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Faces by Leigh Kennedy (Jonathan Cape, February 1986, 0-224-02807-3, £8.95, 152pp, hc, co)
Collection of 10 dark fantasy stories.

9 · The Silent Cradle · Leigh Kennedy · ss Shadows 6 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1983

23 · Max Hunting · Leigh Kennedy · nv

45 · Tuning · Leigh Kennedy · ss Nantucket Review 1985

57 · The Window Jesus · Leigh Kennedy · vi Shayol #7, 1985

63 · River Baby · Leigh Kennedy · ss

77 · The Fisherman · Leigh Kennedy · ss

87 · Belling Martha · Leigh Kennedy · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1983

111 · Greek · Leigh Kennedy · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1983

127 · Petit Mal · Leigh Kennedy · ss

133 · Her Furry Face · Leigh Kennedy · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid December 1983

Ask a Policeman by Milward Kennedy, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, John Rhode, Dorothy L. Sayers & Helen Simpson--- see under Anthony Berkeley.

An Introduction to Fiction ed. X. J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia (Longman US, 1999, 0-321-01558-4, $50.00, 720pp, tp, an)

· 1. Reading a Story

· Fable and Tale

· The Appointment in Samarra · W. Somerset Maugham · ss The Star July 9 1936

· Godfather Death · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)

· Independence · Chuang Tzu · ss (r)

· Plot

· The Short Story

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

· John Updike on Writing, Why Write? · John Updike · ar (r)

· What’s the Plot

· 2. Point of View

· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

· The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843

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

· Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920

· Katherine Mansfield on Writing, Creating “Miss Brill” · Katherine Mansfield · ar (r)

· How Point of View Shapes a Story

· Student Essay: Raymond Carver’s Use of First-Person Point of View in “Cathedra”

· 3. Character

· The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929

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

· Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review May/June 1953

· Isaac Bashevis Singer on Writing, “The Character of Gimpel” · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ar (r)

· How Character Creates Action

· 4. Setting

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902

· Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982

· A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r)

· Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice · Amy Tan · ar (r)

· How Time and Place Set a Story

· 5. Tone and Style

· A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933

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

· Irony

· 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).

· The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El evangelio según Marcos”, La Nación, August 1970).

· Ernest Hemingway on Writing, the Direct Style · Ernest Hemingway · ar (r)

· Be Style Conscious

· 6. Theme

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

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

· The Parable of the Prodigal Son · [uncredited] · ss from The King James Bible (r); from Luke 15:11-32.

· Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961

· Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., on Writing, the Themes of Science Fiction · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ar (r)

· Stating the Theme

· 7. Symbol

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

· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

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

· Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing, Note on “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r)

· Recognizing Symbols

· Student Essay

· An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· 8. Evaluating a Story

· Jungle Video · Ralph Lombreglia · ss The New Yorker August 21 1989

· Ralph Lombreglia on Writing, Creating “Jungle Video” · Ralph Lombreglia · ar (r)

· Know What You’re Judging

· 9. Reading Long Stories and Novels

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

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

· Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing “The Metamorphosis” · Franz Kafka · ar (r)

· Leaving Things Out

· Student Essay

· Kafka’s Greatness

· 10. A Writer in Depth

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

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

· Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964

· Flannery O’Connor on Writing: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)

· Flannery O’Connor on Writing: The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)

· How One Story Illuminates Another

· 11. Stories for Further Reading

· Civil Peace · Chinua Achebe · ss (r)

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

· A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain · Robert Olen Butler · ss New England Review 1991

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

· The Five-Forty-Eight · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker April 10 1954

· The Lady with a Pet Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

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

· Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991

· Battle Royal · Ralph Ellison · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art October 1947

· 1933 · Mavis Gallant · ss (r)

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

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

· The Defeated · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)

· On the Road · Langston Hughes · ss Esquire January 1935

· Sweat · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Fire!! November 1926

· In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986

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

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

· The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926

· The Soong Sisters · Sky Lee · ss (r)

· A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r)

· Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955

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

· How I Met My Husband · Alice Munro · ss (r)

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch Fall 1966

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

· First Confession · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2720, March 1 1939

· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”

· The Man to Send Rain Clouds · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Winter/Spring 1969, as by Leslie Chapman

· No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.

· The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942

· A Visit of Charity · Eudora Welty · ss Decision June 1941

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

· 12. Writing About Literature

· Beginning

· Discovering and Planning

· Drafting and Revising

· The Form of Your Finished Paper

· Documenting Your Sources

· Reference Guide for Citations

· Keeping a Journal

· The Girl Writing Her English Paper · Robert Wallace · ss (r)

· 13. Writing About a Story

· Explicating

· Student Essay (Explication)

· Analyzing

· Student Essay (Analysis)

· Student Card Report

· Comparing and Contrasting

· Suggestions for Writing

· 14. Writing and Researching on the Computer

· Writing and Revising

· Using Spell-Check Programs

· Researching on the World Wide Web

· Two Ways to Start Researching

· Plagiarism

· Literature Online

· 15. Critical Approaches to Literature

· Formalist Criticism

· The Formalist Critic · Cleanth Brooks · ar (r)

· Light and Darkness in “Sonny’s Blues” · Michael Clark · ar (r)

· On Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” · Robert Langbaum · ar (r)

· Biographical Criticism

· The Relationship of Poet and Poem · Leslie Fiedler · ar (r)

· Chekhov’s Attitude to Romantic Love · Virginia Llewellyn Smith · ar (r)

· On Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” · Brett C. Millier · ar (r)

· Historical Criticism

· Imagism · Hugh Kenner · ar (r)

· Southern Sources of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” · Sally Fitzgerald · ar (r)

· On Langston Hughes · Darryl Pinckney · ar (r)

· Psychological Criticism

· The Destiny of Oedipus · Sigmund Freud · ar (r)

· The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart” · Daniel Hoffman · ar (r)

· Poetic Influence · Harold Bloom · ar (r)

· Mythological Criticism

· Mythic Archetypes · Northrop Frye · ar (r)

· Myth in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” · Edmond Volpe · ar (r)

· Lucifer in Shakespeare’s Othello · Maud Bodkin · ar (r)

· Sociological Criticism

· Content Determines Form · Georg Lukacs · ar (r)

· Money and Labor in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” · Daniel P. Watkins · ar (r)

· Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln · Alfred Kazin · ar (r)

· Gender Criticism

· Toward a Feminist Poetics · Elaine Showalter · ar (r)

· Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Juliann Fleenor · ar (r)

· The Freedom of Emily Dickinson · Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar · ar (r)

· Reader-Response Criticism

· An Eskimo “A Rose for Emily” · Stanley Fish · ar (r)

· “How Do We Make a Poem?” · Robert Scholes · ar (r)

· Filling the Gaps in Hamlet · Joel Wingard · ar (r)

· Deconstructionist Criticism

· The Death of the Author · Roland Barthes · ar (r)

· Rigorous Unreliability · Barbara Johnson · ar (r)

· On Wordsworth’s “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” · Geoffrey Hartman · ar (r)

· Cultural Studies

· Poststructuralist Cultural Critique · Vincent B. Leitch · ar (r)

· What Is Cultural Studies? · Mark Bauerlein · ar (r)

· The Stance of Observation in William Blake’s “London” · Heather Glen · ar (r)

No. 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki: The Untold Stories by Rick Kennett & A. F. Kidd--- see under A. F. Kidd.

No. 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki: The Untold Stories (var. 1) by Rick Kennett & A. F. Kidd--- see under A. F. Kidd.

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