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Last Door to Aiya ed. Mirra Ginsburg (S.G. Phillips, 1968, LC:68-16347, $4.95, 192pp, hc, an, cover by H. Lawrence Hoffman) 7 · Editor’s Introduction · Mirra Ginsburg · in 11 · The World in Which I Disappeared · Anatoly Dnieprov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss International Science Fiction June 1968 translated from the Russian (“Mir, v kotorom ya ischez”, Znanie-Sila February 1961). 27 · The New Signal Station · Sever Gansovsky; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“Novaya signal’naya”, 1963). 55 · The Golden Lotus, A Legend · M. Greshnov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Lotos zolotoy”, 1960). 74 · My Colleague · Vladimir Grigoriev; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Kollega—ya nazval ego tak”, 1964). 84 · Vanya · Vladimir Grigoriev; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“A mogla by i byt’…”, 1963). 92 · Last Door to Aiya · Yeremey Parnov & Mikhail Yemtsev; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv International Science Fiction June 1968, as “The Last Door” translated from the Russian (“Poslednyaya dver’!”, Fantastika, 1964 god ed. G. Smirnov, 1964). 131 · Homer’s Secret · Alexander Poleshchuk; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Tayna Gomera”, 1963). 145 · The White Cone of the Alaid · Arkady & Boris Strugatsky; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“Belyy konus Alaida”, 1959). 168 · Out in Space · Ilya Varshavsky; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“V kosmose”, 1963).

The Ultimate Threshold ed. Mirra Ginsburg (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, June 1970, LC:79-80362, $5.95, xi+244pp, hc, oa)     “A Collection of the Finest in Soviet Science Fiction”. Edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg. vii · Preface · Mirra Ginsburg · pr 1 · Icarus and Daedalus · Henrik Altov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Ikar i Dedal”, 1958). 9 · Erem · Gleb Anfilov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“EREM”, 1962). 15 · Formula for Immortality · Anatoly Dnieprov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“Formula bessmertiya”, 1962). 47 · When Questions Are Asked · Anatoly Dnieprov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Kogda zadayut voprosy…”, 1962). 62 · The Horn of Plenty · Vladimir Grigoriev; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss Galaxy Science Fiction December 1969 translated from the Russian (“Rog izobiliya”, 1964). 80 · The Useless Planet · Olga Larionova; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“Planeta, kotoraya nichego ne mozhet dat’”, 1967). 122 · The Ultimate Threshold · Herman Maximov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Posledniy porog”, 1965). 137 · Invasion · Roman Podolny; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Nashestviye”, 1966). 141 · When You Return · Igor Rosokhovatsky; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“Kakim ty vernyosh’sya”, 1966). 163 · “One Less” · Igor Rosokhovatsky; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Odnim men’she”, 1966). 168 · “We Played Under Your Window” · Vladimir Shcherbakov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“My igrali pod tvoim oknom…”, 1966). 182 · Preliminary Research · Ilya Varshavsky; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss translated from the Russian (“Predvaritel’nye izyskaniya”, 1965). 200 · He Who Leaves No Trace · Mikhail Yemtsev & Yeremey Parnov; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · nv translated from the Russian (“Ne ostavlyayushchiy sleda”, 1962).

An Introduction to Fiction ed. Dana Gioia & X. J. Kennedy--- see under X. J. Kennedy.

