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Achebe, Chinua author
Aiken, Conrad,1889-1973 author
Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke,1892-1927 author
Alexie, Sherman,1966- author
Allende, Isabel author
Aiken, Conrad,1889-1973 author
Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke,1892-1927 author
Alexie, Sherman,1966- author
Allende, Isabel author
Anderson, Sherwood,1876-1941 author
Atwood, Margaret,1939- author
Baldwin, James,1924-1987 author
Bambara, Toni Cade author
Banks, Russell,1940- author
Barry, Lynda author
Barthelme, Donald author
Beattie, Ann author
Bechdel, Alison,1960- author
Bender, Aimee author
Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914? author
Booth, Wayne C. contributor
Borges, Jorge Luis,1899-1986 author
Borowski, Tadeusz,1922-1951 author
Boyle, T. Coraghessan author
Bradbury, Ray,1920-2012 author
Brennan, Matthew C. contributor
Brooks, Cleanth,1906-1994 contributor
Burke, Jan contributor
Byerman, Keith E. contributor
Camus, Albert,1913-1960 author
Carter, Angela,1940-1992 author
Carver, Raymond,1938-1988 author
Cather, Willa,1873-1947 author
Chang, Lan Samantha author
Charters, Ann editor
Charters, Ann,1936
Cheever, John author
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904 author
Chopin, Kate,1850-1904 author
Cisneros, Sandra author
Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924 author
Cortázar, Julio author
Crane, Stephen,1871-1900 author
Crumb, R. contributor
Danticat, Edwidge,1969- author
Davis, Lydia author
Díaz, Junot,1968- author
Eisner, Will contributor
Ellison, Ralph author
Ellmann, Richard,1918-1987 contributor
Erdrich, Louise author
Faulkner, William,1897-1962 author
Fitzgerald, F. Scott1896-1940 author
Flynn, Sean contributor
Ford, Richard,1944- contributor
Fuentes, Carlos contributor
García Márquez, Gabriel,1927-2014 author
Gilb, Dagoberto,1950- author
Gilbert, Sandra M. contributor
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,1860-1935 author
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich,1809-1852 author
Gordimer, Nadine author
Gornick, Vivian contributor
Granados, Christine author
Gubar, Susan,1944- contributor
Harris, Janice H. contributor
Hatfield, Charles contributor
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864 author
Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961 author
Hempel, Amy author
Henry, O.,1862-1910 author
Homes, A. M. author
Hurston, Zora Neale author
Irving, Washington,1783-1859 author
Jackson, Shirley,1916-1965 author
James, Henry,1843-1916 author
Janouch, Gustav contributor
Jen, Gish author
Jenks, Tom contributor
Jewett, Sarah Orne,1849-1909 author
Jin, Ha author
Johnson, Denis author
Jones, Edward P. author
Jones, Thom author
Joyce, James,1882-1941 author
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924 author
Keret, Etgar,1967- author
Kincaid, Jamaica author
Kinsella, W. P. author
Kupperman, Michael contributor
Lahiri, Jhumpa author
Lamott, Anne contributor
Lawrence, D. H.1885-1930 author
Lawson, Henry author
Le Guin, Ursula K.,1929- author
Lessing, Doris,1919-2013 author
Lewis, Simon contributor
London, Jack,1876-1916 author
Mairowitz, David Zane,1943- contributor
Mansfield, Katherine,1888-1923 author
Mason, Bobbie Ann author
Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893 author
McClane, Kenneth A. contributor
McCloud, Scott contributor
McFarland, Dorothy Tuck,1938- contributor
Melville, Herman,1819-1891 author
Miller, J. Hillis1928- contributor
Millhauser, Steven author
Moody, Rick author
Moore, Lorrie author
Moser, Don contributor
Mueenuddin, Daniyal author
Mukherjee, Bharati author
Munro, Alice,1931- author
Murakami, Haruki,1949- author
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,1899-1977 contributor
Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph,1753-1819 contributor
O'Brien, Tim,1946- author
O'Connor, Flannery author
O'Connor, Frank author
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938- author
Olsen, Tillie author
Ozick, Cynthia author
Palahniuk, Chuck author
Paley, Grace author
Parini, Jay contributor
Paz, Octavio,1914-1998 author
Phillips, Jayne Anne,1952- author
Plum, Sydney contributor
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849 author
Porter, Katherine Anne,1890-1980 author
Proulx, Annie author
Roth, Philip author
Sacco, Joe author
Said, Edward W. contributor
Saki,1870-1916 author
Saltzman, Arthur M. contributor
Satrapi, Marjane,1969- author
Saunders, George author
Scott, A. O. contributor
Shields, Carol author
Showalter, Elaine contributor
Silko, Leslie Marmon,1948- author
Simpson, Helen author
Smith, Zadie author
Sontag, Susan,1933-2004 author
Spiegelman, Art author
Steinbeck, John,1902-1968 author
Tan, Amy author
Tolstoy, Leo,graf,1828-1910 author
Toomer, Jean,1894-1967 author
Trilling, Lionel,1905-1975 contributor
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 author
Updike, John author
Urquhart, Jane author
Viramontes, Helena María,1954- author
Vonnegut, Kurt author
Walker, Alice,1944- author
Wallace, David Foster author
Warren, Robert Penn,1905-1989 contributor
Watson, Brad author
Welty, Eudora,1909-2001 author
Wharton, Edith,1862-1937 author
Wideman, John Edgar author
Williams, William Carlos,1883-1963 author
Wolff, Tobias,1945- author
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941 author
Wright, Richard,1908-1960 author
Yamamoto, Hisaye author
Atwood, Margaret,1939- author
