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Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Irish American Women’s Fiction ed. Caledonia Kearns (Holt 0-805-05579-7, Nov ’97, $24.95, 304pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

· Foreword · Maureen Howard · fw
· Introduction · Caledonia Kearns · in
3 · Noel Coward and Mrs. Griffin · Ruth McKenney · ss, 1938
11 · C.Y.E. · Mary McCarthy · ss, 1944
21 · excerpt from The Parish and the Hill · Mary Doyle Curran · ex, 1948
35 · excerpt from Hour of Spring · Maureen Howard · ex, 1948
56 · excerpt from Bridgeport Bus · Maureen Howard · ex, 1965
69 · Life After Death · Elizabeth Cullinan · ss, 1976
86 · One of Them Gets Married · Jean McGarry · ss, 1985
97 · The Lover of Horses · Tess Gallagher · ss, 1986
111 · Nijinsky · Maura Stanton · ss, 1988
129 · Queen Wintergreen · Alice Fulton · ss, 1992
144 · excerpt from At Weddings and Wakes · Alice McDermott · ex, 1992
164 · Mary’s Departure · Kathleen Ford · ss, 1993
182 · My Father’s Boat · Mary McGarry Morris · ss, 1993
199 · My Father’s Alcoholism · Eileen Myles · ss, 1994
214 · excerpt from One True Thing · Anna Quindlen · ex, 1994
228 · Versus · Jennifer C. Cornell · ss, 1996
233 · Pork Chops · Eileen Fitzgerald · ss, 1996
251 · City Life · Mary Gordon · ss Ploughshares v22 #1 ’96
272 · Daily Affirmations · Erin McGraw · ss, 1996
294 · Famine Fever · Helena Mulkerns · ss, 1996
301 · Achill Ancestors and a Stranger · Maureen Brady · ss, 1997
314 · excerpt from The Map of Ireland · Stephanie Grant · ex, 1997
324 · The Other Woman · Valerie Sayers · ss, 1997
337 · How Ireland Lost the World Cup · Annie Callan · ss, 1997
351 · About the Authors · Misc. · bg
The Best American Short Stories 1998 ed. Garrison Keillor (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-87515-3, Oct ’98, $27.50, 352pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.

· Foreword · Garrison Keillor · fw
· Introduction · Garrison Keillor · in
· Appetites · Kathryn Chetkovich · ss Zyzzyva, 1997
· The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue · Poe Ballantine · ss The Sun, 1997
· Body Language · Diane Schoemperlen · ss Story Spr ’97
· Chance · Edith Pearlman · ss The Antioch Review, 1997
· Cosmopolitan · Akhil Sharma · ss Atlantic Monthly Jan ’97
· Elvis Has Left the Building · Carol Anshaw · ss Story Spr ’97
· Every Night for a Thousand Years: a Story of the Civil War · Chris Adrian · ss New Yorker Oct 6 ’97
· Flower Children · Maxine Swann · ss Ploughshares Fll ’97
· Glory Goes and Gets Some · Emily Carter · ss Open City, 1997
· The Half-Skinned Steer · E. Annie Proulx · ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’97
· Morphine · Doran Larson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1997
· Mr. Sweetly Indecent · Bliss Broyard · ss Ploughshares Fll ’97
· My Father on the Verge of Disgrace · John Updike · ss New Yorker Mar 10 ’97
· Penance · Matthew Crain · ss Harper’s May ’97
· People Like That Are the Only People Here · Lorrie Moore · ss New Yorker Jan 27 ’97
· Tea at the House · Meg Wolitzer · ss Ploughshares Fll ’97
· Unified Front · Antonya Nelson · ss The Midwesterner, 1997
· Wayne in Love · Padgett Powell · ss New England Review, 1997
· Welding with Children · Tim Gautreaux · ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’97
· Would You Know It Wasn’t Love · Hester Kaplan · ss Gulf Coast, 1997
· Contributors Notes · Misc. · bg
· 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1997 · Misc. · ms
· Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · Misc. · ms
An Introduction to Fiction ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia (Longman 0-321-01558-4, 1999, $50.00, 720pp, tp)

