Miscellaneous Anthologies Index

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The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories ed. Daniel Halpern (Penguin USA 0-140-07949-1, Aug ’89, $17.95, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. Introduction · Daniel Halpern · in The Sacrificial Egg · Chinua Achebe · ss The Bound Man · Ilse Aichinger · ss The Bound Man and Other Stories, Secker & Warburg 1955 Little Whale, Varnisher of Reality · Vasily Aksenov · ss Hair Jewellery · Margaret Atwood · ss Everything · Ingeborg Bachmann · ss Going to Meet the Man · James Baldwin · ss The Child Screams and Looks Back at You · Russell Banks · ss Fiction Magazine 1981 Cortes and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Jacklighting · Ann Beattie · ss First Love · Samuel Beckett · ss Action Will Be Taken · Heinrich Böll · ss Do Stay, Giraffe · Wolfgang Borchert · ss The Aleph · Jorge Luis Borges · ss This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen · Tadeusz Borowski · ss 1967 Cowardice · Abdeslam Boulaich · ss A Distant Episode · Paul Bowles · ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb 1947 Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review Spr 1982 Ceil · Harold Brodkey · ss The New Yorker Sep 12 1983 Seven Floors · Dino Buzzati · ss Catastrophe, Calder & Boyars 1965 The Adventure of a Traveler · Italo Calvino · ss The Adulterous Woman · Albert Camus · ss Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss Fat · Raymond Carver · ss The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker Nov 20 1954 Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl · Robert Coover · ss Bestiary · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House 1967 The Haile Selassie Funeral Train · Guy Davenport · ss The Cloak · Isak Dinesen · ss Ladies Home Journal May 1955 The Hunter · E. L. Doctorow · ss I Look Out for Ed Wolfe · Stanley Elkin · ss Esquire Sep 1962 Communist · Richard Ford · ss Antæus 1985 The Doll Queen [1969] · Carlos Fuentes · ss Antæus #13/14 1974 The Chosen Husband · Mavis Gallant · ss Order of Insects · William Gass · ss The Mother · Natalia Ginzburg · ss The Life of the Imagination · Nadine Gordimer · ss Two Gentle People · Graham Greene · ss Why I Transformed Myself into a Nightingale · Wolfgang Hildesheimer · ss One Arm · Yasunari Kawabata · ss Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead · Milan Kundera · ss Gogol’s Wife · Tommaso Landolfi · ss 1954 The Habit of Loving · Doris Lessing · nv The Challenge · Mario Vargas Llosa · ss 1979 The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish · Naguib Mahfouz · ss The Last Mohican · Bernard Malamud · nv The Partisan Review Spr 1958 Eyes of a Blue Dog · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss The New Yorker May 8 1978 The Pilgrimage · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker Aug 22 1953 First Love, Last Rites · Ian McEwan · ss The Deal · Leonard Michaels · ss Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire Apr 1966 Jewellery · Alberto Moravia · ss Doctor Safi · Mohammed Mrabet · ss Spring in Fialta · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Nine Stories, New Directions 1947 Naga · R. K. Narayan · ss The Tryst · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Sister Imelda · Edna O’Brien · nv The New Yorker Nov 9 1981 The Artificial Nigger · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Set of Variations on a Borrowed Theme · Frank O’Connor · ss The New Yorker Apr 30 1960 Nomad and Viper · Amos Oz · ss The Suitcase · Cynthia Ozick · ss The Contest · Grace Paley · ss Suicides · Cesare Pavese · ss The Saint · V. S. Pritchett · ss Horizon Apr 1940 Eventide · James Purdy · ss The Replacement · Alain Robbe-Grillet · ss Rain · Mercè Rodoreda · ss In the Garden · Leon Rooke · ss Talpa · Juan Rulfo · ss XXII · Nathalie Sarraute · ss Henne Fire · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Playboy May 1968 Unguided Tour · Susan Sontag · ss Children Are Bored on Sunday · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker Feb 21 1948 A Friend and Protector · Peter Taylor · ss Death and the Maiden · Michel Tournier · ss Beyond the Pale · William Trevor · ss The New Yorker Aug 10 1981 Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jun 23 1975 I’m Your Horse in the Night · Luisa Valenzuela · ss No Place for You, My Love · Eudora Welty · ss 1951 Five-Twenty · Patrick White · ss Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48 1980 Big, Black, Good Man · Richard Wright · ss Esquire Nov 1957 The Best of Everything · Richard Yates · ss Charm 1956 Biographical Notes · [Misc.] · bg