Baldwin, James,1924-1987 author
Bambara, Toni Cade author
Banks, Russell,1940- author
Barry, Lynda author
Barthelme, Donald author
Beattie, Ann author
Bechdel, Alison,1960- author
Bender, Aimee author
Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914? author
Booth, Wayne C. contributor
Borges, Jorge Luis,1899-1986 author
Borowski, Tadeusz,1922-1951 author
Boyle, T. Coraghessan author
Bradbury, Ray,1920-2012 author
Brennan, Matthew C. contributor
Brooks, Cleanth,1906-1994 contributor
Burke, Jan contributor
Byerman, Keith E. contributor
Camus, Albert,1913-1960 author
Carter, Angela,1940-1992 author
Carver, Raymond,1938-1988 author
Cather, Willa,1873-1947 author
Chang, Lan Samantha author
Charters, Ann editor
Charters, Ann,1936
Cheever, John author
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904 author
Chopin, Kate,1850-1904 author
Cisneros, Sandra author
Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924 author
Cortázar, Julio author
Crane, Stephen,1871-1900 author
Crumb, R. contributor
Danticat, Edwidge,1969- author
Davis, Lydia author
Díaz, Junot,1968- author
Eisner, Will contributor
Ellison, Ralph author
Ellmann, Richard,1918-1987 contributor
Erdrich, Louise author
Faulkner, William,1897-1962 author
Fitzgerald, F. Scott1896-1940 author
Flynn, Sean contributor
Ford, Richard,1944- contributor
Fuentes, Carlos contributor
García Márquez, Gabriel,1927-2014 author
Gilb, Dagoberto,1950- author
Gilbert, Sandra M. contributor
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,1860-1935 author
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich,1809-1852 author
Gordimer, Nadine author
Gornick, Vivian contributor
Granados, Christine author
Gubar, Susan,1944- contributor
Harris, Janice H. contributor
Hatfield, Charles contributor
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864 author
Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961 author
Hempel, Amy author
Henry, O.,1862-1910 author
Homes, A. M. author
Hurston, Zora Neale author
Irving, Washington,1783-1859 author
Jackson, Shirley,1916-1965 author
James, Henry,1843-1916 author
Janouch, Gustav contributor
Jen, Gish author
Jenks, Tom contributor
Jewett, Sarah Orne,1849-1909 author
Jin, Ha author
Johnson, Denis author
Jones, Edward P. author
Jones, Thom author
Joyce, James,1882-1941 author
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924 author
Keret, Etgar,1967- author
Kincaid, Jamaica author
Kinsella, W. P. author
Kupperman, Michael contributor
Lahiri, Jhumpa author
Lamott, Anne contributor
Lawrence, D. H.1885-1930 author
Lawson, Henry author
Le Guin, Ursula K.,1929- author
Lessing, Doris,1919-2013 author
Lewis, Simon contributor
London, Jack,1876-1916 author
Mairowitz, David Zane,1943- contributor
Mansfield, Katherine,1888-1923 author
Mason, Bobbie Ann author
Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893 author
McClane, Kenneth A. contributor
McCloud, Scott contributor
McFarland, Dorothy Tuck,1938- contributor
Melville, Herman,1819-1891 author
Miller, J. Hillis1928- contributor
Millhauser, Steven author
Moody, Rick author
Moore, Lorrie author
Moser, Don contributor
Mueenuddin, Daniyal author
Mukherjee, Bharati author
Munro, Alice,1931- author
Murakami, Haruki,1949- author
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,1899-1977 contributor
Nachtigal, Johann Karl Christoph,1753-1819 contributor
O'Brien, Tim,1946- author
O'Connor, Flannery author
O'Connor, Frank author
Oates, Joyce Carol,1938- author
Olsen, Tillie author
Ozick, Cynthia author
Palahniuk, Chuck author
Paley, Grace author
Parini, Jay contributor
Paz, Octavio,1914-1998 author
Phillips, Jayne Anne,1952- author
Plum, Sydney contributor
Poe, Edgar Allan,1809-1849 author
Porter, Katherine Anne,1890-1980 author
Proulx, Annie author
Roth, Philip author
Sacco, Joe author
Said, Edward W. contributor
Saki,1870-1916 author
Saltzman, Arthur M. contributor
Satrapi, Marjane,1969- author
Saunders, George author
Scott, A. O. contributor
Shields, Carol author
Showalter, Elaine contributor
Silko, Leslie Marmon,1948- author
Simpson, Helen author
Smith, Zadie author
Sontag, Susan,1933-2004 author
Spiegelman, Art author
Steinbeck, John,1902-1968 author
Tan, Amy author
Tolstoy, Leo,graf,1828-1910 author
Toomer, Jean,1894-1967 author
Trilling, Lionel,1905-1975 contributor
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 author
Updike, John author
Urquhart, Jane author
Viramontes, Helena María,1954- author
Vonnegut, Kurt author
Walker, Alice,1944- author
Wallace, David Foster author
Warren, Robert Penn,1905-1989 contributor
Watson, Brad author
Welty, Eudora,1909-2001 author
Wharton, Edith,1862-1937 author
Wideman, John Edgar author
Williams, William Carlos,1883-1963 author
Wolff, Tobias,1945- author
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941 author
Wright, Richard,1908-1960 author
Yamamoto, Hisaye author
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Compact 8th ed.
Introduction: Story and its writer
Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe
Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie
Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende
Hands / Sherwood Anderson
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks
Snow / Ann Beattie
From Fun Home: Old father, old artificer / Alison Bechdel
The rememberer / Aimee Bender
Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges
August 2026: There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury
