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Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers ed. Joyce Carol Oates (W.W. Norton, January 1998, 0-393-97176-7, $37.65, 750pp, tp, an)
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· Introduction: Why We Write, Why We Read · Joyce Carol Oates · in (r)

· I. Miniature Narratives

· The Student · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· The Sirens · Franz Kafka · ss (r)

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

· The Wind Blows · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)

· Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, 1937

· I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976

· The House of the Crime · Alberto Moravia · ss (r)

· The Supper · Tadeusz Borowski · ss (r)

· Cities & the Dead · Italo Calvino · ss (r)

· Continuous Cities · Italo Calvino · ss (r)

· Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)

· The Turtle Overnight · James Wright · ss (r)

· Regret for a Spider Web · James Wright · ss (r)

· Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor · Phyllis Koestenbaum · ss (r)

· Distance from Loved Ones · James Tate · ss (r)

· Cockroaches in Autumn · Lydia Davis · ss (r)

· Coffee · Daniel Halpern · ss (r)

· Advice to Young Writers · Ron Padgett · ss (r)

· The Last Days of a Famous Mime · Peter Carey · ss (r)

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

· Death of the Right Fielder · Stuart Dybek · ss (r)

· 14 May 1905 and 15 May 1905 · Alan Lightman · ss (r)

· La Cortada · Ruth Behar · ss (r)

· II. Dramatic Monologues

· Lethal · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Where Is Here? by Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco Press, 1992

· Twirler · Jane Martin · ss (r)

· Testimonies · August Wilson · ss (r)

· Still Life · Emily Mann · ss (r)

· III. Early Stories

· The Judgment · Franz Kafka · ss 1913

· Indian Camp [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review April 1924, as “One Night Last Summer”

· The Burning Baby · Dylan Thomas · ss Contemporary Poetry and Prose May 1936

· Wunderkind · Carson McCullers · ss Story #53, December 1936, as by Carson Smith

· Goodbye, My Brother · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker August 25 1951

· Friends from Philadelphia · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 30 1954

· Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)

· The Naked Lady · Madison Smartt Bell · ss The Crescent Review #1, 1983

· The Sutton Pie Safe · Pinckney Benedict · ss The Henfield Prize Stories ed. John Birmingham, Laura Gilpin & Joseph F. McCrindle, Warner, 1992

· A Portrait of a Father · Jonathan Ames · ss (r)

· IV. The Art and the Craft of Revision

· The Sisters · James Joyce · ss Irish Homestead August 13 1904

· The Sisters (1914) · James Joyce · ss (r)

· V. Re-Visions: Reappropriations

· Genesis 19 · [uncredited] · ex from The Hebrew Bible (r)

· The Cave · Alicia Ostriker · ss (r)

· The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira · Ovid · ss (r)

· Hercules, Deianira, Nessus · C. K. Williams · ss (r)

· The Story of Daedalus and Icarus · Ovid · ss (r)

· Fever · Harlan Ellison · vi Mind Fields by Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison, Morpheus International, 1994

· Little Red-Cap · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823, as by The Brothers Grimm
translated from the German (“Rothkäppchen”, 1812).

· The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979
revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.

· Little Snow-White · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)

· Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Anne Sexton · ss (r)

· VI. Narrative in Other Modes

· Memoir, Diary, Personal Document

· Passages from the American Notebooks · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex Smith, Elder, 1868

· From the Journal (May 1853-October 1857) · Henry David Thoreau · ex (r)

· From the Diary (February-March 1930) · Virginia Woolf · ex (r)

· Moments of Being · Virginia Woolf · ex Harvest/HBJ, 1985

· American Hunger · Richard Wright · ar (r)

· How It Feels to Be Colored Me · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)

· Borges and I · Jorge Luis Borges · ar (r)

· Those Who Must Jump · M. F. K. Fisher · ar (r)

· Passing Through Tangiers · Jack Kerouac · ar (r)

· No Name Woman · Maxine Hong Kingston · ar (r)

· Updike and I · John Updike · ar (r)

· The Dream · Mikal Gilmore · ar (r)

· Poems That Tell Stories

· Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops · Homer · pm (r)

· The Story of Actaeon · Ovid · pm (r)

· Home Burial · Robert Frost · pm (r)

· Cherrylog Road · James Dickey · pm (r)

· The Car · Raymond Carver · pm (r)

· 400-Meter Freestyle · Maxine Kumin · pm (r)

· Emergencies · Annie Dillard · pm (r)

· Cattle-Killing Winter, 1889-90 · Jana Harris · pm (r)

· Avalanche · Jana Harris · pm (r)

· Violence · Tom Wayman · pm (r)

· Sure Shot · Erica Funkhouser · pm (r)

· Testimony · Jon Davis · pm (r)

· After the Fact: To Ted Bundy · Robert Phillips · pm (r)

· Target Practice · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· The Levee · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· The Trees That Change Our Lives · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· The Wrestler’s Heart · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· When Jesus Walked · Carlos Cumpian · pm (r)

· Aisle of Dogs · Chase Twichell · pm (r)

· The Cleaving · Li-Young Lee · pm (r)

· The Flood · Joy Harjo · pm The Best of the West 4 ed. James & Denise Thomas, Norton, 1991

· VII. Genre: Horror

· The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924

· The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994

· VIII. Classics and Contemporaries

· “Tickets, Please!” · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Strand Magazine April 1919

· Sun and Moon · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)

· That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931

· A Temple of the Holy Ghost · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955