Iron Men and Silver Stars ed. Donald Hamilton (Fawcett, 1967, pb) [Western] The Mayor of Strawberry Hill · Todhunter Ballard · ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 3 1945 Epitaph · Tom W. Blackburn · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine Jul 1949, as “Epitaph for a Boomtown Marshal” Peace Officer · Brian Garfield · ss * The Guns of William Longley · Donald Hamilton · ss * In the Line of Duty · Elmer Kelton · ss * The O’Keefe Luck · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Coward’s Canyon · John Prescott · ss 1951; Popular Lawmen Stand Alone · Lin Searles · ss 1956; Stadium The Hangman · Luke Short · ss *; earlier version as “Pull Your Freight”, 1956. Lynch Mob at Cimarron Crossing · Thomas Thompson · ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 24 1956 Green Wounds · Carter Travis Young · ss 1967

Sport ed. Graham Handley (London: J. Murray 0719536650, 1980, 122pp, pb) The short story series. The Story of Spedegue’s Dropper · Sir A. Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Oct 1928 Spit Nolan · Bill Naughton · ss Lilliput Oct/Nov 1951 The Purity of the Turf · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Cosmopolitan Jul 1922 The Rugby International · John Buchan · ss A Piece of Steak · Jack London · ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 20 1909 The Half-Mile · T. O. Beachcroft · ss The Bear-Hunt · Leo Tolstoy · ss Play Up, Play Up and Get Tore In · Fraser G. Macdonald · ss Manhood · John Wain · ss Big Two-Hearted River · Ernest Hemingway · ss This Quarter Spr 1925

Western Roundup! ed. Arnold Hano (Bantam, 1948, pb) [Western] Massacre · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 22 1947 Wine on the Desert · Max Brand · ss This Week Jun 7 1936 Six-Gun Sermon · W. Edmunds Claussen · ss Frontier Stories Sum 1948 Lead Shy · Peter Dawson · ss Fifteen Western Tales Feb 1947 Slow Draw—Sudden Grave · H. A. DeRosso · ss New Western Magazine Sep 1944 Waterhole · Hal G. Evarts · ss Collier’s Nov 1947 The Poisoner · Bennett Foster · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 7 1948 Mountain Medicine · A. B. Guthrie · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 16 1947 A Gentleman of La Porte · Bret Harte · ss 1914 A Day in Town · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s Jan 1 1938 The Ransom of Mack · O. Henry · ss McClure’s Dec 1904; from Hearts of the West, Doubleday, 1907. Strange Return · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Collier’s Apr 18 1936 Trail Driver’s Luck · Alan LeMay · ss Collier’s Jul 5 1930 For Sale, the Golden Queen · H. W. Phillips · ss; from Red Saunders’ Pets and Other Critters, Doubleday, 1902. The Long Shift · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss McClure’s Aug 1907; in West Is West, H.K. Fly Co., 1917. The Story of a Cowpuncher · Charles M. Russell · ss; from Trails Plowed Under, Doubleday, 1927. The Doctor Keeps a Promise · Luke Short · ss Collier’s Mar 2 1940 Aurelia’s Unfortunate Young Man · Mark Twain · ss; from Sketches, Old and New. The Honk-Honk Breed · Stewart Edward White · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1907; from Arizona Nights, McClure, 1907.