Cathedral; A small, good thing ; What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver
Paul's case / Willa Carter
Water names / Lan Samantha Chang
Swimmer / John Cheever
Darling / Anton Chekhov
Désiré́e's baby; Story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
Open boat / Stephen Crane
How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich
Rose for Emily; That evening sun / William Faulkner
Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Homage / Nadine Gordimer
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
Church cancels cow / Amy Hempel
Things you should know / A. M. Homes
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
Lottery / Shirley Jackson
Who's Irish? / Gish Jen
White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Bad neighbors / Edward P. Jones
Araby; Dead / James Joyce
Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
Nawabdin electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro
Where are you going, where you have been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Everything that rises must converge; Good country people; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Brownies / ZZ Packer
Conversation with my father / Grace Paley
Cask of Amontillado; Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Job history / Annie Proulx
From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco
From Persepolis : The veil / Marjane Satrapi
Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
Homework / Helen Simpson
Prisoner on the hell planet: a case history / Art Spiegelman
Two kinds / Amy Tan
Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
A&P / John Updike
The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Good people / David Foster Wallace
Worn path / Eudora Welty
Say yes / Tobias Wolf
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe
Superman and me / Sherman Alexie
Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson
Reading blind / Margaret Atwood
Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin
Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks
Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges
Translating Kafka / Ann Charters
Why I write short stories / John Cheever
Technique in writing the short story / Anton Chekhov
How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin
Sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane
A huger artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz
Influence of folklore on ''Battle royal'' / Ralph Ellison
Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner
Feminist reading of Gilman's ''Yellow wallpaper'' / Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar
Why I wrote ''Yellow wallpaper''; Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson
On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid
Finding your voice / Anne Lamott
On Tim O'Brien's ''Things they carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason
Writer's goal / Guy de Maupassant
Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville
How I write short stories / Alice Munro
Stories that define me: Making of a writer; Smooth talk: Short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates
Alpha company / Tim O'Brien
Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley
Importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe
Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko
In the canon, for all the wrong reasons / Amy Tan
Chekhov's intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy
Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker
Some remarks on Kafka's funnieness from which probably not enough has been removed / David Foster Wallace
Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / Eudora Welty
Reading fiction / Richard Wright
Casebooks: Casebook one: Raymond Carver: One writing; Creative writing 101; The bath / Raymond Carver
Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks
Reading of ''What we talk about when we talk about love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman
Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott
Casebook two: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies": My two lives / Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn
Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis
Casebook three: Flannery O'Connor: From ''Letters 1954-55''; Writing short stories; Reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor
Rhetorical reading of O'Connor's ''Everything that rises must converge'' / Wayne C. Booth
On ''Good country people'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland
Casebook four: Graphic storytelling: What the little old ladies feel / Alison Bechdel
From "Alternative comics: toward the habit of questioning" / Charles Hatfield
Are comics serious literature / Michael Kupperman
From understanding comics: Invisible art / Scott McCloud
Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum
Some reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco / Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading short stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'')
Elements of fiction
Brief history of the short story
Writing about short stories
Literary theory and critical perspectives
Glossary of literary terms
Chronological listing of authors' stories
Chronological listing of authors and stories
Index of authors and titles.
