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- The Best American Short Stories 1996 ed. John Edgar Wideman & Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin, 1996, tp); [DKL]
- xi • Foreword • Anon. • fw
- xv • Introduction • John Edgar Wideman • in
- 1 • Complicities • Alice Adams • ss Michigan Quarterly Review, 1995
- 7 • Fires • Rick Bass • ss Big Sky Journal, 1995
- 20 • Driving the Heart • Jason Brown • ss Mississippi Review, 1995
- 33 • Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot • Robert Olen Butler • ss New Yorker May 22 ’95
- 40 • The Eve of the Spirit Festival • Lan Samantha Chang • ss Prairie Schooner, 1995
- 51 • Fitting Ends • Dan Chaon • ss TriQuarterly, 1995
- 69 • The Silver Screen • Peter Ho Davies • ss Harvard Review, 1995
- 86 • Ysrael • Junot Díaz • ss Story Aut ’95
- 97 • Sleep • Stephen Dixon • ss Harper’s Jan ’95
- 113 • Paper Lantern • Stuart Dybek • ss New Yorker Nov 27 ’95
- 126 • The Incredible Appearing Man • Deborah Galyan • nv The Missouri Review, 1995
- 151 • Intertextuality • Mary Gordon • ss The Recorder, 1995
- 159 • Past My Future • David Huddle • ss Story Aut ’95
- 177 • Bright Winter • Anna Keesey • ss Grand Street, 1995
- 195 • In Roseau • Jamaica Kincaid • ss New Yorker Apr 17 ’95
- 213 • Shades • William Henry Lewis • ss Ploughshares, 1995
- 220 • A Stand of Fables • William Lychack • ss Quarterly West, 1995
- 226 • Ghost Girls • Joyce Carol Oates • ss American Short Fiction, 1995
- 242 • Sculpture 1 • Angela Patrinos • ss New Yorker Jul 24 ’95
- 256 • Some Say the World • Susan Perabo • ss TriQuarterly, 1995
- 269 • The Trip to Halawa Valley • Lynne Sharon Schwartz • ss Shenandoah, 1995
- 282 • If You Sing Like That for Me • Akhil Sharma • nv Atlantic Monthly May ’95
- 307 • All Shall Love Me and Despair • Jean Thompson • ss Mid-American Review, 1995
- 321 • Xmas, Jamaica Plain • Melanie Rae Thon • ss The Ontario Review, 1995
- The Evening News Collection ed. Mark Williams (Chapmans 1-85592-003-4, 1991, £5.99, 269pp, tp); [IC]
- 5 • The Evening News • Misc. Material • ar
- 9 • Introduction • Leslie Thomas • ss
- 19 • A Good Boy • Griffith Leslie Thomas • ss
- 22 • How a Pub Was Shipwrecked by a Sailor’s Return... • W. W. Jacobs • ss London Evening News Aug 25 ’75; (this story is a condensed version of “Dixon’s Return”)
- 29 • A Midnight Train to Nowhere • Ken Follett • ss London Evening News Aug 19 ’75
- 33 • A Fine Sight • Denys Val Baker • ss London Evening News Aug 10 ’74
- 37 • Day to Remember • James Clavell • ss London Evening News Apr 11 ’56
- 41 • Bigger Money, Dear • Anthony Grey • ss
- 45 • Company Requested • Cardew Robinson • ss London Evening News May 20 ’74
- 49 • Poor M. Revoise • R. B. Layland • ss London Evening News Aug 2 ’73
- 53 • Once in Love with Carla • Stan Moye • ss London Evening News Aug 3 ’78
- 56 • The Specialist • Robert Quigley • ss London Evening News Sep 10 ’73
- 60 • The Lippi Madonna • Joan Forman • ss London Evening News May 19 ’73
- 64 • Key to the Question • Stephen Phillips • ss
- 68 • Hot South Wind • Edward Richard Rosset • ss London Evening News Jan 9 ’73
- 72 • Just a Peasant • Plichta Hall • ss London Evening News Apr 27 ’73
- 76 • Give a Man Enough Rope... • Frank Broadbridge • ss London Evening News Jul 13 ’78
- 80 • Games People Play • David Hunter • ss London Evening News Apr 4 ’79
- 84 • It Is Called Love • Barbara Cartland • ss London Evening News Oct 27 ’75
- 88 • Every Woman Needs to Have a Secret • Linden Howard • ss London Evening News Dec 29 ’75
