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- Best Lesbian Erotica 2000 ed. Joan Nestle & Tristan Taormino (Cleis Press 1573440930, Dec ’99, $14.95, 200pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- New American Short Stories 2 ed. Gloria Norris (NAL, 1989, $9.95, 375pp, tp)
- Western Roundup ed. Nelson Nye (Macmillan, 1961, hc); Anthology by members of the Western Writers of America.
- The Best American Short Stories 1979 ed. Joyce Carol Oates & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1979, tp)
- xi • Introduction • Joyce Carol Oates • in
- 1 • A Silver Dish • Saul Bellow • nv New Yorker Sep 25 ’78
- 28 • An Exile in the East • Flannery O’Connor • ss South Carolina Review Nov ’78
- 39 • Home and Native Land • Seán Virgo • ss Malahat Review, 1978
- 44 • A Short Walk into Afternoon • Kaatje Hurlbut • ss The Southwest Review, 1978
- 56 • Shadrach • William Styron • nv Esquire, 1978
- 79 • The Wedding Week • Rosellen Brown • ss Boston University Journal, 1978
- 84 • A Party in Miami Beach • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss Playboy Jun ’78
- 97 • The Quail • Rolf Yngve • ss Quarterly West, 1978
- 102 • Some Manhattan in New England • Peter LaSalle • ss Georgia Review, 1978
- 115 • Plaisir d’Amour • Lynne Sharon Schwartz • ss The Ontario Review, 1978
- 131 • Falling Off the Scaffold • Lyn Coffin • ss Michigan Quarterly Review Win ’78
- 150 • Spelling • Alice Munro • ss Weekend Magazine, 1978
- 157 • Seasons • Ruth McLaughlin • ss California Quarterly, 1978
- 167 • Living Alone • Robley Wilson, Jr. • ss Fiction International, 1978
- 172 • The Middle Place • Mary Hedin • ss The Southwest Review, 1978
- 184 • The Quarterback Speaks to His God • Herbert Wilner • nv Esquire, 1978
- 206 • Trip in a Summer Dress • Annette Sanford • ss Prairie Schooner, 1978
- 214 • The Eye • Paul Bowles • ss The Missouri Review, 1978
- 222 • Paper Covers Rock • Jean Thompson • ss Mademoiselle, 1978
- 234 • The Missing Person • Maxine Kumin • ss TriQuarterly, 1978
- 243 • Finisterre • Louis D. Rubin, Jr. • nv The Southern Review, 1978
- 270 • A Lingering Death • Silvia Tennenbaum • ss Massachusetts Review, 1978
- 284 • Home Is the Hero • Bernard Malamud • nv Atlantic Monthly, 1978
- 312 • The New Music • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker, 1978
- 324 • Something That Happened • Jayne Anne Phillips • ss Gallimaufry, 1978
- The Oxford Book of American Short Stories ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Oxford University Press 0-195-09262-7, Sep ’94, $18.95, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Rip Van Winkle • Washington Irving • nv The Sketch Book, 1819
- • The Wives of the Dead • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss
- • The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids • Herman Melville • ss, 1855
- • The Tell-Tale Heart • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Pioneer Jan, 1843
- • The Ghost in the Mill • Harriet Beecher Stowe • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun, 1870
- • Cannibalism in the Cars • Mark Twain • ss The Broadway Nov, 1868
- • The Storm • Kate Chopin • ss, 1898
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Middle Years • Henry James • ss Scribner’s May, 1893
- • In a Far Country • Jack London • ss Overland Monthly Jun, 1899
- • The Little Regiment • Stephen Crane • nv McClure’s Jun, 1896
- • A Journey • Edith Wharton • ss Greater Inclination, Scribner, 1899
- • A Death in the Desert • Willa Cather • ss Scribner’s Jan ’03
- • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place • Ernest Hemingway • ss Scribner’s Mar ’33
- • An Alcoholic Case • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Esquire Feb ’37
- • The Girl with the Pimply Face • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Jun ’34
- • He • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • Red-Headed Baby • Langston Hughes • ss
- • A Late Encounter with the Enemy • Flannery O’Connor • ss
- • Sonny’s Blues • James Baldwin • nv The Partisan Review, 1957
- • There Will Come Soft Rains • Ray Bradbury • ss Colliers May 6 ’50
- • Where Is the Voice Coming From? • Eudora Welty • ss
- • The Lecture [“The Lecture of Cockadoodledoo”] • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss Playboy Dec ’67
- • My Son the Murderer • Bernard Malamud • ss Esquire Nov ’68
- • Something to Remember Me By • Saul Bellow • ss Esquire Jul ’90
- • The Death of Justina • John Cheever • ss Esquire