· 1. Reading a Story
· Fable and Tale
· The Appointment in Samarra · W. Somerset Maugham · ss
· Godfather Death · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss
· Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss
· Plot
· The Short Story
· A & P · John Updike · ss New Yorker Jul 22 ’61
· John Updike on Writing, Why Write? · John Updike · ar
· What’s the Plot
· 2. Point of View
· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum Apr ’30
· The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’81
· Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss, 1922
· Katherine Mansfield on Writing, Creating “Miss Brill” · Katherine Mansfield · ar
· How Point of View Shapes a Story
· Student Essay: Raymond Carver’s Use of First-Person Point of View in “Cathedra
· 3. Character
· The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
· Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss
· Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer; trans. by Saul Bellow · ss
· Isaac Bashevis Singer on Writing, “The Character of Gimpel” · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar
· How Character Creates Action
· 4. Setting
· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss, 1898
· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
· Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss
· A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss
· Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar
· How Time and Place Set a Story
· 5. Tone and Style
· A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Mar ’33
· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Jun ’39
· Irony
· The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss
· The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges · ss New Yorker Oct 23 ’71
· Ernest Hemingway on Writing, the Direct Style · Ernest Hemingway · ar
· Be Style Conscious
· 6. Theme
· The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
· The Parable of the Prodigal Son [from the King James Bible] · Luke 15:11-32 · ss
· Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss F&SF Oct ’61
· Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., on Writing, the Themes of Science Fiction · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ar
· Stating the Theme
· 7. Symbol
· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Oct ’37
· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
· Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing, Note on “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar
· Recognizing Symbols
· Student Essay
· An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” · Misc. · ms
· 8. Evaluating a Story
· Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss New Yorker Aug 21 ’89
· Ralph Lombreglia on Writing, Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar
· Know What You’re Judging
· 9. Reading Long Stories and Novels
· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review, 1957
· The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka · nv, 1937
· Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing “The Metamorphosis” · Franz Kafka · ar
· Leaving Things Out
· Student Essay
· Kafka’s Greatness
· 10. A Writer in Depth
· Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961
· A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
· Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Sewanee Review Spr ’64
· Flannery O’Connor on Writing, The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar
· Flannery O’Connor on Writing, The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader · Flannery O’Connor · ar
· How One Story Illuminates Another
· 11. Stories for Further Reading
· Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss
· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
· A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain · Robert Olen Butler · ss
· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May ’05
· The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss New Yorker Apr 10 ’54
· The Lady with a Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss
· The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss, 1894
· Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss
· Battle Royal [from The Invisible Man] · Ralph Ellison · ex New York: Random House, 1947
· 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss
· A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss New American Review #13 ’71
· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
· The Defeated · Nadine Gordimer · ss
· On the Road · Langston Hughes · ss Esquire Jan ’35
· Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss
· In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss
· Araby · James Joyce · ss
· Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · ss
· The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
· The Soong Sisters · Sky Lee · ss
· A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss
· Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss The Magic Barrel, Farrar, 1958
· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
· How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss
· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fll ’66
· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug ’86
· First Confession · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’39
· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss
· The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss
· No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Harper’s Aug ’85
· The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss New Yorker Nov 14 ’42
· A Visit of Charity · Eudora Welty · ss
· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
· 12. Writing About Literature
· Beginning
· Discovering and Planning
· Drafting and Revising
· The Form of Your Finished Paper
· Documenting Your Sources
· Reference Guide for Citations
· Keeping a Journal
· The Girl Writing Her English Paper · Robert Wallace · ss
· 13. Writing About a Story
· Explicating
· Student Essay (Explication)
· Analyzing
· Student Essay (Analysis)
· Student Card Report
· Comparing and Contrasting
· Suggestions for Writing
· 14. Writing and Researching on the Computer
· Writing and Revising
· Using Spell-Check Programs
· Researching on the World Wide Web
· Two Ways to Start Researching
· Plagiarism
· Literature Online
· 15. Critical Approaches to Literature
· Formalist Criticism
· The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar
· Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar
· On Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” · Robert Langbaum · ar
· Biographical Criticism
· The Relationship of Poet and Poem · Leslie Fiedler · ar
· Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar
· On Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” · Brett C. Millier · ar
· Historical Criticism
· Imagism · Hugh Kenner · ar
· Southern Sources of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” · Sally Fitzgerald · ar
· On Langston Hughes · Darryl Pinckney · ar
· Psychological Criticism
· The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar
· The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar
· Poetic Influence · Harold Bloom · ar
· Mythological Criticism
· Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar
· Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar
· Lucifer in Shakespeare’s Othello · Maud Bodkin · ar
· Sociological Criticism
· Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar
· Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar
· Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln · Alfred Kazin · ar
· Gender Criticism
· Toward a Feminist Poetics · Elaine Showalter · ar
· Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar
· The Freedom of Emily Dickinson · Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar · ar
· Reader-Response Criticism
· An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar
· “How Do We Make a Poem?” · Robert Scholes · ar
· Filling the Gaps in Hamlet · Joel Wingard · ar
· Deconstructionist Criticism
· The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar
· Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar
· On Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” · Geoffrey Hartman · ar
· Cultural Studies
· Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar
· What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar
· The Stance of Observation in William Blake’s “London” · Heather Glen · ar
25 And Under Fiction ed. Susan Ketchin & Neil Giordano (W.W. Norton & Company 0-393-31610-6, May ’97, $12.00, 227pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Robert Coles · in
· The Dog Lover · Jason Brown · ss
· Park Bench · Judy Budnitz · ss
· This Is Not a Joke Like Vietnam · Aaron Cohen · ss
· Naming the Baby · Lucy Hochman · ss
· Untitled · Adam Plantinga · ss
· Indian Summer Sunday · Creston Lea · ss
· Borges Rides the Cyclone · Dan O’Brien · ss
· Geese · Z Z Packer · ss
· Flamingo · Benjamin Peskoe · ss
· Manna Walking · Dawn Karima Pettigrew · ss
· Like a Crossing Guard · Howie Axelrod · ss
· Waiting Game · Marie Argeris · ss
· White Flight · Tim Vanech · ss
· Asylum · Patrick Yachimski · ss DoubleTake Fll ’95
· Animal Stories · Jason Brown · ss
· Contributors’ Notes · Misc. · bg
A Treasury of Short Stories ed. Bernardine Kielty (Simon and Schuster, 1947, 849pp, hc)

