Miscellaneous Anthologies Index

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American Short Stories (7th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Longman 0321080564, Dec 2001, $48.00, 704pp, tp) Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com. Section One (1820-1890): Romanticism and Realism The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book 1819 Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr 1835 The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer Mar 1843 The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Philadelphia United States Saturday Post Aug 19 1843 The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844 Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly 1853 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Langhorne Clemens · ss 1867 The Outcasts of Poker Flat · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Jan 1869 "Europe" · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Jun 1899 A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss 1886 The Passing of Grandison · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss Section Two (1890-1920): Maturation and Seasoning An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890 The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss 1898 At the ’Cadian Ball · Kate Chopin · ss The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss 1890 The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892 The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · William Sydney Porter · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1907 The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly Feb 13 1904 The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Nov 26 1898 Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905 To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 Paper Pills · Sherwood Anderson · ss A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week Mar 5 1917 Section Three (1920-1940): Modernist Voices The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec 1933 The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story Aug 1933 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Mar 18 1939 Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931 Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Jun 1939 Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition Aug 1927 The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Oct 1937 Thank You, Ma’m · Langston Hughes · ss 1958 Big Boy Leaves Home · Richard Wright · ss Section Four (1940-1980): Tradition and Innovation The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Aut 1939 The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Jul 18 1964 The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss The Paris Review Nov/Dec 1954 Samuel · Grace Paley · ss Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957 Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Sewanee Review Spr 1964 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday 1973 The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Jun 17 1974 Cartoon · Robert Coover · ss A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jul 22 1961 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fll 1966 A Girl’s Story · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Section Five (1980-present): Contemporary Diversity Boxes · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker Feb 24 1986 Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker Oct 20 1980 Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48 1980 The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug 1986 Gryphon · Charles Baxter · ss Epoch 1985 The Reach · Stephen King · ss Yankee Nov 1981, as “Do the Dead Sing?” The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists · Lydia Davis · ss De Rerum Natura · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss 1976 Cheers · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Pet Fly · Walter Mosley · nv The New Yorker Dec 13 1999 Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire Aug 1986 The Cariboo Café · Helena María Viramontes · ss 1985 Ciudad Juárez · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Birthmates · Gish Jen · ss This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire Jun 1993 This Blessed House · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss

Western Romances ed. Peggy Simson Curry (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1969, pb) [Western] Flower of the Mescalero · Eric Allen · vi Ranch Romances May #1 1954 Too Young, Too Far Away · Eric Allen · ss Ranch Romances Sep #1 1953 Run Out of Town · Todhunter Ballard · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 30 1950 Prisoners of the Snow · S. Omar Barker · ss The Progressive Farmer Feb 1962 The Wonderful Race at Rimrock · D. D. Beauchamp · ss Collier’s Aug 3 1945 The Bride Wore Spurs · Peggy Simson Curry · ss The American Magazine Oct 1953 Woman Trader · Hal G. Evarts · ss The American Magazine Feb 1951 Wilderness Gamble · Kenneth Fowler · ss The Toronto Star Weekly Jun 14 1947 Catalogue Woman · Barlow Meyers · ss Maclean’s May 1 1946 The Cache and the Convict · T. V. Olsen · ss Ranch Romances Sep #1 1956 Winchester Wedding · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Ranch Romances Jun 19 1953

God: Stories ed. C. Michael Curtis (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-92971-7, Dec ’98, $14.00, 400pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. Introduction · C. Michael Curtis · in Exodus · James Baldwin · ss Design · Richard Bausch · ss A New Life · Mary Ward Brown · ss Atlantic Monthly Mar 1991 A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv 1983 Satan: Hijacker of a Planet · Louise Erdrich · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1997 Redemption · John Gardner · ss Atlantic Monthly 1977 The Knife · Brendan Gill · ss The New Yorker Mar 16 1940 God’s Typhoon · John Hersey · ss Atlantic Monthly Jan 1988 The Question of Rain · William Hoffman · ss 1978 Grace · James Joyce · nv Idiots First · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary Dec 1961 The Retreat · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss Atlantic Monthly Jul 1982 Pictures of the Ice · Alice Munro · ss Atlantic Monthly Jan 1990 Parker’s Back · Flannery O’Connor · nv Esquire Apr 1965 Rosa · Cynthia Ozick · nv The New Yorker Mar 21 1983 The Pure in Heart · Peggy Payne · ss The Crescent Review 1986 The Rabbi in the Attic · Eileen Pollack · ss Roof Work · Joe Ashby Porter · ss Zeal · J. F. Powers · ss Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth · nv The New Yorker Mar 14 1959 A Christian Education · Elizabeth Spencer · ss Autumn Sunshine · William Trevor · nv The New Yorker Mar 10 1980 Made in Heaven · John Updike · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 1985 A Still Moment · Eudora Welty · ss The Wide Net, Harcourt 1943 The Missing Person · Tobias Wolff · ss Atlantic Monthly Feb 1983 Biographical Notes · [Misc.] · bg