- 92 • Postscript to a Marriage • Kay Harris • ss London Evening News Jul 21 ’78
- 96 • Bartram’s Book • Peter Wallace • ss London Evening News Apr 9 ’73
- 100 • Dented Dignity • Peter Wallace • ss London Evening News Oct 6 ’71
- 104 • Pay Time • John Renwick • ss London Evening News Jan 4 ’73
- 108 • Horses? I’ve Found the Magic Formula • Ray Kinross • ss London Evening News Oct 22 ’76
- 112 • A Very Simple Job • Peter Walsh • ss London Evening News Mar 16 ’72
- 116 • Wolf at the Door • Peter Wallace • ss London Evening News Dec 12 ’72
- 120 • The Thing That Went Scratch in the Night • Daniel Farson • ss London Evening News Nov 28 ’62
- 124 • Fat Cat • Brett Roberts • ss London Evening News May 3 ’73
- 128 • The Promise of Four Vital Blue Notes • Herbert Harris • ss London Evening News Jul 5 ’78
- 131 • When Sisterly Love Was at a Premium • G. M. Karhunen • ss London Evening News Jul 19 ’78
- 135 • Feeding Their Every Need • Susan Muir • ss London Evening News Nov 14 ’79
- 139 • A Modern Christmas • Carol Monica Dickens • ss
- 145 • Last of the Lady’s Wine • Terry Tapp • ss London Evening News Apr 17 ’78
- 149 • London Interlude • Michael Dawes • ss London Evening News Sep 24 ’73
- 153 • City Encounter • Philip Sagar • ss London Evening News Sep 17 ’73
- 157 • A Gentleman of the Road Smells Death • Paul Stuart • ss London Evening News Jul 11 ’78
- 161 • That First Week • John Aston • ss London Evening News Sep 21 ’73
- 165 • Looking for Clancy • L. F. Lampitt • ss London Evening News Oct 30 ’72
- 169 • The Frigate • Kenneth Hadler • ss London Evening News Mar 31 ’73
- 173 • Port of Rye • David R. Murduck • ss London Evening News May 2 ’72
- 176 • The Day Macey’s Time Was Up • John W. R. Unsworth • ss London Evening News Nov 20 ’74
- 180 • Checkmate • John W. R. Unsworth • ss London Evening News Sep 28 ’71
- 184 • Death Through a Glass... Darkly • Rik Ashard • ss London Evening News Jul 28 ’78
- 188 • Big Dippers • John Duncan • ss London Evening News May 2 ’75
- 192 • You and I are About to Die • Bill Bryson • ss London Evening News Jul 12 ’78
- 196 • The Unadulterated • Louise Allegri • ss London Evening News Apr 1 ’72
- 200 • Father’s Day of Reckoning • Margaret Webb • ss London Evening News Oct 31 ’74
- 204 • The Pick-Up • Edgar Wallace • ss John Bull’s Summer Annual, 1927
- 209 • Two of a Kind • Douglas Baker • ss London Evening News Nov 17 ’73
- 213 • The Hairpiece • N. A. Hilton • ss London Evening News Jul 6 ’72
- 217 • The Traveller • J. S. Brennan • ss London Evening News Aug 23 ’72
- 221 • Revenge of the Golden Lady • Nigel Pocknell • ss London Evening News Oct 26 ’76
- 225 • The Gong • Anthony Steel • ss London Evening News Feb 18 ’72
- 229 • Sold for a Farthing • Edward Turberville • ss London Evening News Sep 20 ’72
- 233 • The Tramp • Dillibe Onyeama • ss London Evening News Nov 10 ’71
- 237 • Issey Walk-About • Peter Kniveton • ss London Evening News Aug 10 ’68
- 241 • Hassan the Sweet Puts the Bite on Us Suckers • Bob Monkhouse • ss London Evening News Sep 10 ’76
- 245 • The Birthday Book • Leslie Thomas • ss London Evening News May 10 ’56
- 249 • Scoring Off Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse • ss The Strand Feb ’22
- 255 • The Gift of the Magi • O. Henry • ss The Four Million, Doubleday, 1906
- 261 • A Child’s Christmas • Dylan Thomas • ex
- The Evening News Collection (2) ed. Mark Williams (Chapmans 1-85592-004-2, 1991, £5.99, xiii+241pp, tp); [IC]
- v • Introduction • Monica Dickens • in
- 1 • The Tired Old Man • Monica Dickens • ss London Evening News Dec 10 ’46