Western Triggers ed. Arnold Hano (Bantam, 1948, pb) [Western] Blue Norther · Allan R. Bosworth · ss Collier’s Jun 28 1947 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun 1897; in Twenty Stories, Knopf, 1925. Back-Trail Harvest · Peter Dawson · nv 10 Story Western Magazine Aug 1946 Last Manhunt · H. A. DeRosso · nv Dime Western Magazine Sep 1947 An Ingenue of the Sierras · Bret Harte · ss 1893 Officer’s Choice · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s Jul 4 1931 The Handbook of Hymen · O. Henry · ss Heart of the West, McClure 1904 And Him Long Gone · Alan LeMay · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 27 1932 Where the Horse Is Fate · Henry Wallace Phillips · ss; from Red Sauders’ Pets and Other Critters, 1906. Some Liars of the Old West · Charles M. Russell · ar Short Stories Jul 10 1922; from Trails Plowed Under, 1927. Shorty Buys a Hat · Ross Santee · ss Leslie’s Weekly Apr 22 1922; from Men and Horses, Century Co. 1926. Top Hand · Luke Short · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 30 1943 The Two-Gun Man · Stewart Edward White · ss Collier’s Apr 15 1905; from Arizona Nights, Doubleday, 1907.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1935 ed. Harry Hansen (Doubleday, Doran, 1935, 284+xvii, hc) Prize jury: Tess Slesinger, Clifton Fadiman, Joseph Henry Jackson. [TM] vii · Introduction · Harry Hansen · in 3 · The White Horses of Vienna · Kay Boyle · ss Harper’s Apr 1935 23 · The Home Place · Dorothy Thomas · nv Harper’s Jan 1935 57 · John the Six · Josephine W. Johnson · ss Atlantic Monthly May 1935 63 · The Brothers’ House · Nelson Algren · ss Story Oct 1934 71 · The Professor’s Punch · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Delineator Apr 1935 87 · Leora’s Father · Katherine Hamill · ss Atlantic Monthly 1935 103 · Silent Grow the Guns · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Redbook May 1935 125 · Little Elise · Dorothy McCleary · ss Story Aug 1934 141 · A Writer Interviews a Banker · Louis Mamet · ss Anvil 1935, as “Not Without Propaganda” 153 · Country Doctor · Don Marquis · ss The American Magazine Mar 1935 171 · Jesus Knew · E. P. O’Donnell · ss Harper’s Apr 1935 189 · Lay Me Low! · Louis Paul · ss Forum and Century Feb 1935 205 · Water · Ross Santee · ss Collier’s Apr 27 1935 211 · Five Ripe Pears · William Saroyan · ss The Yale Review Aut 1935 219 · “When Spring Brings Back...” · Edward Shenton · ss Scribner’s 1935 229 · First Day · Richard Sherman · ss The American Magazine Jun 1935 237 · Long Distance · Upton Terrell · ss Frontier and Midland 1935 259 · My Father Sits in the Dark · Jerome Weidman · ss Story Nov 1934 267 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker Jun 15 1935 277 · Appendix · Anon. · ms

You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe ed. Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard (Harperperennial Library 0-060-98202-0, Oct ’94, $18.00, 640pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. Introduction · Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard · in Introduction · Annie Dillard · is A Mother’s Tale · James Agee · nv Harper’s Bazaar Jul 1952 Introduction · Francine Prose · is Guy de Maupassant · Isaac Babel · ss Introduction · Kenneth A. McClane · is Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957 Introduction · T. Coraghessan Boyle · is The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Jun 17 1974 Introduction · Oscar Hijuelos · is The Aleph · Jorge Luis Borges · ss Introduction · Joy Williams · is A Day in the Open · Jane Bowles · ss Introduction · John L’Heureux · is A Distant Episode · Paul Bowles · ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb 1947 Introduction · John Hawkes · is The Star Cafe · Mary Caponegro · ss Introduction · Robert Coover · is Reflections · Angela Carter · nv Fireworks 1974 Introduction · Tobias Wolff · is Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep 1981 Introduction · Allan Gurganus · is Goodbye, My Brother · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Aug 25 1951 Introduction · Eudora Welty · is Gooseberries · Anton Chekhov · ss Introduction · John Irving · is A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall 1843 Introduction · Amy Tan · is Pie Dance · Molly Giles · ss Introduction · Charles Baxter · is Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases · Lars Gustafsson · ss Introduction · Jane Smiley · is The Interview · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · ss The New Yorker Introduction · Mary Gordon · is The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners, London: Cape 1914 Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · is In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka · nv Introduction · Stephanie Vaughn · is Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · ss Introduction · Julia Alvarez · is The Smallest Woman in the World · Clarice Lispector · ss The Kenyon Review Sum 1964 Introduction · Deborah Eisenberg · is The Daughters of the Late Colonel · Katherine Mansfield · ss Introduction · David Leavitt · is Labor Day Dinner · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker Sep 28 1981 Introduction · Jim Shepard · is Spring in Fialta · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Nine Stories, New Directions 1947 Introduction · Bobbie Ann Mason · is The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug 1986 Introduction · Sue Miller · is A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon 1953 Introduction · Amy Hempel · is I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss Tell Me a Riddle, Delacorte 1956 Introduction · Janet Kauffman · is Wants · Grace Paley · ss Introduction · Tim O’Brien · is In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss 1937 Introduction · Louis Owens · is The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss Introduction · Louise Erdrich · is Helping · Robert Stone · ss The New Yorker Jun 8 1987 Introduction · Ron Hansen · is Master and Man · Leo Tolstoy · ss Introduction · Lorrie Moore · is Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car · John Updike · ss Introduction · Edward P. Jones · is The Flowers · Alice Walker · ss Introduction · Russell Banks · is No Place for You, My Love · Eudora Welty · ss 1951 Introduction · Al Young · is Paper Garden · Jerome Wilson · ss About the Authors · [Misc.] · bg