The Sound of Two Lip Disks Clacking ed. Ali Dada, and the 40 Thieves (Chicago, IL: The Press of the Third Mind 0-666271-341-8, 1988, $5.00, 135pp, tp) [RB] 1 - 16 · The Paregoric Imperative · Bradley Lastname · ss * 17 - 19 · Frisco Speen · G. Sutton Breiding · pm * 20 - 52 · The Black Hand of the Raj · Patrick McGrath · ss Blood and Water, Simon & Schuster 1988 54 - 59 · Rimbaud’s Parade: A New Translation · Brian Kuhr · ss * 60 - 88 · Excerpt from The Trisexual · Gaston N. Price · ex * 89 - 95 · Enjambment · Anon. · pm * 96 -100 · The La Brie Cheese Pits · Bradley Lastname · ss * 101 -111 · Plagues or Prosperity: Challenge to Management · Crad Kilodney · ss * 112 -114 · The Ides of March · Jonathan Levant · pm * 115 -135 · Letters from a Brazilian Ma(n)son · Anon. · ss *

The Short Story: Plot Thickens ed. Arthur Daigon & Mimi Schmitt (Prentice-Hall 0-13-809764-X, 1977, 186pp, tp) There is an Activities page after each story. 1 · Beginnings and Endings 2 · The Father · Björnstjerne Björnson · ss Union Jack Aug 24 1882 6 · Thank You, M’am · Langston Hughes · ss 1958 10 · The Unuttered Warning · Eric Bengston · ss 14 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953 20 · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel García Márquez · ss Playboy Nov 1971 27 · Yesterdays 28 · 1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel · Richard Brautigan · ss 32 · A Visit to Grandmother · William Melvin Kelley · ss 39 · How Grandpa Came Into the Money · Else Zantnev · ss 42 · Ancient Gentility · William Carlos Williams · ss 44 · Time in Thy Flight · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Universe Jun/Jul 1953 50 · Live and Learn 51 · Señor Payroll · William E. Barrett · ss The Southwest Review Aut 1943 55 · Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Knickerbocker Jan 1837, as “The Fountain of Youth” 63 · Coyote 13 · Arturo Souto Alabarce; trans. by Harriet de Onis · ss 67 · The Richer, the Poorer · Dorothy West · ss 71 · Our Best and Our Worst 72 · Epitaph for a Heel · William Fay · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 20 1962 80 · The Apple Tree · Katherine Mansfield · ss Woman’s Home Companion 84 · The Enemy · Pearl Buck · ss Harper’s 1943 94 · Four Men and a Box · Leslie Gordon Barnard · ss This Week 1947 99 · Insiders and Outsiders 100 · The Lost Soul · Ben Hecht · ss 104 · The Walls [People] · Zenna Henderson · ss Holding Wonder, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1971 111 · Give Us This Day · Alice Reid · ss 114 · Caged · Lloyd Eric Reeve · ss 117 · Zoo · Edward D. Hoch · vi Fantastic Universe Jun 1958 120 · Love Me/Love Me Not 121 · The Lover and His Lass · James Thurber · ss 123 · The Wooing of Ariadne · Harry Mark Petrakis · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 20 1960 133 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The Four Million, Doubleday 1906 137 · Feels Like Spring · Milton Kaplan · ss 142 · Out of This World 143 · The Boy Who Drew Cats · Lafcadio Hearn · ss 1898 146 · Tularecito · John Steinbeck · ss 153 · Where Angels Fear · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown Mar 1939 159 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 164 · Tomorrows 165 · The Business As Usual · Mack Reynolds · vi F&SF Jun 1952 168 · The Wheel · John Wyndham · ss Startling Stories Jan 1952 174 · Virtuoso · Herbert Goldstone · ss F&SF Feb 1953 179 · Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction Jun 1958, as “But Who Can Replace a Man?”

Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures ed. Edwidge Danticat (Beacon Press 0-807-06244-8, Oct 2000, $28.50, 304pp, hc) Contents from Amazon.com. introduction · Edwidge Danticat · ss No Countries but the Distance of the World · Nicholas Samaras · ss The Toughest Indian in the World · Sherman Alexie · ss The New Yorker Jun 21 1999 Rope Burn · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · ss Pissarro at Dusk · Derek Walcott · ss Planting Sticks and Grinding Yucca: On Being a Translated Writer · Julia Alvarez · ar Zoetrope: All-Story Win 1999 From Senoritas in Love · Jaime Manrique · ss Pet Fly · Walter Mosley · nv The New Yorker Dec 13 1999 The Volunteers · Chang-Rae Lee · ss The New Yorker Jun 21 1999 Ten Thousand in the Round · Lois-Ann Yamanaka · ss My Grandmother’s Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head · Robert Antoni · ss Family Album · Diane Thiel · ss A Son in Shadow · Fred D’Aguiar · ss Charisma: A Fiction · Ai · ss Precious and Her Hair · Ifeona Fulani · ss The End of Empire · Pico Iyer · ss Three Keys · Lidia Torres · ss Standing at the Crossroads · Bryant Keith Alexander · ss Speak · Aimee Nezhukumatathil · ss Death of the Cowboy · Larry McMurtry · ss A Ride to the Wedding · Phebus Etienne · ss Fathering Words · E. Ethelbert Miller · ss My Middle Kingdom · Adrienne Su · ss Oath Taking Opal · Palmer Adissa · ss Walking · Kate Krautkramer · ss Suffering · Kyoko Mori · ss Contributors · [Misc.] · bg Publications · [Misc.] · ms