The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context ed. Dana Gioia & R. S. Gwynn (Longman US, December 2000, 0-801-33159-5, $48.00, xxv+1924pp, tp, an) xvii · Preface · Dana Gioia & R. S. Gwynn · pr xxv · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 1 · I. Introduction 3 · The Art of the Short Story · [uncredited] · ar 9 · II. Origins of the Short Story 11 · Myth 13 · Pygmalion and Galatea · Ovid · ss (r) from Ovid’s Metamorphosis as retold by Edith Hamilton. 14 · How the Snake Got Poison · [uncredited] · ss (r) collected by Zora Neale Hurston. 15 · Fable 16 · The North Wind and the Sun · Aesop · ss (r) 17 · The Camel and His Friends (from the Panchatantra) · Bidpai · ss (r) 18 · Parable 19 · Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss (r) 20 · The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss from The King James Bible (r); from Luke 15:11-32. 21 · Folk Tale 22 · The Three Feathers · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r) from German Folk Tales. 25 · The Donkey · [uncredited] · ss from The Thousand and One Nights (r) 26 · Legend 27 · St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio · Brother Ugolino Di Monte · ss (r) 30 · The Careless Rabbi · Martin Buber · vi The Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Martin Buber, Horizon Press, 1956 31 · Novella or Nouvelle 32 · The Pot of Basil · Giovanni Boccaccio · ss from The Decameron (r) translated from the Italian (Decamerone, 1353). 35 · The One-Eyed Servant and His Wife · Margarite de Navarre · ss from The Heptameron (r) 39 · III. Stories 42 · Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss (r) 46 · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss (r) 48 · Author’s Perspective: Achebe on Modern Africa as the Crossroads of Culture · Chinua Achebe · ar (r) 51 · The Egg · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial March 1920, as “The Triumph of the Egg” 58 · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916 62 · Author’s Perspective: Anderson on Words Not Plot Give Form to a Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar (r) 65 · The Prophecy · Anjana Appachana · ss (r) 78 · Vegetable Love · Max Apple · ss (r) 90 · Happy Endings · Margaret Atwood · ss The Humanist September/October 1987 92 · Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r) 99 · Author’s Perspective: Atwood on the Canadian Identity · Margaret Atwood · ar (r) 102 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957 124 · Author’s Perspective: Baldwin on Race and the African-American Writer · James Baldwin · ar (r) 129 · Time of Passage · J. G. Ballard · ss Science Fantasy #63, February 1964 139 · Night-Sea Journey · John Barth · ss Esquire June 1966 147 · The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker March 6 1965 153 · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985 158 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890 166 · Action Will Be Taken · Heinrich Böll; translated by Leila Vennewitz · ss Eighteen Stories by Heinrich Böll, McGraw-Hill, 1966 translated from the German. 172 · The Library of Babel · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r) translated from the Spanish (“La biblioteca de Babel”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941). 177 · The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r) translated from the Spanish (“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941). 184 · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss The New Yorker October 23 1971 translated from the Spanish (“El evangelio según Marcos”, La Nación, August 1970). 188 · Author’s Perspective: Borges on Literature As Experience · Jorge Luís Borges · ar (r) 191 · Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982 200 · The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made” 212 · Preparation · Robert Olen Butler · ss (r) 220 · Adam, One Afternoon · Italo Calvino · ss (r) translated from the Italian (“Un pomeriggio, Adamo”, 1949). 227 · Author’s Perspective: Calvino on Myth Is the Hidden Part of Every Story · Italo Calvino · ar (r) 230 · The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r) 239 · Author’s Perspective: Camus on Revolution and Repression in Algeria · Albert Camus · ar (r) 242 · Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss Selected Writings of Truman Capote by Truman Capote, Random House, 1963 254 · Author’s Perspective: Capote on the Technique of the Short Story · Truman Capote · ar (r) 257 · The Loves of Lady Purple · Angela Carter · ss Fireworks by Angela Carter, Quartet Books, 1974 266 · Author’s Perspective: Carter on the Fairy Tale · Angela Carter · ar (r) 269 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 280 · A Small Good Thing · Raymond Carver · ss Ploughshares Summer/Fall 1982 296 · What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981 305 · Author’s Perspective: Carver on “Commonplace but Precise Language” · Raymond Carver · ar (r) 307 · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905 321 · Author’s Perspective: Cather on Art as the Process of Simplification · Willa Cather · ar (r) 323 · Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938 358 · Author’s Perspective: Chandler on Crime Fiction · Raymond Chandler · ar (r) 361 · Ancestors · Fred Chappell · ss (r) 380 · The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker April 10 1954 390 · The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964 398 · Author’s Perspective: Cheever on Why I Write Short Stories · John Cheever · ar (r) 402 · The Lady with the Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 414 · Misery · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 418 · An Upheaval · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 423 · Author’s Perspective: Chekhov on Natural Description and “The Center of Gravity” · Anton Chekhov · ar (r) 426 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 430 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” 432 · Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991 436 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 442 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1) 470 · Author’s Perspective: Conrad on the Condition of Art · Joseph Conrad · ar (r) 473 · Blow-up · Julio Cortázar; translated by Paul Blackburn · ss End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, Pantheon Books, 1967 translated from the Spanish. 484 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898 492 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897 511 · Sorrow-Acre · Isak Dinesen · nv Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942 534 · The Man Who Read a Book · Thomas Disch · ss The Hudson Review Spring 1994 543 · Author’s Perspective: Disch on Science Fiction, Youth Culture, and the Future · Thomas Disch · ar (r) 547 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” 566 · A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv Black Warrior Review Spring 1983 581 · Author’s Perspective: Dubus on Religious Fiction · Andre Dubus · ar (r) 583 · A Party Down at the Square · Ralph Ellison · ss Esquire January 1997 587 · Author’s Perspective: Ellison on Race and Fiction · Ralph Ellison · ar (r) 590 · The Red Convertible · Louise Erdrich · ss Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984 598 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 611 · Red Leaves · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 25 1930 627 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 634 · Author’s Perspective: Faulkner on “The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself” · William Faulkner · ar (r) 636 · The Street-Sweeping Show · Feng Jicai · ss (r) 640 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 655 · Author’s Perspective: Fitzgerald on from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ar (r) 658 · A Simple Heart · Gustave Flaubert · nv Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, 1877 translated from the French (“Un coeur simple”, Trois contes, G. Charpentier, 1877). 679 · Author’s Perspective: Flaubert on the Labor of Style · Gustave Flaubert · ar (r) 681 · The Doll Queen · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Margaret S. Peden · ss Antæus #13/14, Spring/Summer 1974 translated from the Spanish (1969). 692 · Author’s Perspective: Fuentes on Mexico, the United States, and the Multicultural Future · Carlos Fuentes · ar (r) 694 · 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss (r) 701 · Artificial Roses · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss (r) 704 · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971 710 · Died and Gone to Vegas · Tim Gautreaux · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1995 725 · Look on the Bright Side · Dagoberto Gilb · ss (r) 735 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 748 · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r) translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842). 770 · A Company of Laughing Faces · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r) 781 · Author’s Perspective: Gordimer on How the Short Story Differs from the Novel · Nadine Gordimer · ar (r) 784 · The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869 792 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” 801 · The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843 813 · Author’s Perspective: Hawthorne on the Public Failure of His Early Stories · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ar (r) 816 · Big Two-Hearted River, Part I and Part II · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Spring 1925 829 · Author’s Perspective: Hemingway on One True Sentence · Ernest Hemingway · ar (r) 831 · The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 15 1905 837 · The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933 845 · Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926 856 · A Family Supper · Kazuo Ishiguro · ss Esquire March 1990 865 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 873 · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892 891 · Author’s Perspective: James on the Mirror of a Consciousness · Henry James · ar (r) 893 · In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986 905 · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 913 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 917 · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 947 · Eveline · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 950 · Author’s Perspective: Joyce on Epiphanies · James Joyce · ar (r) 953 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi (r) 954 · A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka · ss (r) 960 · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937 translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15). 