· Anxiety · Grace Paley · ss (r)

· The Balloon · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 16 1966

· The Writer in the Family · E. L. Doctorow · ss Esquire August 1984

· Why Don’t You Dance? · Raymond Carver · ss (r)

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

· Jasmine · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r)

· Sister · Tobias Wolff · ss Ploughshares Winter 1983

· Communist · Richard Ford · ss Antæus #55, Autumn 1985

· Any Sport · William Heyen · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1986

· Mourning · Robert Taylor, Jr. · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1981

· My Man Bovanne · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Black World October 1971, as “Mama Hazel Takes to Her Bed”

· Cutter · C. E. Poverman · ss Skin by C. E. Poverman, Ontario Review, 1992

· I Dated Jane Austen · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss Georgia Review Summer 1979

· Dating Your Mom · Ian Frazier · ss The New Yorker July 3 1978

· Aren’t You Happy for Me? · Richard Bausch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1993

· My Mother · Jamaica Kincaid · ss At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Plume, 1992

· Fruit of the Month · Abby Frucht · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1984

· Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981

· X and O · Jewel Mogan · ss (r)

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

· Young Lions · Edward P. Jones · ss (r)

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

· Just Don’t Touch Anything · Russell Banks · ss GQ May 1993

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

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

· Family · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Omni December 1989

· Afterword: The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop · Joyce Carol Oates · aw (r)

· Notes on Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

Havana Noir ed. Achy Obejas (Akashic Books, October 2007, 1-933354-38-0, $15.95, 355pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]

15 · A Feral Heart · Achy Obejas · in

19 · Part I: Sleepless in Havana

21 · Nowhere Man · Miguel Mejides; translated by Achy Obejas · nv; set in Old Havana.
translated from the Spanish.

52 · The Last Passenger · Ena Lucía Portela; translated by Achy Obejas · nv; set in Vedado.
translated from the Spanish.

86 · The Scene · Mylene Fernández Pintado; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Malecón.
translated from the Spanish.

96 · Staring at the Sun · Leonardo Padura; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Marianao.
translated from the Spanish.

111 · Part II: Escape to Nowhere

113 · The Dinner · Carolina García-Aguilera · nv; set in Flores.

144 · Johnny Ventur’s Seventh Try · Pablo Medina · ss; set in Jaimanitas.

155 · Shanghai · Alex Abella · nv; set in Siboney.

179 · Murder at 503 La Rosa · Moisés Asís · ss; set in Ayestarán.

190 · Murder, According to My Mother-in-Law · Arturo Arango; translated by Achy Obejas · nv; set in El Cerro.
translated from the Spanish.

213 · Part III: Sudden Rage

215 · The Orchid · Mariela Varona Roque; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Santos Suárez.
translated from the Spanish.

220 · What for, This Burden · Michel Encinosa Fú; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Vibora.
translated from the Spanish.

239 · The Red Bridge · Yoss; translated by Achy Obejas · nv; set in Lawton.
translated from the Spanish.

264 · La Coca-Cola del Olvido · Lea Aschkenas · ss; set in Centro Habana.

281 · Part IV: Drowning in Silence

283 · Zenzizenzic · Achy Obejas · nv; set in Chinatown.

321 · Virgins of Regla · Mabel Cuesta; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Regla.
translated from the Spanish.

328 · Olúo · Arnaldo Correa; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Casablanca.
translated from the Spanish.

339 · Settling of Scores · Oscar F. Ortíz; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Cojímar.
translated from the Spanish.

353 · Abikú · Yohamna Depestre; translated by Achy Obejas · ss; set in Alamar.
translated from the Spanish.

356 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Mexico City Noir ed. Achy Obejas--- see under Paco Ignacio Taibo, II.

Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep: The Best New Science Fiction from Sweden ed. Peter Öberg (Affront Publishing, April 9, 2015, 978-91-87585-31-9, $17.50, 324pp, tp, oa, cover by Andreas Raninger)
Anthology of 26 stories from “the new wave of Swedish speculative Fiction writers”.

· Melody of the Yellow Bard · Hans Olsson · ss

· The Rats · Boel Bermann · ss

· Getting to the End · Erik Odeldahl · ss

· Vegatropolis—City of the Beautiful · Ingrid Remvall · ss

· Jump to the Left, Jump to the Right · Love Kölle · ss

· To Preserve Humankind · Christina Nordlander · ss

· The Thirteenth Tower · Pia Lindestrand · ss

· Punch Card Horses · Jonas Larsson; translated by P-O Rehnberg · ss

· The Philosopher’s Stone · Tora Greve · ss

· A Sense of Foul Play · Andrew Coulthard · ss

· Waste of Time · Alexandra Nero · ss

· The Damien Factor · Johannes Pinter · ss

· Wishmaster · Andrea Grave-Müller · ss

· Quadrillennium · A. R. Yngve · ss M-Brane SF #6, July 2009

· Mission Accomplished · My Bergström · ss

· The Road · Anders Blixt · ss

· Lost and Found · Maria Haskins · ss

· The Publisher’s Reader · Patrik Centerwall · ss

· Stories from the Box · Björn Engström · ss

· The Membranes in the Centering Horn · K. G. Johansson · ss

· One Last Kiss Goodbye · Oskar Källner · ss

· The Mirror Talks · Sara Kopljar · ss

· Keep Fighting Until the Machines Fall Asleep · Eva Holmquist · ss

· Outpost Eleven · Markus Sköld · ss

· Messiah 311 · Anna Jakobsson Lund · ss

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