You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe ed. Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard (HarperPerennial, October 1994, 0-060-98202-0, $18.00, 640pp, tp, an)
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- · Introduction · Ron Hansen & Jim Shepard · in
- · Introduction to “A Mother’s Tale” · Annie Dillard · is
- · A Mother’s Tale · James Agee · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1952
- · Introduction to “Guy de Maupassant” · Francine Prose · is
- · Guy de Maupassant · Isaac Babel · ss (r)
- · Introduction to “Sonny’s Blues” · Kenneth A. McClane · is
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · Introduction to “The School” · T. Coraghessan Boyle · is
- · The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974
- · Introduction to “The Aleph” · Oscar Hijuelos · is
- · The Aleph · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El Aleph”, Sur, September 1945).
- · Introduction to “A Day in the Open” · Joy Williams · is
- · A Day in the Open · Jane Bowles · ss Cross Section 1945 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1945
- · Introduction to “A Distant Episode” · John L’Heureux · is
- · A Distant Episode · Paul Bowles · ss Partisan Review January/February 1947
- · Introduction to “The Star Cafe” · John Hawkes · is
- · The Star Cafe · Mary Caponegro · ss (r)
- · Introduction to “Reflections” · Robert Coover · is
- · Reflections · Angela Carter · nv Fireworks by Angela Carter, Quartet Books, 1974
- · Introduction to “Cathedral” · Tobias Wolff · is
- · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981
- · Introduction to “Goodbye, My Brother” · Allan Gurganus · is
- · Goodbye, My Brother · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker August 25 1951
- · Introduction to “Gooseberries” · Eudora Welty · is
- · Gooseberries · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)
- · Introduction to “A Christmas Carol” · John Irving · is
- · A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall, December 19 1843
- · Introduction to “Pie Dance” · Amy Tan · is
- · Pie Dance · Molly Giles · ss The Henfield Prize Stories ed. John Birmingham, Laura Gilpin & Joseph F. McCrindle, Warner, 1992
- · Introduction to “Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases” · Charles Baxter · is
- · Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases · Lars Gustafsson · ss (r)
- · Introduction to “The Interview” · Jane Smiley · is
- · The Interview · Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · ss The New Yorker July 27 1957
- · Introduction to “The Dead” · Mary Gordon · is
- · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914
- · Introduction to “In the Penal Colony” · Joyce Carol Oates · is
- · In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka · nv (r)
translated from the German (“In der Strafkolonie”, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919).
- · Introduction to “Girl” · Stephanie Vaughn · is
- · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978
- · Introduction to “The Smallest Woman in the World” · Julia Alvarez · is
- · The Smallest Woman in the World · Clarice Lispector; translated by Elizabeth Bishop · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1964
- · Introduction to “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” · Deborah Eisenberg · is
- · The Daughters of the Late Colonel · Katherine Mansfield · nv The London Mercury May 1921
- · Introduction to “Labor Day Dinner” · David Leavitt · is
- · Labor Day Dinner · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker September 28 1981
- · Introduction to “Spring in Fialta” · Jim Shepard · is
- · Spring in Fialta · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Nine Stories by Vladimir Nabokov, New Directions, 1947
- · Introduction to “The Things They Carried” · Bobbie Ann Mason · is
- · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- · Introduction to “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Sue Miller · is
- · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- · Introduction to “I Stand Here Ironing” · Amy Hempel · is
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · Introduction to “Wants” · Janet Kauffman · is
- · Wants · Grace Paley · ss Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974
- · Introduction to “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” · Tim O’Brien · is
- · In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937
- · Introduction to “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” · Louis Owens · is
- · The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Winter/Spring 1969, as by Leslie Chapman
- · Introduction to “Helping” · Louise Erdrich · is
- · Helping · Robert Stone · nv The New Yorker June 8 1987
- · Introduction to “Master and Man” · Ron Hansen · is
- · Master and Man · Leo Tolstoy · nv (r)
- · Introduction to “Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car” · Lorrie Moore · is
- · Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car · John Updike · ss (r)
- · Introduction to “The Flowers” · Edward P. Jones · is
- · The Flowers · Alice Walker · ss (r)
- · Introduction to “No Place for You, My Love” · Russell Banks · is
- · No Place for You, My Love · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker September 20 1952
- · Introduction to “Paper Garden” · Al Young · is
- · Paper Garden · Jerome Wilson · ss (r)
- · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)
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