993 · Author’s Perspective: Kafka on Discussing “The Metamorphosis” · Franz Kafka · ar (r) 996 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 999 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 1016 · Let the Old Dead Make Room · Milan Kundera · ss Esquire April 1974 1030 · Odour of Chrysanthemums · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review June 1911 1044 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926 1055 · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922 1067 · Author’s Perspective: Lawrence: The Novel Is the Bright Book of Life · D. H. Lawrence · ar (r) 1070 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973 1074 · Author’s Perspective: Le Guin: On “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r) 1077 · The Day Stalin Died · Doris Lessing · ss (r) 1086 · A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r) 1094 · Love · Clarice Lispector · ss (r) 1102 · Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss The New Yorker August 21 1989 1114 · Author’s Perspective: Lombreglia on Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar (r) 1117 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 1128 · A Little Incident · Lu Xun · ss (r) 1132 · Midnight Mass · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; translated by William L. Grossman & Helen Caldwell · ss 1963 1138 · Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955 1147 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 1150 · Bliss · Katherine Mansfield · ss The English Review August 1918 1159 · The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2) 1169 · Author’s Perspective: Mansfield on “The Garden-Party” · Katherine Mansfield · ar (r) 1172 · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980 1184 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie · ss The House of Madame Tellier by Guy de Maupassant, Everyman's Library, 1934 translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). 1190 · Mother Savage · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La mère Sauvage”, Le Gaulois, March 3, 1884). 1195 · Author’s Perspective: Maupassant: The Realist Method · Guy de Maupassant · ar (r) 1198 · Benito Cereno · Herman Melville · na Putnam’s Monthly October 1855 (+2) 1255 · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984 1263 · Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire April 1966 1282 · How to Become a Writer · Lorrie Moore · ss (r) 1289 · The Management of Grief · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Fiction Network 1988 1303 · How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss (r) · Wild Swans · Alice Munro · ss Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro, The Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1978 1315 · Author’s Perspective: Munro: How I Write Short Stories · Alice Munro · ar (r) 1318 · Cloud, Castle, Lake · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1941 1325 · Trail of the Green Blazer · R. K. Narayan · ss Lawley Road by R. K. Narayan, Indian Thought, 1956 1330 · In the Region of Ice · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1966 1342 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 1354 · Author’s Perspective: Oates: Productivity and the Critics · Joyce Carol Oates · ar (r) 1356 · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 1370 · Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955 1384 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 1395 · Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964 1410 · Author’s Perspective: O’Connor: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r) 1414 · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931 1424 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe” 1429 · Author’s Perspective: Olsen: Women’s Silence · Tillie Olsen · ar (r) 1432 · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971 1438 · My Life with the Wave · Octavio Paz · ss (r) 1443 · Blind Girls · Jayne Anne Phillips · vi Sweethearts by Jayne Anne Phillips, Truck Press, 1976 1445 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 1458 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 1471 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 1475 · Author’s Perspective: Poe: The Tale and Its Effect · Edgar Allan Poe · ar (r) 1477 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929 1483 · Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930 1494 · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958 1507 · The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Winter/Spring 1969, as by Leslie Chapman 1512 · Inspector Maigret Pursues [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by J. E. Malcolm · ss Argosy (UK) January 1962, as “The Man on the Run” translated from the French “L’Homme dans la rue”, Maigret et les petits cochons sans queue, Presses de la Cité, 1950). 1523 · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r) 1533 · Author’s Perspective: Singer on the Character of Gimpel · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar (r) · Bang-Bang You’re Dead · Muriel Spark · nv Bang-Bang You’re Dead and Other Stories by Muriel Spark, Granada, 1982 1536 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 1545 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3) 1565 · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r) story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday. 1569 · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r) 1583 · Author’s Perspective: Tan: Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar (r) · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939 1585 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r) 1624 · The Three Hermits · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r) 1631 · Esther · Jean Toomer · ss Modern Review January 1923 1637 · The Distant Past · William Trevor · ss (r) 1645 · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss The Californian December 16 1865 revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865). 