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The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context ed. Dana Gioia & R. S. Gwynn (Longman 0801331595, Dec 2000, $48.00, 1952pp, tp) Details from publisher’s catalog. About the Authors · [Misc.] · bg I. INTRODUCTION The Art of the Short Story II. ORIGINS OF THE SHORT STORY Myth Traditional, Roman Pygmalion and Galatea · Ovid · ss; from Ovid’s Metamorphosis as retold by Edith Hamilton. Traditional, African-American How the Snake Got Poison · Anon. · ss; collected by Zora Neale Hurston. Fable The North Wind and the Sun · Aesop · ss The Camel and His Friends (from the Panchatantra) · Bidpai · ss Parable Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss The Parable of the Prodigal Son [from the King James Bible] · Luke 15:11-32 · ss Folk Tale The Three Feathers · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss; from German Folk Tales. The Donkey [from The Thousand and One Nights] · Arabic · ss Legend St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio · Brother Ugolino Di Monte · ss The Careless Rabbi · Martin Buber · ss Novella or Nouvelle The Pot of Basil [from The Decameron] · Giovanni Boccaccio · ss The One-Eyed Servant and His Wife [from The Heptameron] · Margarite de Navarre · ss III. STORIES Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss Author’s Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture · Chinua Achebe · ar The Egg · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial Mar 1920, as “The Triumph of the Egg” Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss Masses Mar 1916 Author’s Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar The Prophecy · Anjana Appachana · ss Vegetable Love · Max Apple · ss Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss Humanist Sep/Oct 1987 Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss Author’s Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity · Margaret Atwood · ar Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957 Author’s Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer · James Baldwin · ar Time of Passage · J. G. Ballard · ss Science-Fantasy #63 1964 Night-Sea Journey · John Barth · ss Esquire Jun 1966 The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Mar 6 1965 Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890 Action Will Be Taken · Heinrich Böll · ss The Library of Babel · Jorge Luís Borges · ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson 1962 The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luís Borges · ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson 1962 The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges · ss The New Yorker Oct 23 1971 Author’s Perspective: Borges on Literature As Experience · Jorge Luís Borges · ar Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review Spr 1982 The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made” Preparation · Robert Olen Butler · ss Adam, One Afternoon · Italo Calvino · ss 1949 Author’s Perspective: Calvino on Myth Is the Hidden Part of Every Story · Italo Calvino · ar The Guest · Albert Camus · ss Atlantic Monthly Dec 1957 Author’s Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria · Albert Camus · ar Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss Author’s Perspective: Capote on the Technique of the Short Story · Truman Capote · ar The Loves of Lady Purple · Angela Carter · ss Fireworks 1974 Author’s Perspective: Carter on the Fairy Tale · Angela Carter · ar Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep 1981 A Small Good Thing · Raymond Carver · ss Ploughshares v8 #2&3 1981 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss Author’s Perspective: Carver on “Commonplace but Precise Language” · Raymond Carver · ar Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905 Author’s Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification · Willa Cather · ar Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · na Dime Detective Magazine Jan 1938 Author’s Perspective: Chandler on Crime Fiction · Raymond Chandler · ar Ancestors · Fred Chappell · ss The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Apr 10 1954 The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Jul 18 1964 Author’s Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories · John Cheever · ar The Lady with the Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss Misery · Anton Chekhov · ss An Upheaval · Anton Chekhov · ss Author’s Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and “The Center of Gravity” · Anton Chekhov · ar The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss 1898 The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue Dec 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953 The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Aug-Sep 1910 Author’s Perspective: Conrad on the Condition of Art · Joseph Conrad · ar Blow-Up · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House 1967 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun 1897 The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun 1897 Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · ss The Man Who Read a Book · Thomas Disch · ss The Hudson Review Spr 1994 Author’s Perspective: Disch on Science Fiction, Youth Culture, and the Future · Thomas Disch · ar The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Feb 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv 1983 Author’s Perspective: Dubus on Religious Fiction · Andre Dubus · ar A Party Down at the Square · Ralph Ellison · ss Esquire Jan 1997 Author’s Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction · Ralph Ellison · ar The Red Convertible · Louise Erdrich · ss Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Jun 1939 Red Leaves · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 25 1930 A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum Apr 1930 Author’s Perspective: Faulkner on “The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself” · William Faulkner · ar The Street-Sweeping Show · Feng Jicai · ss Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931 Author’s Perspective: Fitzgerald on from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ar A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv Author’s Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style · Gustave Flaubert · ar The Doll Queen [1969] · Carlos Fuentes · ss Antæus #13/14 1974 Author’s Perspective: Fuentes on Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future · Carlos Fuentes · ar 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss Artificial Roses · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss New American Review #13 1971 Died and Gone to Vegas · Tim Gautreaux · ss Atlantic Monthly Feb 1995 Look on the Bright Side · Dagoberto Gilb · ss The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892 The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · nv 1842 A Company of Laughing Faces · Nadine Gordimer · ss Author’s Perspective: Gordimer on How the Short Story Differs from the Novel · Nadine Gordimer · ar The Outcasts of Poker Flat · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Jan 1869 Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr 1835 The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer Mar 1843 Author’s Perspective: Hawthorne on the Public Failure of His Early Stories · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ar Big Two-Hearted River, Part I and Part II · Ernest Hemingway · ss This Quarter Spr 1925 Author’s Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence · Ernest Hemingway · ar The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The Trimmed Lamp, McClure 1907 The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story Aug 1933 Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Author’s Perspective: Hurston on What White Publishers Won’t Print · Zora Neale Hurston · ar A Family Supper · Kazuo Ishiguro · ss Esquire Mar 1990 The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker Jun 26 1948 The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black and White Apr 16 1892 Author’s Perspective: James on the Mirror of a Consciousness · Henry James · ar In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss 1886 Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners, London: Cape 1914 Eveline · James Joyce · ss Author’s Perspective: Joyce on Epiphanies · James Joyce · ar Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka · nv 1937 Author’s Perspective: Kafka on Discussing