A Mexicon Decade ed. Colin Harris (Mexicon 6, Jun ’94, no price, 44pp, ph, cover by Dave Carson) Anthology of original pieces by past Mexicon guests to celebrate the tenth anniversary. Limited to 400 numbered copies. 2 · Editorial · Colin Harris · ed * 3 · A Brief History of Mexicon · Colin Harris · ar * 6 · In the Public Eye [from The History Maker] · Alasdair Gray · ex * 9 · Survivors · John Clute · ar * 12 · Against a Dark Background (Epilogue) · Iain M. Banks · ss * 16 · Losing the Edge · Paul Kincaid · ar * 20 · From Tilbury Out [from Radon Daughters] · Iain Sinclair · ex * 23 · Tube Chiefs Talk Tough! Gi’z a Pint! · Howard Waldrop · ar * 28 · Voice Over · Norman Spinrad · pl * 32 · Crib Notes for ‘Chaga’ · Ian McDonald · ar * 35 · Barsoom Ballads and Martian Odysseys · [Misc.] 35 · A True Tale of the Martian Marchlands · Steve Sneyd · pm Beneath Twin Moons, ed. Anon., Running Dinosaur 1990 35 · Red Desert · Peter T. Garratt · ex 36 · Malacandra · K. V. Bailey · pm 36 · Aberystwyth · Sue Thomason · pm 36 · Stone Demon · John Francis Haines · pm Fantasy Commentator Fll 1991 37 · The Lichen Manuscript/Mars is a District of Sheffield · Andrew Darlington · pm 38 · How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Science Fiction · Colin Greenland · ar * 42 · Print the Legend · Abigail Frost · ar *

Ahead of Time ed. Harry Harrison & Theodore J. Gordon (Doubleday 74-170797, 1972 [May ’89], $4.95, xiv+201pp, hc, cover by Patricia Saville Voehl) Anthology of science essays. [PSP] ix · Introduction · Harry Harrison & Theodore J. Gordon · in * 1 · The Conquest of Senescence · R. W. Prehoda · ar 21 · People Freezing: The Establishment Thaws · R. C. W. Ettinger · ar * 45 · What are Tachyons, and What Could We Do with Them? · G. Feinberg · ar Islands in Space, ed. Dandridge M. Cole & Donald W. Cox, Chilton Books 1964 55 · Inside-out Worlds · D. M. Cole & D. W. Cox · ar 68 · Requirements for Communications to a Naive Recipient · A. G. Wilson & T. J. Gordon · ar 84 · Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation · F. J. Dyson · ar Science 1960 88 · Psychology in the Year 2000 · G. Murphy · ar American Psychologist May 1969 106 · Do Plants Feel Emotions? · T. Bacon & R. Kirkpatrick · ar National Wildlife Feb/Mar 1969 117 · Anomalous Prediction of Quantum Processes by Some Human Subjects · H. Schmidt · ar * 129 · Long Delayed Echoes of Radio Transmissions · O. G. Villard, Jr., C. R. Graf & J. M. Lomasney · ar QST May 1969 142 · The Life and Death of Project Camelot · I. L. Horowitz · ar Trans-Action Magazine 1965 166 · The Jousting at Camelot - or Social Technology Encounters the Shield of the Social Structure · T. R. Vallance · ar * 174 · Ovshinsky: Promoter or Persecuted Genius? · P. M. Boffey · ar Science Aug 1969 190 · The Strange Case of Polywater · M. Sinclair · ar Industrial Research Sep 1969