- 6 • The Cat with One Life • Nigel Morland • ss London Evening News Sep 29 ’78
- 10 • Trouble with Time [“Crime on Mars”] • Arthur C. Clarke • ss EQMM Jul ’60
- 16 • An Old Lady Sings the Blues • Rosemary Timperley • ss London Evening News Dec 22 ’76
- 20 • He Couldn’t Win This Waiting Game • Jane Wallace • ss London Evening News Apr 4 ’75
- 23 • The Real McCoy • Lachlan McIntyre • ss London Evening News Nov 14 ’72
- 27 • Hands • Dorothy Bennett • ss London Evening News Feb 22 ’72
- 31 • The Führer’s Last Farewell • Plichta Hall • ss London Evening News Jan 21 ’75
- 35 • Dangerous Bend • Herbert Harris • ss London Evening News Mar 11 ’72
- 38 • With a Song in Her Heart • Martin K. Howard • ss London Evening News Aug 6 ’76
- 41 • Perchance to Dream • Cardew Robinson • ss London Evening News Dec 8 ’73
- 45 • A Friend in Greed • Phillip Allott • ss London Evening News Aug 1 ’78
- 49 • An Egg in the Hand • P. W. R. Foot • ss London Evening News May 25 ’79
- 53 • The Farewell Gift That Just Wasn’t Enough • Joy Mary Higham • ss London Evening News Dec 29 ’76
- 57 • Getting McGinty’s Goat • Dillon McCarthy • ss London Evening News Nov 18 ’72
- 60 • The Judge’s Dilemma • Louis Allegri • ss London Evening News Jul 13 ’79
- 64 • Bomb in the Bed • Harry Secombe • ss London Evening News Apr 23 ’63
- 69 • It Could Only Happen Once • Spike Milligan • ss London Evening News Jul 4 ’61
- 73 • The Wastrel • Peter Sellers • ss London Evening News Apr 26 ’63
- 78 • The Cat Burglar • Victoria Eden • ss London Evening News Nov 8 ’79
- 81 • Postscript to a Betrayal • Margaret Webb • ss London Evening News Feb 13 ’78
- 85 • Jimmy Pawson Doesn’t Care • Hilton Ambler • ss London Evening News Apr 14 ’72
- 89 • Love Letter Straight from the Heart • Terry Tapp • ss London Evening News Aug 16 ’78
- 93 • It’s a Dog’s Life for a Greedy Tramp • Roy Granville • ss London Evening News Sep 24 ’76
- 96 • The Sea Serpent • W. W. Jacobs • ss
- 103 • A Sting in the Tail of Harry’s Summer • Douglas Railton • ss London Evening News Aug 18 ’76
- 107 • Mango Millionaire • Anthony Steel • ss London Evening News Oct 18 ’71
- 111 • Semaphore • Willis Carstairs • ss London Evening News Feb 20 ’73
- 115 • Love Was Quite a Blow to Adam • William Glynne-Jones • ss London Evening News Jul 29 ’76
- 119 • Short Measure • Leslie Thomas • ss London Evening News Sep 1 ’56
- 122 • The Russian Princess • Willy Trebich • ss London Evening News Jan 13 ’72
- 126 • My Husband Says It All with Flowers • Martha Duncan • ss London Evening News Aug 10 ’76
- 130 • Ratcatcher • Herbert Harris • ss London Evening News Mar 17 ’73
- 134 • Elementary, My Dearest Watson • Eric Bean • ss London Evening News Aug 16 ’76
- 138 • Donald the Diplomat • John Hynam • ss London Evening News Mar 29 ’72
- 142 • Against the Bidding • Denys Val Baker • ss London Evening News May 4 ’73
- 146 • Bartimeus • Simple Sailor • ss London Evening News, 1949
- 149 • Family Funeral • Giovanni Ceccarelli • ss London Evening News Nov 7 ’73
- 153 • The Brand of Eve • C. S. Forester • ss London Evening News Mar 29 ’38
- 160 • The Housekeeper • J. I. Hobbs • ss
- 164 • Phantom at the Head of the Table... • Louis Allegri • ss London Evening News Dec 16 ’76
- 168 • Star Gazers • Roy Bolitho • ss London Evening News Feb 16 ’72
- 172 • The Winning Secret • Peter Wey • ss London Evening News Jul 18 ’78
- 176 • A Reflection of Life on the Last Train to Tooting • Robert Quigley • ss
- 179 • Death Trap • Jonathan Clark • ss London Evening News Mar 21 ’72
- 183 • The Treasure of the Ancient Mariner • Peter Peterson • ss London Evening News Jan 12 ’77