The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka · ar Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · ss "They" · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Aug 1904 Let the Old Dead Make Room · Milan Kundera · ss Odour of Chrysanthemums · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review Jun 1911 The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson 1926 The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review Apr 1922 Author’s Perspective: Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life · D. H. Lawrence · ar The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday 1973 Author’s Perspective: Le Guin: On “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss The Day Stalin Died · Doris Lessing · ss Love · Clarice Lispector · ss Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss The New Yorker Aug 21 1989 Author’s Perspective: Lombreglia on Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 A Little Incident · Lu Xun · ss Midnight Mass · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · ss 1963 Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary Dec 1955 Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss 1922 Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss Bliss, and Other Stories, Constable 1920 The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette Feb 4 1922 (+2) Author’s Perspective: Mansfield on “The Garden-Party” · Katherine Mansfield · ar Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker Oct 20 1980 The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss Mother Savage · Guy de Maupassant · ss Author’s Perspective: Maupassant: The Realist Method · Guy de Maupassant · ar Benito Cereno · Herman Melville · na Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review 1984 Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire Apr 1966 How to Become a Writer · Lorrie Moore · ss The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988 How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss Wild Swans · Alice Munro · ss Author’s Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories · Alice Munro · ar Cloud, Castle, Lake · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Atlantic Monthly Jun 1941 Trail of the Green Blazer · R. K. Narayan · ss In the Region of Ice · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1966 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fll 1966 Author’s Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics · Joyce Carol Oates · ar The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug 1986 Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun 1955 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 1964 Author’s Perspective: O’Connor: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss Tell Me a Riddle, Delacorte 1956 Author’s Perspective: Olsen: Women’s Silence · Tillie Olsen · ar A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13 1971 My Life with the Wave · Octavio Paz · ss Blind Girls · Jayne Anne Phillips · 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 The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer Jan 1843 Author’s Perspective: Poe: The Tale and Its Effect · Edgar Allan Poe · ar The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review Spr 1958 The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss Inspector Maigret Pursues [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; trans. by J. E. Malcolm · ss Argosy (UK) Jan 1962, as “The Man on the Run”; translator uncredited here, translated from the French “L’Homme dans la rue” in Les petits cochons sans queue (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1950). Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Author’s Perspective: Singer on the Character of Gimpel · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar Bang-Bang You’re Dead · Muriel Spark · nv The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Oct 1937 The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1 1891 No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Harper’s Aug 1985 A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss Author’s Perspective: Tan: Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Mar 18 1939 The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na The Three Hermits · Leo Tolstoy · ss Esther · Jean Toomer · ss The Distant Past · William Trevor · ss The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss 1867 Author’s Perspective: Twain on the Lazy Method of Writing · Mark Twain · ar Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jun 23 1975 Author’s Perspective: Updike: Why Write? · John Updike · ar Going to Russia · Guy Vanderhaeghe · ss Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Apr 1973 Kindred Spirits · Alice Walker · ss Esquire Aug 1985 Author’s Perspective: Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America · Alice Walker · ar Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review 1939 Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 1941 Author’s Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story · Eudora Welty · ar Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty Nov 10 1934 The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde · ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt 1888 Author’s Perspective: Wilde on the Aim of Art · Oscar Wilde · ar In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37 1980 A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday, London: Hogarth Press 1921 Author’s Perspective: Woolf on Women and Fiction · Virginia Woolf · ar The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss IV. CRITICISM AND SOURCES Fact into Fiction: Historical and Biographical Sources On Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tess Gallagher · ar The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tom Jenks · ar On Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer” The Trial of Sidney Smith · [Misc.] · ar The Sentencing of Sidney Smith · [Misc.] · ar On Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” The Sinking of the Commodore · Stephen Crane · ar On Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square” Lynching in Tennessee · James Weldon Johnson · ar On Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” "Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’" · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar On Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” Eatonville When You Look at It · Zora Neale Hurston · ar On London’s “To Build a Fore” London Defends the Factuality of “To Build a Fire” · Jack London · ar On Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal · Amasa Delano · ar On Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are you going, Where have you been?” The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action · Don Moser · ar On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” Alpha Company · Tim O’Brien · ar On Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to find” A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit · J. O. Tate · ar On Leslie Marmom Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” It’s Based upon Something Vaguely Similar · Leslie Marmon Silko · ar On Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” Amy Tan’s Unknown Chinese Family · Curt Schleier · ar Critical Approaches to Fiction Formalist Criticism The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar Biographical Criticism Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar Biographical Background to “Babylon Revisited” · Jeffrey Meyers · ar Historical Criticism Joyce’s Vision of Dublin · Seamus Deane · ar The Argentinean Context of Borges’s Fantastic Fiction · John King · ar Psychological Criticism The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar Mythological Criticism Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar Sociological Criticism Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar Gender Criticism Toward a Feminist Criticism · Elaine Showalter · ar Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar Reader-Response Criticism An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers · Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. · ar Deconstructionist Criticism The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar Cultural Studies Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar V. APPENDICES A History of the Short Story · [Misc.] · ms The Elements of Short Fiction · [Misc.] · ms Writing About Fiction · [Misc.] · ms