Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers ed. Joyce Carol Oates (W.W. Norton, January 1998, 0-393-97176-7, $37.65, 750pp, tp, an, cover by Grant Wood)
Associational anthology of 111 stories, narrative poems, and non-fiction pieces aimed at teaching writers. There are sections on the supernatural (Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft) and on retelling myth and fairy tales (Angela Carter), but the bulk is non-genre, despite pieces from other familiar authors including Harlan Ellison, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Oates herself.
- · Introduction: Why We Write, Why We Read · Joyce Carol Oates · in
- · I. Miniature Narratives
- · The Student · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · The Sirens · Franz Kafka · ss (r)
- · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933
- · The Wind Blows · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)
- · Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, 1937
- · I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976
- · The House of the Crime · Alberto Moravia · ss (r)
- · The Supper · Tadeusz Borowski · ss (r)
- · Cities & the Dead · Italo Calvino · ss (r)
- · Continuous Cities · Italo Calvino · ss (r)
- · Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)
- · The Turtle Overnight · James Wright · ss (r)
- · Regret for a Spider Web · James Wright · ss (r)
- · Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor · Phyllis Koestenbaum · ss (r)
- · Distance from Loved Ones · James Tate · ss (r)
- · Cockroaches in Autumn · Lydia Davis · ss (r)
- · Coffee · Daniel Halpern · ss (r)
- · Advice to Young Writers · Ron Padgett · ss (r)
- · The Last Days of a Famous Mime · Peter Carey · ss (r)
- · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.
- · Death of the Right Fielder · Stuart Dybek · ss (r)
- · 14 May 1905 and 15 May 1905 · Alan Lightman · ss (r)
- · La Cortada · Ruth Behar · ss (r)
- · II. Dramatic Monologues
- · Lethal · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Where Is Here? by Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco Press, 1992
- · Twirler · Jane Martin · ss (r)
- · Testimonies · August Wilson · ss (r)
- · Still Life · Emily Mann · ss (r)
- · III. Early Stories
- · The Judgment · Franz Kafka · ss 1913
- · Indian Camp [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review April 1924, as “One Night Last Summer”
- · The Burning Baby · Dylan Thomas · ss Contemporary Poetry and Prose May 1936
- · Wunderkind · Carson McCullers · ss Story #53, December 1936, as by Carson Smith
- · Goodbye, My Brother · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker August 25 1951
- · Friends from Philadelphia · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 30 1954
- · Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)
- · The Naked Lady · Madison Smartt Bell · ss The Crescent Review #1, 1983
- · The Sutton Pie Safe · Pinckney Benedict · ss The Henfield Prize Stories ed. John Birmingham, Laura Gilpin & Joseph F. McCrindle, Warner, 1992
- · A Portrait of a Father · Jonathan Ames · ss (r)
- · IV. The Art and the Craft of Revision
- · The Sisters · James Joyce · ss Irish Homestead August 13 1904
- · The Sisters (1914) · James Joyce · ss (r)
- · V. Re-Visions: Reappropriations
- · Genesis 19 · [uncredited] · ex from The Hebrew Bible (r)
- · The Cave · Alicia Ostriker · ss (r)
- · The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira · Ovid · ss (r)
- · Hercules, Deianira, Nessus · C. K. Williams · ss (r)
- · The Story of Daedalus and Icarus · Ovid · ss (r)
- · Fever · Harlan Ellison · vi Mind Fields by Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison, Morpheus International, 1994
- · Little Red-Cap · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823, as by The Brothers Grimm
translated from the German (“Rothkäppchen”, 1812).
- · The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979
revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.