- 187 • More Than One Way to Kill a Cad... • Tony Steed • ss London Evening News Jul 21 ’75
- 190 • The Source of the World • H. E. Bates • ss London Evening News Oct 7 ’55
- 197 • What You Might Call the Stare of the Dog • Marjorie Fisher • ss London Evening News Apr 28 ’78
- 200 • Love That Had to Wait • W. J. Elsham • ss London Evening News Apr 20 ’79
- 204 • Unaccustomed Sheila • Kate Grenville • ss London Evening News Aug 19 ’80
- 207 • Room with a View • Kate Grenville • ss London Evening News Aug 20 ’80
- 209 • Sandy Plays a Waiting Game • Kate Grenville • ss London Evening News Aug 21 ’80
- 213 • Step Inside, Young Stranger • N. Tregenna • ss
- 216 • Fugitive on the Tobacco Trail • Martin Conlan • ss London Evening News Nov 1 ’74
- 220 • Gun-Man Meets the Sleeping Beauty • Larry Talbot • ss London Evening News Jul 30 ’75
- 223 • Jeeves Cracks the Great Pearl Robbery [Jeeves] • P. G. Wodehouse • ss London Evening News May 26 ’75; (this story is a condensed version of “Aunt Agatha Takes the Count”)
- 230 • How Ubaldo Cleaned Up at Sloppy Joe’s • Douglas Railton • ss London Evening News May 28 ’75
- 234 • Lucky Thirteen • William Glynne-Jones • ss London Evening News Aug 24 ’72
- 238 • The Thick Brown Door • Peter Kniveton • ss
- Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970 ed. Lex Williford & Michael Martone (Scribner 0-684-85796-0, Dec ’99, $16.00, 672pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Foreword • Lex Williford & Michael Martone • fw
- • Introduction • Rosellen Brown • in
- • This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona • Sherman Alexie • ss Esquire Jun ’93
- • Death by Landscape • Margaret Atwood • ss Saturday Night, 1989
- • Raymond’s Run • Toni Cade Bambara • ss
- • Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story • Russell Banks • nv The Missouri Review, 1984
- • Click • John Barth • ss
- • The School • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker, 1974
- • Wild Horses • Rick Bass • ss
- • The Man Who Knew Belle Starr • Richard Bausch • nv Atlantic Monthly Apr ’87
- • Gryphon • Charles Baxter • ss Epoch, 1985
- • Customs of the Country • Madison Smartt Bell • ss Harper’s Feb ’88
- • Silver Water • Amy Bloom • ss
- • Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta • Kate Braverman • ss Story Aut ’90
- • A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain • Robert Olen Butler • ss
- • The Year of Getting to Know Us • Ethan Canin • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’87
- • Errand • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Jun 1 ’87
- • Woman Hollering Creek • Sandra Cisneros • ss
- • White Angel • Michael Cunningham • ss New Yorker Jul 25 ’88
- • Fiesta, 1980 • Junot Diaz • ss Story, 1996
- • Pet Milk • Stuart Dybek • ss New Yorker Aug 13 ’84
- • The Prophet from Jupiter • Tony Earley • ss Harper’s Jan ’93
- • Saint Marie • Louise Erdrich • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’84
- • Rock Springs • Richard Ford • ss Esquire Feb ’82
- • The Mail Lady • David Gates • ss
- • Same Place, Same Things • Tim Gautreaux • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’91
- • Nebraska • Ron Hansen • ss Harper’s Dec ’86
- • In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried • Amy Hempel • ss
- • Emergency • Denis Johnson • ss
- • Marie • Edward P. Jones • ss
- • Cold Snap • Thom Jones • ss New Yorker Jun 21 ’93
- • Doe Season • David Michael Kaplan • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’85