- • Texts • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss American Short Fiction, 1990
- • The Persistence of Desire • John Updike • ss
- • Are These Actual Miles? • Raymond Carver • ss
- • Heat • Joyce Carol Oates • ss The Paris Review #110 ’89
- Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers ed. Joyce Carol Oates (W. W. Norton 0-393-97176-7, Jan ’98, $37.65, 750pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Introduction: Why We Write, Why We Read • Joyce Carol Oates • in
- • I. MINIATURE NARRATIVES
- • The Student • Anton Chekhov • ss
- • The Sirens • Franz Kafka • ss
- • The Use of Force • William Carlos Williams • ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec ’33
- • The Wind Blows • Katherine Mansfield • ss
- • Father’s Last Escape • Bruno Schulz • ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, 1937
- • I Used to Live Here Once • Jean Rhys • vi Sleep It Off, Lady, 1976
- • The House of the Crime • Alberto Moravia • ss
- • The Supper • Tadeusz Borowski • ss
- • Cities & the Dead • Italo Calvino • ss
- • Continuous Cities • Italo Calvino • ss
- • Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? • Nadine Gordimer • ss
- • The Turtle Overnight • James Wright • ss
- • Regret for a Spider Web • James Wright • ss
- • Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor • Phyllis Koestenbaum • ss
- • Distance from Loved Ones • James Tate • ss
- • Cockroaches in Autumn • Lydia Davis • ss
- • Coffee • Daniel Halpern • ss
- • Advice to Young Writers • Ron Padgett • ss
- • The Last Days of a Famous Mime • Peter Carey • ss
- • No One’s a Mystery • Elizabeth Tallent • ss Harper’s Aug ’85
- • Death of the Right Fielder • Stuart Dybek • ss
- • 14 May 1905 and 15 May 1905 • Alan Lightman • ss
- • La Cortada • Ruth Behar • ss
- • II. DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES
- • Lethal • Joyce Carol Oates • ss
- • Twirler • Jane Martin • ss
- • Testimonies • August Wilson • ss
- • Still Life • Emily Mann • ss
- • III. EARLY STORIES
- • The Judgment • Franz Kafka • ss, 1913
- • Indian Camp • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • The Burning Baby • Dylan Thomas • ss
- • Wunderkind • Carson McCullers • ss
- • Goodbye, My Brother • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Aug 25 ’51
- • Friends from Philadelphia • John Updike • ss
- • Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love • Lorrie Moore • ss
- • The Naked Lady • Madison Smartt Bell • ss The Crescent Review, 1983
- • The Sutton Pie Safe • Pinckney Benedict • ss
- • A Portrait of a Father • Jonathan Ames • ss
- • IV. THE ART AND THE CRAFT OF REVISION
- • The Sisters • James Joyce • ss Irish Homestead Aug 13 ’04
- • The Sisters (1914) • James Joyce • ss
- • V. RE-VISIONS: REAPPROPRIATIONS
- • Genesis 19 • Hebrew Bible • ss
- • The Cave • Alicia Ostriker • ss
- • The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira • Ovid • ss
- • Hercules, Deianira, Nessus • C. K. Williams • ss
- • The Story of Daedalus and Icarus • Ovid • ss
- • Fever • Harlan Ellison • vi Mind Fields, Morpheus International, 1994
- • Little Red - Cap • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss
- • The Werewolf • Angela Carter • vi The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales, London: Gollancz, 1979; revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.
- • Little Snow - White • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss
- • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • Anne Sexton • ss
- • VI. NARRATIVE IN OTHER MODES
- • Memoir, Diary, Personal Document
- • From the American Notebooks (1845) • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ex
- • From the Journal (May 1853-October 1857) • Henry David Thoreau • ex
- • From the Diary (February-March 1930) • Virginia Woolf • ex
- • Moments of Being • Virginia Woolf • nf
- • American Hunger • Richard Wright • nf
- • How It Feels to Be Colored Me • Zora Neale Hurston • nf
- • Borges and I • Jorge Luis Borges • ar
- • Those Who Must Jump • M. F. K. Fisher • nf
- • Passing Through Tangiers • Jack Kerouac • nf
- • No Name Woman • Maxine Hong Kingston • nf
- • Updike and I • John Updike • nf
- • The Dream • Mikal Gilmore • nf
- • Poems That Tell Stories
- • Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops • Homer • pm
- • The Story of Actaeon • Ovid • pm
- • Home Burial • Robert Frost • pm
- • Cherrylog Road • James Dickey • pm
- • The Car • Raymond Carver • pm
- • 400 - Meter Freestyle • Maxine Kumin • pm
- • Emergencies • Annie Dillard • pm
