| Contents |
Writing about fiction -- Stories. One of Star Wars, one of Doom / Lee K. Abbott ; I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson ; Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood ; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara ; The littoral zone / Andrea Barrett ; Me and Miss Mandible / Donald Barthelme ; Byron the Lyron / Richard Bausch ; The disappeared / Charles Baxter ; Snow / Ann Beattie ; Witness / Madison Smartt Bell ; Who is it can tell me who I am? / Gina Berriault ; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges ; The veldt / Ray Bradbury ; Bread / Frederick Busch ; The year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin ; Miriam / Truman Capote ; The student's wife / Raymond Carver ; Cathedral / Raymond Carver ; The rationing of love / R.V. Cassill ; A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather ; Paul's case / Willa Cather ; The enormous radio / John Cheever ; The death of Justina / John Cheever ; Gusev / Anton Chekhov ; Anna on the neck / Anton Chekhov ; The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov ; The story of an hour / Kate Chopin ; The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) ; The invalid's story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) ; Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; A continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar ; Letter to a young lady in Paris / Julio Cortázar ; The open boat / Stephen Crane ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane ; A wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat ; Sorrow-acre / Isak Dinesen ; Public appearances / Susan Dodd ; The intruder / Andre Dubus ; We didn't / Stuart Dybek ; I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin ; King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison ; Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner ; Dry September / William Faulkner ; Barn burning / William Faulkner ; Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Great falls / Richard Ford ; A New England nun / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ; The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez ; Wounded solider / George Garrett ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; A soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer ; Ghost and flesh, water and dirt / William Goyen ; Nativity, Caucasian / Allan Gurganus ; |
| Contents |
Constant pain in Tuscaloosa / Barry Hannah ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway ; In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel ; The wedding of snow and ice / Alice Hoffman ; The conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston ; The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; Greville fane / Henry James ; Passion / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; Moving pictures / Charles Johnson ; A new man / Edward P. Jones ; Araby / James Joyce ; A little cloud / James Joyce ; The dead / James Joyce ; The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka ; A hunger artist / Franz Kafka ; The white horse / Yasunari Kawabata ; Girl / Jamaica Kincaid ; Ex parte / Ring Lardner ; The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence ; The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence ; The ones who walk away from omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin ; To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing ; Brief lives of California / John L'Heureux ; My father's Chinese wives / Sanda Tsing Loh ; Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud ; Death in Venice / Thomas Mann ; Disorder and early sorrow / Thomas Mann ; Bliss / Katherine Mansfield ; Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason ; Boule de suif / Guy de Maupassant ; An adventure in Paris / Guy de Maupassant ; The thistles in Sweden / William Maxwell ; Intervention / Jill McCorkle ; Why I like country music / James Alan McPherson ; Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville ; The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee ; Royal beatings / Alice Munro ; Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro ; Position / Sabina Murray ; Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov ; |
| Contents |
The several blessings of Wang Ta-nien / Hua-Ling Nieh ; How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates ; The things they carried / Tim O'Brien ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; Good country people / Flannery O'Connor ; Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor ; Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor ; O yes / Tillie Olsen ; War / Luigi Pirandello ; The fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe ; The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe ; The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter ; Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter ; The fall / V.S. Pritchett ; Morpheus / Agnes Rossi ; The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth ; The girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw ; Lost at C / Jean Shepherd ; Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Intensive care / Lee Smith ; Wisteria / Elizabeth Spencer ; The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck ; Under the pitons / Robert Stone ; Marine life / Linda Svendsen ; Rules of the game / Amy Tan ; A spinster's tale / Peter Taylor ; The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber ; The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy ; A & P / John Updike ; Brother Grasshopper / John Updike ; The moths / Helena María Viramontes ; Everyday use / Alice Walker ; Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren ; Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty ; A worn path / Eudora Welty ; The man who loved Levittown / W.D. Wetherell ; Xingu / Edith Wharton ; Goose Pond / Thomas Williams ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams ; In the garden of North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff ; Kew gardens / Virginia Wolff ; The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- |
| Contents |
Writers on writing. Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood ; What is it you think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara ; Letter to a young writer / Richard Bausch ; From On writing / Raymond Carver ; Letter to D.V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886 / Anton Chekhov ; Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov ; Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" / Joseph Conrad ; Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918 / Joseph Conrad ; Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895[?] / Stephen Crane ; An interview / Ralph Ellison ; An interview / William Faulkner ; An interview / Ernest Hemingway ; The art of fiction / Henry James ; Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 / Franz Kafka ; Why the novel matters / D.H. Lawrence ; An interview / Dorris Lessing ; Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 / Thomas Mann ; The novel / Guy de Maupassant ; A four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee ; What is real? / Alice Munro ; The art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates ; The nature and aim of fiction / Flannery O'Connor ; The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe ; An interview / Katherine Anne Porter ; An interview / James Thurber ; What is art? / Leo Tolstory ; Accepting the Howells Medal / John Updike ; An interview / Eudora Welty -- |
| Contents |
Writing fiction -- Reviews and commentaries. Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" / Andrea Barrett ; Anton Chekhov's "Gusev" / Richard Bausch ; William Maxwell's "The thistles in Sweden" / Charles Baxter ; Peter Taylor's "A spinster's tale" / Ann Beattie ; George Garrett's "Wounded soldier" / Madison Smartt Bell ; Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like white elephants" / Frederick Busch ; Kafka's The metamorphosis : metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold ; Eudora Welty's "A worn path" / Susan Dodd ; Bharati Mukherjee's "The management of grief" / Richard Ford ; William Goyen's "Ghost and flesh, water and dirt" / George Garrett ; Stephen Crane's "The open boat" / Allan Gurganus ; Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Barry Hannah ; Frank O'Connor's "Guests of the nation" / Edward P. Jones ; Structure and sympathy in Joyce's "The dead" / C.C. Loomis, Jr. ; [Thomas Mann's "Iridescent interweaving"] / David Luke ; Melville's parable of the walls / Leo Marx ; The reader as voyeur : Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction / Gary Saul Morson ; Review of Hawthorne's Twice told / Edgar Allan Poe ; Racism and the Heart of darkness / C.P. Sarvan ; Flannery O'Connor's "A good man is hard to find" / Lee Smith ; Three New Yorker stalwarts [William Maxwell] / John Updike ; [Stephen Crane : naturalist] / Charles C. Walcutt ; The House of Poe / Richard Wilbur ; Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-acre" / Tobias Wolff -- Glossary of critical terms. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| LCCN | 2005054729 |
| ISBN | 0393926117 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780393926118 (pbk.) |
