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Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (Second Edition) ed. R. V. Cassill & Joyce Carol Oates (W.W. Norton & Company, October 17, 1997, 978-0-393-96833-0, 576pp, tp, an)
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· Introduction · R. V. Cassill · in

· Barcelona · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker February 27 1984

· The Rudy Elmenhurst Story · Julia Alvarez · ss How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books, 1991

· The Man from Mars · Margaret Atwood · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1977

· The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker March 6 1965

· Snow · Charles Baxter · ss The New Yorker December 19 1988

· The Cinderella Waltz · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker January 29 1979

· Descent of Man · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #69, Spring 1977

· Blazo · Ron Carlson · ss Plan B for the Middle Class by Ron Carlson, Norton, 1992

· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981

· One Holy Night · Sandra Cisneros · ss The Village Voice Literary Supplement November 1 1988

· The Babysitter · Robert Coover · nv Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover, E.P. Dutton, 1969

· Murphy’s Xmas · Mark Costello · ss Transatlantic Review #27, Winter 1967/1968

· A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv Black Warrior Review Spring 1983

· Pet Milk · Stuart Dybek · ss The New Yorker August 13 1984

· Saint Marie · Louise Erdrich · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1984

· Rock Springs · Richard Ford · nv Esquire February 1982

· A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971

· An Evening Performance · George Garrett · ss Mademoiselle April 1959

· In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William H. Gass · nv New American Review #1, September 1967

· The Wizard · C. S. Godshalk · ss Agni 1989

· Putting a Child to Bed · Tom Hawkins · ss (r)

· In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried · Amy Hempel · ss TriQuarterly #56, Winter 1983

· Cowboys Are My Weakness · Pam Houston · ss Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston, Washington Square Press, 1992

· Kwoon · Charles Johnson · ss Playboy December 1991

· The Black Lights · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker October 12 1992

· Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978

· Follow the Eagle · William Kotzwinkle · ss Redbook April 1971

· The New Atlantis · Ursula K. Le Guin · na The New Atlantis ed. Robert Silverberg, Hawthorne, 1975

· No Trace · David Madden · nv The Southern Review Winter 1970

· Love Life · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 29 1984

· Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984

· The Tenant · Bharati Mukherjee · ss The Literary Review 1986

· Wild Swans · Alice Munro · ss Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro, The Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1978

· Bad Girls · Joyce Carol Oates · nv (r)

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity · Jonathan Penner · ss (r)

· Souvenir · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips, Delacorte Press, 1979

· Coach · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker September 14 1981

· Rules of the Game · Amy Tan · ss Seventeen November 1986

· A Death in the Family · Hunter S. Thompson · ss (r)

· The Other · John Updike · ss The New Yorker August 15 1983

· Going to Russia · Guy Vanderhaeghe · ss Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Macmillan of Canada, 1982

· Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973

· Taking Care · Joy Williams · ss Taking Care by Joy Williams, Random House, 1982

· In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37, Spring 1980

· Biographical Sketches · [uncredited] · bg

Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Sixth Edition ed. R. V. Cassill & Richard Bausch (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000, 0-393-97508-8, $51.15, tp, an)
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· Preface · [uncredited] · pr

· Preface to the Sixth Edition · [uncredited] · pr

· Talking about Fiction · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· Character and Setting · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· Action, Plot, and Complication · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· Point of View · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· Indirection · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· The Part and the Whole · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· Coherence · [uncredited] · ar (r)

· General Questions · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919

· Death by Landscape · Margaret Atwood · ss Saturday Night July 1989

· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957

· Gorilla, My Love · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara, Random House, 1972

· The Littoral Zone · Andrea Barrett · ss Story Spring 1993

· Me and Miss Mandible · Donald Barthelme · ss Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme, Little Brown, 1964

· The Disappeared · Charles Baxter · ss Michigan Quarterly Review 1990

· Snow · Ann Beattie · ss (r)

· Witness · Madison Smartt Bell · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1990

· Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? · Gina Berriault · ss Ploughshares Winter 1995/1996

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· Silver Water · Amy Bloom · ss Story Autumn 1991

· Pierre Menard, Author of the “Quixote” · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote”, Sur, May 1939).

· The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made”

· Pagan Night · Kate Braverman · ss Zyzzyva 1994

· The Gentleman from San Francisco · Ivan Bunin · nv The Dial January 1922

· On “The Gentleman from San Francisco” · Gina Berriault · as

· Bread · Frederick Busch · ss (r)

· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981

· The Rationing of Love · R. V. Cassill · ss New American Review #3, April 1968

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· On “Paul’s Case” · Andrea Barrett · as

· The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947

· The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· Gusev · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· On “Gusev” · Richard Bausch · as

· The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”

· The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)

· On “Heart of Darkness” · Barry Hannah · as

· The Babysitter · Robert Coover · nv Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover, E.P. Dutton, 1969

· A Continuity of Parks · Julio Cortázar · vi End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, Pantheon Books, 1967; dated 1956.

· The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897

· On “The Open Boat” · Allan Gurganus · as

· The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898

· Open Winter · H. L. Davis · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 6 1939

· Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · nv Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942

· On “Sorrow-Acre” · Tobias Wolf · as

· Public Appearances · Susan Dodd · ss (r)

· The Intruder · Andre Dubus · ss (r)

· We Didn’t · Stuart Dybek · ss Antæus #70, Spring 1993

· King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944

· Matchimanito · Louise Erdrich · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1988

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· The Bear · William Faulkner · na The Saturday Evening Post May 9 1942

· Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones by Timothy Findley, Penguin Books Canada, 1988

· Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931

· Great Falls · Richard Ford · ss Granta #21, Spring 1987

· The Road from Colonus · E. M. Forster · ss The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories by E. M. Forster, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911

· A New England Nun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891

· Bernadette · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker January 12 1957

· The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss Playboy November 1971
translated from the Spanish.