xi · Foreword · Bernardine Kielty · fw
· NINETEENTH CENTURY
· European
· 1
3 · Yermolaï and the Miller’s Wife · Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev · ss
12 · The Death of Ivan Ilyitch · Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoi · na
54 · A Day in the Country · Anton Pavlovich Chekhov · ss
· 2
60 · A Passion in the Desert · Honoré de Balzac · ss The Strand Feb, 1891
71 · A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv
94 · Two Little Soldiers · Guy de Maupassant · ss
100 · The Last Lesson · Alphonse Daudet · ss
· 3
109 · The Steadfast Tin Soldier · Hans Christian Andersen · ss, 1838
113 · Germelshausen · Friedrich Gerstäcker · ss, 1888
133 · The Saint Joseph’s Ass · Giovanni Verga · ss
· 4
142 · A Lodging for the Night · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Temple Bar Oct, 1877
175 · Quattrocentisteria · Maurice Hewlett · ss The Bibelot v2, 1896
170 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Aug, 1891
187 · Without Benefit of Clergy · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap, Macmillan, 1891
204 · The Tragedy of a Comic Song · Leonard Merrick · ss Metropolitan Magazine May ’07
212 · The Money Box · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Jul ’02
221 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Aug-Sep ’10
· American
251 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov, 1846
257 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Apr 14, 1889
263 · The Hiltons’ Holiday · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Century Sep, 1893
275 · The Griffin and the Minor Canon · Frank R. Stockton · ss St. Nicholas Magazine Oct, 1885
286 · The Pace of Youth · Stephen Crane · ss
294 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
307 · The Coming Out of Maggie · O. Henry · ss
313 · The Altar of the Dead · Henry James · na Terminations, Harper, 1895
339 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Jan ’10
· OF OUR TIME
· European
· 1
362 · Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · ss
· 2
386 · The Storyteller · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar Nov ’37
393 · The Old Hunter · Liam O’Flaherty · ss
400 · Sinners · Seán O’Faoláin · ss
· 3
408 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
420 · The Doll’s House · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Nation Feb 4 ’22
426 · Mackintosh · W. Somerset Maugham · nv
450 · Young Archimedes · Aldous Huxley · nv Little Mexican, Chatto & Windus, 1924
475 · Bella Fleace Gave a Party · Evelyn Waugh · ss
483 · Joining Charles · Elizabeth Bowen · ss
493 · Beware of the Dog · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Oct ’44
· 4
502 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Edward Arnold, 1904
511 · The Story of a Panic · E. M. Forster · nv Independent Review Mar ’04
527 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 18 ’11
531 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins, Secker, 1911
577 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday, London: Hogarth Press, 1921
580 · Adam and Eve and Pinch Me · A. E. Coppard · ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, Golden Cockerell Press: Berkshire, 1921
589 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss Blue Book Nov ’07
599 · Bird of Prey · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine, New York: Viking, 1941
· American
· 1
606 · I’m a Fool · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial Feb ’22
615 · Some Like Them Cold · Ring Lardner · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 1 ’21
629 · Blood Pressure · Damon Runyon · ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 5 ’30
640 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
655 · Night Club · Katherine Brush · ss Harper’s Sep ’27
665 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman Jan ’28
· 2
670 · The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Ernest Hemingway · nv Esquire Aug ’36
687 · The Leader of the People · John Steinbeck · ss
699 · Price’s Always Open · John O’Hara · ss New Yorker, 1939
705 · The Tuxedos · Jerome Weidman · ss New Yorker, 1938
711 · Act of Faith · Irwin Shaw · ss New Yorker Feb 2 ’46
· 3
724 · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss New Yorker Mar 18 ’39
729 · Sacre du Printemps · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss Story Jun ’37
734 · Seventy Thousand Assyrians · William Saroyan · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Jan ’35
742 · O’Halloran’s Luck · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Country Gentleman May ’38
754 · Tom Whipple · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 25 ’39
769 · Silent Snow, Secret Snow · Conrad Aiken · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Oct ’32
· 4
783 · Sex Education · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Yale Review Win ’46
793 · Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review, 1939
· 5
804 · The Hound · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Aug ’31
814 · No Door · Thomas Wolfe · ss
823 · Saturday Afternoon · Erskine Caldwell · ss
829 · Almos’ a Man · Richard Wright · ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1940
839 · The Old Order · Katherine Anne Porter · ss

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