Daughters Of Eve ed. T. A. Dardis (Berkley Books G-40, 1956, 35¢, 186pp, pb, cover by Maguire) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. 5 · Dottie Makes an Honest Woman of Herself · Mary McCarthy · ss The Partisan Review Jan/Feb 1954 24 · Elly · William Faulkner · ss Story Feb 1934 39 · The Snake · John Steinbeck · ss The Monterey Beacon Jun 22 1935 49 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1939 63 · The Unfortunate Lover · Alberto Moravia; trans. by Bernard Wall · nv Modern Italian Short Stories, ed. Marc Slonim, Simon & Schuter 1954 90 · Sounds of Earth · Edmund Schiddel · ss 98 · Once · D. H. Lawrence · ss Love Among the Haystacks, Viking 1933 108 · Torch Song · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Oct 4 1947 125 · The Kimono · H. E. Bates · nv Missing from Their Homes, ed. Anon., Hutchinson 1936 142 · Neil MacAdam · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Ah, King, Heinemann 1933

Nude Croquet ed. Thomas A. Dardis (Berkley Books G-97, 1958, 35¢, 155pp, pb, cover by Maguire) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. 5 · Nude Croquet · Leslie A. Fiedler · nv Esquire Sep 1957 40 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker Nov 20 1954 67 · The Third Partner · Morris Philipson · ss New Directions Annual #16 1957 75 · With Men It’s Different · Edward Newhouse · ss The New Yorker Oct 4 1941 80 · The Force of Circumstance · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International Jan 1924 107 · Bitter Honeymoon · Alberto Moravia; trans. by Frances Frenaye · nv The Partisan Review Nov/Dec 1952, as “Sunny Honeymoon” 134 · (The) Golden Land · William Faulkner · ss The American Mercury May 1935

This Is My Body ed. Thomas A. Dardis (Berkley Books G-68, 1957, 35¢, 188pp, pb, cover by Maguire) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. 5 · Two Prostitutes · Alberto Moravia; trans. by Frances Frenaye · nv The Partisan Review May/Jun 1950 35 · Bessie Cotter · Wallace Smith · ex Crown 1934 59 · Dumb Kid · Jerome Weidman · ss College Humor Mar 1937 67 · In Port · Guy de Maupassant; trans. by Ernest Boyd · ss The Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 16, Knopf 1926 79 · Clyde · James T. Farrell · ss Calico Shoes, Vanguard 1934 99 · The Facts of Life · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan Apr 1939 125 · Two Legs for the Two of Us · James Jones · ss Esquire Sep 1951 137 · Sunday Is the Day You Rest · John Upton Terrell · na Coward-McCann 1939

The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, the Best of 1999 ed. Larry Dark (Doubleday 0-385-49358-4, Sep ’99, $11.95, 443pp, tp) Introduction · Larry Dark · in A Nurse’s Story · Peter Baida · ss The Gettysburg Review v13 #3 1998 Merry-Go-Sorry · Cary Holladay · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Spr/Sum 1998 Save the Reaper · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker Jun 22&29 1998 The Depressed Person · David Foster Wallace · ss Harper’s Jan 1998 Cataract · Pam Houston · ss Cutbank #50 1998 Sea Oak · George Saunders · nv The New Yorker Dec 28 1998-Jan 4 ’99 Interpreter of Maladies · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss AGNI Review #47 1998 Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree · Gerald Reilly · ss The Gettysburg Review v11 #3 1998 Mister Brother · Michael Cunningham · ss DoubleTake #14 1998 Moon · Chaim Potok · ss Image #19 1998 Burning · Robert Schirmer · ss Fiction v15 #1 1998 Watching Girls Play · W. D. Wetherell · ss Georgia Review v52 #2 1998 Afterbirth · Sheila Schwartz · ss Ploughshares v24 2&3 Son of the Wolfman · Michael Chabon · ss Harper’s Dec 1998 Miracle Boy · Pinckney Benedict · ss Esquire Dec 1998 The Underground Gardens · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The New Yorker May 25 1998 Fork Used in Eating Reverend Baker · Kiana Davenport · ss Story Spr 1998 Sign · Charlotte Forbes · ss New Orleans Review v24 #1 1998 A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga · Julia Whitty · ss Harper’s Jun 1998 The Mud Below · Annie Proulx · ss The New Yorker Jun 22 1998