- • Cattle - Killing Winter, 1889-90 • Jana Harris • pm
- • Avalanche • Jana Harris • pm
- • Violence • Tom Wayman • pm
- • Sure Shot • Erika Funkhouser • pm
- • Testimony • Jon Davis • pm
- • After the Fact: To Ted Bundy • Robert Phillips • pm
- • Target Practice • Gary Soto • pm
- • The Levee • Gary Soto • pm
- • The Trees That Change Our Lives • Gary Soto • pm
- • The Wrestler’s Heart • Gary Soto • pm
- • When Jesus Walked • Carlos Cumpian • pm
- • Aisle of Dogs • Chase Twichell • pm
- • The Cleaving • Li-Young Lee • pm
- • The Flood • Joy Harjo • pm
- • VII. GENRE: HORROR
- • The Rats in the Walls • H. P. Lovecraft • ss Weird Tales Mar ’24
- • The Man in the Black Suit • Stephen King • ss New Yorker Oct 31 ’94
- • VIII. CLASSICS AND CONTEMPORARIES
- • “Tickets, Please!” • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Strand Apr ’19
- • Sun and Moon • Katherine Mansfield • ss
- • That Evening Sun • William Faulkner • ss The American Mercury Mar ’31
- • A Temple of the Holy Ghost • Flannery O’Connor • ss
- • Anxiety • Grace Paley • ss
- • The Balloon • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker Apr ’66
- • The Writer in the Family • E. L. Doctorow • ss Esquire Aug ’84
- • Why Don’t You Dance? • Raymond Carver • ss
- • The Man from Mars • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Jasmine • Bharati Mukherjee • ss
- • Sister • Tobias Wolff • ss Ploughshares, 1984
- • Communist • Richard Ford • ss Antæus, 1985
- • Any Sport • William Heyen • ss
- • Mourning • Robert Taylor, Jr. • ss
- • My Man Bovanne • Toni Cade Bambara • ss, 1971
- • Cutter • C. E. Poverman • ss
- • I Dated Jane Austen • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss
- • Dating Your Mom • Ian Frazier • ss
- • Aren’t You Happy for Me? • Richard Bausch • ss Harper’s Jun ’93
- • My Mother • Jamaica Kincaid • ss At the Bottom of the River, Plume, 1992
- • Fruit of the Month • Abby Frucht • ss
- • Damballah • John Edgar Wideman • ss
- • X and O • Jewel Mogan • ss
- • The Moths • Helena María Viramontes • ss
- • Young Lions • Edward P. Jones • ss
- • Gravity • David Leavitt • ss
- • Just Don’t Touch Anything • Russell Banks • ss GQ May ’93
- • In the American Society • Gish Jen • ss
- • The Pugilist at Rest • Thom Jones • ss New Yorker Dec 2 ’91
- • Family • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Omni Dec ’89
- • Afterword: The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop • Joyce Carol Oates • aw
- • Notes on Authors • Misc. Material • bg
- The Best British Short Stories of 1922 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard, 1922, 339pp, hc)
- 3 • Where Was Wych Street? • Stacy Aumonier • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 26 ’21; The Strand Nov ’21
- 20 • The Looking-Glass • J. D. Beresford • ss The Cornhill Magazine Aug ’21
- 44 • The Olive • Algernon Blackwood • ss Pearson’s Magazine Jul ’21
- 56 • Once a Hero • Harold Brighouse • ss Pan Jul ’21
- 73 • “The Pensioner” • William Caine • ss The Graphic Jul 2 ’21
- 78 • A Broadsheet Ballad • A. E. Coppard • ss The Dial Mar ’22
- 86 • The Christmas Present • Richmal Crompton • ss Truth Dec 21 ’21
- 91 • Seaton’s Aunt • Walter de la Mare • nv The London Mercury Apr ’22
- 123 • The Reaper • Dorothy Easton • ss The English Review May ’22
- 128 • The Song • May Edginton • ss Lloyd’s Story Magazine Jun ’22
- 141 • A Hedonist • John Galsworthy • ss The Century Jul ’21; Pears’ Annual Ch , r 1
- 149 • The Bat and Belfry Inn • Alan Graham • ss The Story-Teller May ’22
- 165 • The Lie • Holloway Horn • vi The Blue Magazine May ’22
- 168 • A Girl in It • Rowland Kenney • ss The New Age Dec 15 ’21
- 179 • The Backstairs of the Mind • Rosamond Langbridge • ss The Manchester Guardian Feb 7 ’22
- 184 • The Birth of a Masterpiece • Lucas Malet • ss The Story-Teller Jan ’22
- 196 • “Genius” • Elinor Mordaunt • ss The Century Nov ’21; Hutchinson’s Magazine Feb ’22
- 219 • The Devil to Pay • Max Pemberton • ss The Story-Teller Mar ’22
- 233 • Empty Arms • Roland Pertwee • ss Ladies Home Journal Mar ’22
- 247 • Lena Wrace • May Sinclair • ss The Dial Jul ’21
- 261 • The Dice Thrower • Sidney Southgate • ss The Colour Magazine Dec ’21
- 270 • The Stranger Woman • G. B. Stern • ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jan 28 ’22
- 285 • The Woman Who Sat Still • Parry Truscott • ss The Colour Magazine Nov ’21
- 293 • Major Wilbraham • Hugh Walpole • ss The Chicago Tribune Nov 13 ’21
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