- • Patriotic • Janet Kauffman • ss New Yorker Apr 11 ’83
- • Girl • Jamaica Kincaid • ss
- • Territory • David Leavitt • ss New Yorker May 31 ’82
- • The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas • Reginald McKnight • ss The Kenyon Review v11 #3 ’89
- • You’re Ugly, Too • Lorrie Moore • ss New Yorker Jul 3 ’89
- • The Management of Grief • Bharati Mukherjee • ss Fiction Network, 1988
- • Meneseteung • Alice Munro • nv New Yorker, 1988
- • Ghost Girls • Joyce Carol Oates • ss American Short Fiction, 1995
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • The Shawl • Cynthia Ozick • ss New Yorker May 26 ’80
- • Brokeback Mountain • Annie Proulx • ss New Yorker Oct 13 ’97
- • Strays • Mark Richard • ss Esquire Jul ’88
- • Intensive Care • Lee Smith • ss
- • The Way We Live Now • Susan Sontag • ss New Yorker Nov 24 ’86
- • Two Kinds • Amy Tan • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’89
- • First, Body • Melanie Rae Thon • ss
- • Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog • Stephanie Vaughn • ss
- • Nineteen Fifty-Five • Alice Walker • ss
- • Fever • John Edgar Wideman • nv Conjunctions #14 ’89
- • Taking Care • Joy Williams • ss
- The Dedalus Book of Sexual Ambiguity: Sexuality and Masquerade ed. Emma Wilson (Dedalus 1-873982-07-0, Nov ’96, £8.99, 274pp, tp); Associational anthology of 21 stories and novel excerpts, from the 1830s to the 1990s. Several have light fantasy elements, including Woolf, Wilde, Carter and Roberts. The cover title is & Masquerade.
- 3 • Introduction • Emma Wilson • in
- 35 • Monsieur Venus • Rachilde; trans. by Liz Heron • ex, 1884
- 41 • Lélia • George Sand; trans. by Emma Wilson • ex, 1833
- 49 • The Swimmer (Mallorca) • Anaïs Nin • ss Delta of Venus, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977
- 55 • Russian Princess [from Orlando] • Virginia Woolf • ex London: Hogarth House, 1928
- 75 • Paquita [from The Girl with the Golden Eyes] • Honoré de Balzac; trans. by Ernest Dowson • ex, 1835
- 83 • Cinephile [from The Holy Innocents] • Gilbert Adair • ex London: The Hogarth Press, 1988
- 89 • Hèléne L. [from The Lover] • Marguerite Duras; trans. by Emma Wilson • ex, 1984
- 95 • Robinson [from Friday, or The Other Island] • Michel Tournier; trans. by Norman Denny • ex, 1967
- 109 • Robin Vote [from Nightwood] • Djuna Barnes • ex, 1936
- 123 • Tiresias [“Reflections”] • Angela Carter • nv Fireworks, 1974
- 145 • Des Esseintes [from Against Nature] • Joris-Karl Huysmans • ex, 1884
- 159 • Bébé [from Nana] • Émile Zola; trans. by Charles Duff • ex, 1880
- 167 • Albertine [from The Captive] • Marcel Proust; trans. by Emma Wilson • ex, 1923
- 175 • The Other [from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments] • Roland Barthes; trans. by Richard Howard • ex, 1977
- 179 • The Lover [from The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague] • Sylvie Germain; trans. by Judith Landry • ex, 1992
- 185 • Théodore [from Mademoiselle de Maupin] • Théophile Gautier; trans. by Alvah C. Bessie • ex, 1835
- 221 • Léon [from Madame Bovary] • Gustav Flaubert • ex, 1857
- 235 • Dorian Gray [from The Picture of Dorian Gray] • Oscar Wilde • ex London: Ward, Lock, 1891
- 241 • Harcamone [from Miracle of the Rose] • Jean Genet; trans. by Bernard Frechtman • ex, 1951
- 255 • Camille [from Herculine Barbin] • Michel Foucault; trans. by Richard McDougall • ex, 1978
- 259 • Georgina [from Flesh and Blood] • Michèle Roberts • ex Virago, 1994
- Granta 58 ed. Robert Winder ( 0140141480, 1997, 254pp, tp)
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