1649 · Author’s Perspective: Twain on the Lazy Method of Writing · Mark Twain · ar (r) 1652 · Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975 1660 · Author’s Perspective: Updike: Why Write? · John Updike · ar (r) 1663 · Going to Russia · Guy Vanderhaeghe · ss Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Macmillan of Canada, 1982 1671 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973 · Kindred Spirits · Alice Walker · ss Esquire August 1985 1677 · Author’s Perspective: Walker: The Black Woman Writer in America · Alice Walker · ar (r) 1681 · Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939 1690 · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941 1699 · Author’s Perspective: Welty: The Plot of the Short Story · Eudora Welty · ar (r) 1702 · Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934 1713 · The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde · ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, David Nutt, 1888 1719 · Author’s Perspective: Wilde on the Aim of Art · Oscar Wilde · ar (r) 1722 · In the Garden of the North American Martyrs · Tobias Wolff · ss Antæus #37, Spring 1980 1732 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921 1733 · Author’s Perspective: Woolf on Women and Fiction · Virginia Woolf · ar (r) 1736 · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r) 1747 · IV. Criticism and Sources 1749 · Fact Into Fiction: Historical and Biographical Sources 1750 · On Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” 1750 · The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tess Gallagher · ar (r) 1751 · The Origins of “Cathedral” · Tom Jenks · ar (r) 1752 · On Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer” 1752 · The Trial of Sidney Smith · [uncredited] · ar (r) 1753 · The Sentencing of Sidney Smith · [uncredited] · ar (r) 1756 · On Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” 1756 · The Sinking of the Commodore · Stephen Crane · ar (r) 1760 · On Ralph Ellison’s “A Party Down at the Square” 1760 · Lynching in Tennessee · James Weldon Johnson · ar (r) 1762 · On Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” 1762 · “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar The Forerunner October 1913 1764 · On Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” 1764 · Eatonville When You Look at It · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r) 1766 · On London’s “To Build a Fire” 1766 · London Defends the Factuality of “To Build a Fire” · Jack London · ar (r) 1768 · On Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” 1768 · Particulars of the Capture of the Spanish Ship Tryal · Amasa Delano · ar (r) 1776 · On Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” 1776 · The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action · Don Moser · ar (r) 1785 · On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” 1785 · Alpha Company · Tim O’Brien · ar (r) 1788 · On Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to find” 1788 · A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit · J. O. Tate · ar (r) 1791 · On Leslie Marmom Silko’s “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” 1791 · It’s Based upon Something Vaguely Similar · Leslie Marmon Silko · ar (r) 1793 · On Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” 1794 · Amy Tan’s Unknown Chinese Family · Curt Schleier · ar (r) 1795 · Critical Approaches to Fiction 1796 · Formalist Criticism 1797 · The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar (r) 1798 · Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar (r) 1799 · Biographical Criticism 1800 · Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar (r) 1802 · Biographical Background to “Babylon Revisited” · Jeffrey Meyers · ar (r) 1804 · Historical Criticism 1805 · Joyce’s Vision of Dublin · Seamus Deane · ar (r) 1807 · The Argentinean Context of Borges’s Fantastic Fiction · John King · ar (r) 1809 · Psychological Criticism 1810 · The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar (r) 1811 · The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar (r) 1813 · Mythological Criticism 1814 · Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar (r) 1815 · Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar (r) 1817 · Sociological Criticism 1818 · Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar (r) 1818 · Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar (r) 1820 · Gender Criticism 1821 · Toward a Feminist Criticism · Elaine Showalter · ar (r) 1822 · Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar (r) 1823 · Reader-Response Criticism 1824 · An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar (r) 1825 · Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers · Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. · ar (r) 1829 · Deconstructionist Criticism 1830 · The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar (r) 1831 · Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar (r) 1832 · Cultural Studies 1834 · Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar (r) 1835 · What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar (r) 1839 · V. Appendices 1841 · A History of the Short Story · [uncredited] · ms (r) 1863 · The Elements of Short Fiction · [uncredited] · ms (r) 1878 · Writing About Fiction · [uncredited] · ms (r)