From the Book - Fifth edition.
Introduction: the story and its writer
Part One: Stories
Part Two: Commentaries
Part Three: Casebooks
Raymond Carver
Sandra Cisneros
Flannery O'Connor
Fiction into film
Part Four: Appendices
A brief history of the short story
The elements of fiction
Writing about short stories
Glossary of literary terms
Chronological listing of authors and stories
Short stories on film and video.
From the Book - 4th ed.
Stories
Commentaries
Casebooks
Raymond Carver
Flannery O'Connor
Leslie Marmon Silko
Appendices.
From the Book - Eighth edition.
Introduction: Story and Its Writer
Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe
Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken
In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie
Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende
Hands / Sherwood Anderson
Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin
Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks
San Francisco / Lynda Barry
Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme
Snow / Ann Beattie
From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel
Rememberer / Aimee Bender
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski
Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle
August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury
Guest / Albert Camus
Werewolf / Angela Carter
Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver
Paul's Case / Willa Carter
Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang
Swimmer / John Cheever
Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov
Désiréé's Baby; Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
Continuity of Parks / Julio Cortazar
Open Boat / Stephen Crane
Night Women / Edwidge Danticat
Television / Lydia Davis
How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie / Junot Diaz
Battle Royal / Ralph Ellison
Red Convertible / Louise Erdrich
Rose for Emily ; That Evening Sun / William Faulkner
Babylon Revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Look on the Bright Side / Dagoberto Gilb
Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Overcoat / Nikolai Gogol
Homage / Nadine Gordimer
Bride / Christine Granados
Rappaccini's Daughter ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills Like White Elephants / Ernest Hemingway
Church Cancels Cow ; In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried / Amy Hempel
Things You Should Know / A.M. Homes
Gilded Six-Bits ; Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving
Lottery / Shirley Jackson
Real Thing / Henry James
Who's Irish? / Gish Jen
White Heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Saboteur / Ha Jin
Dirty Wedding / Denis Johnson
Bad Neighbors / Edward P. Jones
Pugilist at Rest / Thom Jones
Araby; Dead / James Joyce
Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Not Human Beings / Etgar Keret
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa / W.P. Kinsella
Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Odour of Chrysanthemums ; Rocking-Horse Winner / D.H. Lawrence
Drover's Wife / Henry Lawson
Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
Woman on a Roof / Doris Lessing
Build a Fire / Jack London
Fly ; Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville
Invasion from Outer Space / Steven Millhauser
Videos of the Dead / Rick Moody
How to Become a Writer / Lorrie Moore
Nawabdin Electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin
Management of Grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Dance of the Happy Shades / Alice Munro
Toys of Peace / Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Ice Man / Haruki Murakami
Lady with the Pet Dog ; Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien
Everything That Rises Must Converge; Good Country People; Good Man Is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the Nation / Frank O'Connor
I Stand Here Ironing / Tillie Olsen
Shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Brownies / ZZ Packer
Escort / Chuck Palahniuk
Conversation with My Father ; Mother / Grace Paley
My Life with the Wave / Octavio Paz
Stars / Jayne Anne Phillips
Cask of Amontillado; Fall of the House of Usher ; Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Gift of the Magi / William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
Job History / Annie Proulx
Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco
From Persepolis : The Veil / Marjane Satrapi
Brad Carrigan, American / George Saunders
Love So Fleeting, Love So Fine / Carol Shields
Yellow Woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
Homework / Helen Simpson
Girl with Bangs / Zadie Smith
Way We Live Now / Susan Sontag
Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History / Art Spiegelman
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Two Kinds / Amy Tan
Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer
A & P / John Updike
Dreams / Jane Urquhart
Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everyday Use / Alice Walker
Good People / David Foster Wallace
Seeing Eye / Brad Watson
Why I L
Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe
Superman and Me / Sherman Alexie
Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman / Paula Gunn Allen
Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story / Sherwood Anderson
Reading Blind / Margaret Atwood
Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks
Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges
Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and "Lady with the Dog" / Matthew C. Brennan
Translating Kafka / Ann Charters
Why I Write Short Stories / John Cheever
Technique in Writing the Short Story / Anton Chekhov
How I Stumbled Upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin
Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane
Hunger Artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz
On the Short, Short Story / Lydia Davis
Influence of Folklore on ''Battle Royal'' / Ralph Ellison
Biographical Perspective on Joyce's "Dead" / Richard Ellmann
Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner
Why We Like Chekhov / Richard Ford
Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future / Carlos Fuentes
On Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme / Vivian Gornick
Levels of Meaning in Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner" / Janice H. Harris
How It Feels to Be Colored Me ; What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston
Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson
Genesis of "Real Thing" / Henry James
Kafka's View of "Metamorphosis" / Gustav Janouch
Looking Back on Girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett
On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid
Finding Your Voice / Anne Lamott
Scapegoat in Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
Letter to the Editor on "To Build a Fire" / Jack London
Review of Woolf's "Kew Gardens" / Katherine Mansfield
On Tim O'Brien's ''Things They Carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason
Writer's Goal / Guy de Maupassant
Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville
Deconstructive Reading on Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" / J. Hillis Miller
How I write Short Stories / Alice Munro
On Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Haruki Murakami
Gogol's Genius in "Overcoat" ; Reading of Chekhov's "Lady with the Little Dog" / Vladimir Nabokov
Peter Klaus the Goatherd / J.C.C. Nachtigal
Alpha Company / Tim O'Brien
Nearest Thing to Lyric Poetry Is the Short Story ; Style and Form in Joyce's "Dead" / Frank O'Connor
Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley
Lawrence's and Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums" / Jay Parini
Guided Tours of Time and Death / Jayne Anne Phillips
Inspiration? Head Down the Back Road, and Stop for the Yard Sales / Annie Proulx
Past and the Present: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography / Edward W. Said
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko
Writing as Reading / Susan Sontag
In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons / Amy Tan
Chekhov's Intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy
Greatness of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" / Lionel Trilling
Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View / Alice Walker
Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed / David Foster Wallace
Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead? / Eudora Welty
Reading Fiction / Richard Wright.
Casebooks: Casebook One: James Baldwin's "Sonny blues:" Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin
Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in "Sonny's Blues" / Keith E. Byerman
"Sonny Blues" Saved My Life / Kenneth A. McClane
Casebook Two: Raymond Carver: On Writing; Creative Writing 101; Bath / Raymond Carver
Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks
Reading of ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman
Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott
Casebook Three: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow wallpaper:" Why I Wrote "Yellow wallpaper ; Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Feminist Reading of Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper" / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
On "Yellow Wallpaper" / Elaine Showalter
Casebook Four: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies:" My Two Lives / Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn
Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis
Casebook Five: Flannery O'Connor: From Letters, 1954-55 ; Writing Short Stories; Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor
Parables of Flannery O'Connor / Joyce Carol Oates
Rhetorical Reading of O'Connor's ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' / Wayne C. Booth
On ''Good Country People'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland
Casebook Six: Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?:" Stories That Define Me: Making of a Writer ; Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film / Joyce Carol Oates
Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action / Don Moser
Casebook Seven: Edgar Allan Poe: Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale / Edgar Allan Poe
On "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Cask of Amontillado" / D.H. Lawrence
New Critical Reading of "Fall of the House of Usher" / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
Under the Covers with Fortunato and Montresor / Jan Burke
Fall of the House of Usher / Will Eisner
Casebook Eight: Graphic Storytelling: What the Little Old Ladies Feel / Alison Bechdel
From "Alternative Comics: Toward the Habit of Questioning" / Charles Hatfield
Are Comics Serious Literature / Michael Kupperman
From Understanding Comics: Invisible Art / Scott McCloud
Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum
Some Reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco
Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading Short Stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'')
Elements of Fiction
Brief History of the Short Story
Writing about Short Stories
Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives
Glossary of Literary Terms
Chronological Listing of Authors' Stories
Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories
Index of Authors and Titles.
Subjects
Subjects
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