- · Little Snow-White · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)
- · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Anne Sexton · ss (r)
- · VI. Narrative in Other Modes
- · Memoir, Diary, Personal Document
- · Passages from the American Notebooks · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex Smith, Elder, 1868
- · From the Journal (May 1853-October 1857) · Henry David Thoreau · ex (r)
- · From the Diary (February-March 1930) · Virginia Woolf · ex (r)
- · Moments of Being · Virginia Woolf · ex Harvest/HBJ, 1985
- · American Hunger · Richard Wright · ar (r)
- · How It Feels to Be Colored Me · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)
- · Borges and I · Jorge Luis Borges · ar (r)
- · Those Who Must Jump · M. F. K. Fisher · ar (r)
- · Passing Through Tangiers · Jack Kerouac · ar (r)
- · No Name Woman · Maxine Hong Kingston · ar (r)
- · Updike and I · John Updike · ar (r)
- · The Dream · Mikal Gilmore · ar (r)
- · Poems That Tell Stories
- · Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops · Homer · pm (r)
- · The Story of Actaeon · Ovid · pm (r)
- · Home Burial · Robert Frost · pm (r)
- · Cherrylog Road · James Dickey · pm (r)
- · The Car · Raymond Carver · pm (r)
- · 400-Meter Freestyle · Maxine Kumin · pm (r)
- · Emergencies · Annie Dillard · pm (r)
- · Cattle-Killing Winter, 1889-90 · Jana Harris · pm (r)
- · Avalanche · Jana Harris · pm (r)
- · Violence · Tom Wayman · pm (r)
- · Sure Shot · Erica Funkhouser · pm (r)
- · Testimony · Jon Davis · pm (r)
- · After the Fact: To Ted Bundy · Robert Phillips · pm (r)
- · Target Practice · Gary Soto · pm (r)
- · The Levee · Gary Soto · pm (r)
- · The Trees That Change Our Lives · Gary Soto · pm (r)
- · The Wrestler’s Heart · Gary Soto · pm (r)
- · When Jesus Walked · Carlos Cumpian · pm (r)
- · Aisle of Dogs · Chase Twichell · pm (r)
- · The Cleaving · Li-Young Lee · pm (r)
- · The Flood · Joy Harjo · pm The Best of the West 4 ed. James & Denise Thomas, Norton, 1991
- · VII. Genre: Horror
- · The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924
- · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994
- · VIII. Classics and Contemporaries
- · “Tickets, Please!” · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Strand Magazine April 1919
- · Sun and Moon · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)
- · That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931
- · A Temple of the Holy Ghost · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955
- · Anxiety · Grace Paley · ss (r)
- · The Balloon · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 16 1966
- · The Writer in the Family · E. L. Doctorow · ss Esquire August 1984
- · Why Don’t You Dance? · Raymond Carver · ss (r)
- · The Man from Mars · Margaret Atwood · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1977
- · Jasmine · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r)
- · Sister · Tobias Wolff · ss Ploughshares Winter 1983
- · Communist · Richard Ford · ss Antæus #55, Autumn 1985
- · Any Sport · William Heyen · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1986
- · Mourning · Robert Taylor, Jr. · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1981
- · My Man Bovanne · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Black World October 1971, as “Mama Hazel Takes to Her Bed”
- · Cutter · C. E. Poverman · ss Skin by C. E. Poverman, Ontario Review, 1992
- · I Dated Jane Austen · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss Georgia Review Summer 1979
- · Dating Your Mom · Ian Frazier · ss The New Yorker July 3 1978
- · Aren’t You Happy for Me? · Richard Bausch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1993
- · My Mother · Jamaica Kincaid · ss At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Plume, 1992
- · Fruit of the Month · Abby Frucht · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1984
- · Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981
- · X and O · Jewel Mogan · ss (r)
- · The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985
- · Young Lions · Edward P. Jones · ss (r)
- · Gravity · David Leavitt · ss A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt, Viking, 1990
- · Just Don’t Touch Anything · Russell Banks · ss GQ May 1993
- · In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986
- · The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker December 2 1991
- · Family · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Omni December 1989
- · The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop · Joyce Carol Oates · aw
- · Notes on Authors · [uncredited] · bg
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