Beautiful with Mud · Hildegarde Dolson · ex; from We Shook the Family Tree, memoir. 66 · The Affair at 7, Rue de M— · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Bazaar Apr 1955 76 · Father Opens My Mail · Clarence Day · ex; from Life with Father, memoir. 83 · Child’s Play: A Selection of Anecdotes · Bennett Cerf · hu; from Try and Stop Me and other Cerf anecdote collections. 92 · How We Kept Mother’s Day · Stephen Leacock · vi 1930; from Laugh with Leacock. 97 · Your Boy and His Dog · Robert Benchley · es Liberty Jul 30 1932 101 · The Rich Sardine · Roger Price · ct; cartoons with explication. 107 · Tom’s Whitewash · Mark Twain · ex; from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 113 · Pay the Two Francs · Art Buchwald · hu 117 · Learning to Drive · Billy Rose · ex; from Wine, Women and Song. 120 · A Turn for the Verse _120 · The Purple Cow · Gelett Burgess · pm _120 · O I C · Anonymous · pm _121 · The Little Man Who Wasn’t There · Hughes Mearns · pm _121 · Miniature · Richard Armour · pm _122 · Infant Prodigy · Margaret Fishback · pm _122 · Note to a Persistent Pest · “Groucho” Marx · pm _123 · Habits of the Hippopotamus · Arthur Guiterman · pm _124 · How to Tell the Wild Animals · Carolyn Wells · pm _126 · Eletelephony · Laura E. Richards · pm _127 · Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing · Samuel Hoffenstein · pm _128 · Father William · Lewis Carroll · pm _129 · Song of the Pop-Bottlers · Morris Bishop · pm 130 · Six Poems by Ogden Nash _130 · Reflections on Babies · Ogden Nash · pm _130 · Song of the Open Road · Ogden Nash · pm The New Yorker Oct 15 1932 _130 · The Eel · Ogden Nash · pm _130 · The Lama · Ogden Nash · pm _131 · The Fly · Ogden Nash · pm _131 · The Termite · Ogden Nash · pm 132 · Little Willie Poems _132 · untitled · Charles H. Clark · pm _132 · six untitled short poems · Anonymous & Bennett Cerf, retold by · pm 133 · Two-Liners _133 · On the Antiquity of Fleas · Strickland Gillian · pm _133 · Maid’s Day Out · William Benét · pm _133 · untitled (“Last night at twelve I felt immense/But now I feel like thirty cents”) · George Ade · pm _134 · untitled · Richard Armour · pm _134 · four two-line untitled poems · Anonymous & Bennett Cerf, retold by · pm 134 · Out on a Limerick; from Out on a Limerick, edited by Bennett Cerf. _134 · twenty untitled limericks · Anonymous & Bennett Cerf, retold by · pm _135 · untitled limerick (“I wish my room had a floor;”...) · Gelett Burgess · pm _135 · untitled limerick (“There was an old man in a boat,”...) · Edward Lear · pm _135 · untitled limerick (“As a beauty I am not a star.”...) · Woodrow Wilson · pm; Wilson was only (mis?)quoting Anthony Euwer: http://www.limericks.org/pentatette/myths.htm _136 · untitled limerick (“I’d rather have fingers than toes;”...) · Gelett Burgess · pm _138 · untitled limerick (“When twins came, their father, Dan Dunn,”...) · Berton Braley · pm _139 · untitled limerick (“A tutor who tooted a flute”...) · Carolyn Wells · pm 140 · The Word Market · Norman Juster · ex; from The Phantom Tollbooth. 153 · The Night the Bed Fell · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Jul 8 1933 159 · The Face Is Familiar But— · Max Schulman · ex; from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, novel, Random House 1945. 172 · Practice Mission · Mac Hyman · ex; from No Time for Sergeants, novel, 1954.

Great Modern Short Stories ed. Bennett Cerf (Random House, 1942, 480pp, hc) Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Feb 1899 (+2) The Apple Tree · John Galsworthy · na Good Housekeeping Jan 1917 (+3) The Prussian Officer · D. H. Lawrence · nv The English Review Aug 1914, as “Honour and Arms” Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss 1922 The Letter · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International Apr 1924 The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Ernest Hemingway · nv Esquire Aug 1936 Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905 I’m a Fool · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial Feb 1922 Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty Mar 28 1925 Turnabout · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 5 1932 The Old Demon · Pearl Buck · ss Cosmopolitan Feb 1939 The Red Pony · John Steinbeck · na North American Review Nov 1933