· Wounded Soldier · George Garrett · ss (r)

· On “Wounded Soldier” · Madison Smartt Bell · as

· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· A Soldier’s Embrace · Nadine Gordimer · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1976

· Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt · William Goyen · ss Ghost and Flesh by William Goyen, Random House, 1952

· On “Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt” · George Garrett · as

· Nativity, Caucasian · Allan Gurganus · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1990

· Testimony of Pilot · Barry Hannah · nv Airships by Barry Hannah, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978

· Wedding Night · Tom Hawkins · vi Ploughshares Fall 1983

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843

· Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927

· On “Hills Like White Elephants” · Frederick Busch · as

· In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried · Amy Hempel · ss TriQuarterly #56, Winter 1983

· The Conscience of the Court · Zora Neale Hurston · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 18 1950

· The Witch · Shirley Jackson · ss The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Farrar Strauss, 1949

· Greville Fane · Henry James · ss The Illustrated London News September 17 1892 (+1)

· Passion · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · ss (r)

· Moving Pictures · Charles Johnson · ss New American Review September 1985

· A New Man · Edward P. Jones · ss (r)

· The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker December 2 1991

· Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· A Little Cloud · James Joyce · ss The Smart Set May 1915

· The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937
translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15).

· A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss (r)

· Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978

· The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888

· Jewel of the Moon · William Kotzwinkle · ss Jewel of the Moon by William Kotzwinkle, Putnam, 1985

· My Life as a Mollusk · Patricia Landers · ss (r)

· The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922

· The Coggios · Sharyn Layfield · ss Ploughshares Fall/Winter 1981

· Gravity · David Leavitt · ss A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt, Viking, 1990

· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973

· To Room Nineteen · Doris Lessing · nv A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963

· Brief Lives in California · John L’Heureux · ss Fiction v6 #2, 1980

· My Father’s Chinese Wives · Sandra Tsing Loh · ss (r)

· The Chevigny Man · Robie Macauley · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1955

· Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955

· Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · na (r)
translated from the German (“Der Tod in Venedig”, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912).

· Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss The English Review August 1918

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· Boule de Suif · Guy de Maupassant · nv The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “Ball-of-Fat”
translated from the French (“Boule de suif”, Les Soirées de Médan, 1880).

· The Thistles in Sweden · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker June 21 1976

· On “The Thistles in Sweden” · Charles Baxter · as

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988

· On “The Management of Grief” · Richard Ford · as

· Royal Beatings · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker March 14 1977

· Prue · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker March 30 1981

· Signs and Symbols · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The New Yorker May 15 1948, as “Symbols and Signs”

· The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien · Nieh Hua-ling · ss (r)

· How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again · Joyce Carol Oates · ss TriQuarterly #15, Spring 1969

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953

· On “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Lee Smith · as

· Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961

· Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931

· On “Guests of the Nation” · Edward P. Jones · as

· Tell Me a Riddle · Tillie Olsen · nv New World Writing #16 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960

· War · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r)

· The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

· The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844

· Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930

· The Fall · V. S. Pritchett · ss The New Yorker May 28 1960

· The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958

· Nadine at 35: A Synopsis · Jo Sapp · vi North American Review September 1981

· The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire January 1941

· Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)

· Intensive Care · Lee Smith · ss Me and My Baby View the Eclipse by Lee Smith, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990

· In the Zoo · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker September 19 1953

· On “In the Zoo” · R. V. Cassill · as

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· Rules of the Game · Amy Tan · ss Seventeen November 1986

· A Spinster’s Tale · Peter Taylor · nv The Southern Review Autumn 1940

· On “A Spinster’s Tale” · Ann Beattie · as

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939

· The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985

· Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973

· Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · nv Cummington Press, 1946

· Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941

· A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941

· On “A Worn Path” · Susan Dodd · as

· The Man Who Loved Levittown · W. D. Wetherell · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1979

· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933

· In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37, Spring 1980

· Kew Gardens · Virginia Woolf · ss May 12 1919

· The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Writing Papers about Fiction · Richard Bausch · ar (r)

· When You Write about Fiction · R. V. Cassill · ar (r)

· Writing Fiction · R. V. Cassill · ar (r)

· Writers on Writing · R. V. Cassill · ar (r)

· Why Do You Write? · Margaret Atwood · ar (r)

· What Is It I Think I’m Doing Anyhow? · Toni Cade Bambara · ar (r)

· On Writing · Raymond Carver · ar (r)

· What Happened · John Cheever · ar (r)

· Selected Letters · Anton Chekhov · lt (r)

· A Familiar Preface · Joseph Conrad · ar (r)

· An Interview · Ralph Ellison · iv (r)

· Becoming a Writer · Gail Godwin · ar (r)

· An Interview · Ernest Hemingway · iv (r)

· The Art of Fiction · Henry James · ar Longman’s Magazine September 1884

· Why the Novel Matters · D. H. Lawrence · ar (r)

· An Interview · Doris Lessing · iv (r)

· The Novel · Guy de Maupassant · ar (r)

· A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman · Bharati Mukherjee · ar (r)

· What Is Real? · Alice Munro · ar Making It New ed. John Metcalf, Methuen, 1982

· The Nature and Aim of Fiction · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)

· Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · br (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]

· An Interview · Katherine Anne Porter · iv (r)

· An Interview · James Thurber · iv (r)

· What Is Art? · Leo Tolstoy · ar (r)

· An Interview · Eudora Welty · iv (r)

· Glossary of Critical Terms · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· Index of Titles · [uncredited] · ix (r)

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