The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology ed. Ann Charters (Bedford Books, August 1999, 0-312-19176-6, $54.70, tp, an)
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- · Preface · Ann Charters · pr
- · Some Precursors of the American Short Story · Ann Charters · in
- · The Smith-Pocahontas Legend · John Smith · ss (r)
- · The Origin of the Creek Confederacy · Chekilli · ss (r)
- · The Theft of Fire · Shasta · ss (r)
- · From Concerning the League · John Arthur Gibson · ss (r)
- · The Arrival of the Dutch · John Heckewelder · ss (r)
- · All God’s Chillen Had Wings · Caesar Grant · ss (r)
- · Sunrise in My Pocket · Davy Crockett · ss (r)
- · Almanacs
- · Peter Klaus the Goatherd · J. C. C. Nachtigal · ss (r)
- · Stories
- · Early Nineteenth Century: 1819-1860
- · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell
- · The Indian Hater · James Hall · ss 1828
- · Cacoethes Scribendi · Catharine Maria Sedgwick · ss (r)
- · The Dance · Augustus Baldwin Longstreet · ss (r)
- · The Minister’s Black Veil · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1836, 1835, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”
- · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- · The Big Bear of Arkansas · Thomas Bangs Thorpe · ss The Spirit of the Times March 27 1841
- · Slavery’s Pleasant Homes · Lydia Maria Child · ss (r)
- · The Land-Fever · Caroline Kirkland · ss (r)
- · The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee · William Gilmore Simms · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book February 1840
- · The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss (r)
- · The Angel Over the Right Shoulder · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · ss 1852
- · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- · The Two Offers · Frances E. W. Harper · ss (r)
- · Circumstance · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1860, uncredited.
- · Late Nineteenth Century: 1861-1899
- · Life in the Iron-Mills, or The Korl Woman · Rebecca Harding Davis · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1861, uncredited.
- · 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).
- · The Luck of Roaring Camp · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly August 1868
- · Belles Demoiselles Plantation · George Washington Cable · ss Scribner’s Monthly April 1874
- · Rodman the Keeper · Constance Fenimore Woolson · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1877
- · One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888
- · The Return of a Private · Hamlin Garland · nv The Arena July 1890
- · The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1890, as by Mary E. Wilkins
- · How Celia Changed Her Mind · Rose Terry Cooke · ss Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills by Rose Terry Cooke, Houghton, Mifflin, 1891
- · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892
- · The Queen’s Twin · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1899
- · The Little Room · Madeline Yale Wynne · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1895
- · Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament · Kate Chopin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1896 (+1)
- · The Wife of His Youth · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1898
- · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898
- · Tony’s Wife · Alice Dunbar-Nelson · ss (r)
- · Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1940
- · The Trial Path · Zitkala-Sä · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine October 1901
- · The Duplicity of Hargraves · O. Henry · ss The Junior Munsey February 1902
- · A Wagner Matinée · Willa Cather · ss Everybody’s Magazine March 1904
- · The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904
- · All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905
- · The Walking Woman · Mary Austin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1907
- · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908
- · Its Wavering Image · Sui Sin Far · ss Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far, A. C. McClurg, 1912
- · Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916
- · The Lost Phbe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916
- · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.
- · My Own People · Anzia Yezierska · ss Metropolitan February 1921
- · Winter Dreams · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv Metropolitan December 1922
- · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922
- · Miss Furr and Miss Skeene · Gertrude Stein · ss Vanity Fair (US) July 1923
- · Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923
- · Soldier’s Home · Ernest Hemingway · ss In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, Boni & Liveright, 1925
- · He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927
- · You Were Perfectly Fine · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker February 23 1929
- · Spotted Horses · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1931
- · A Summer Tragedy · Arna Bontemps · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life 1931
- · The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933
- · Red-Headed Baby · Langston Hughes · ss The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes, Alfred A Knopf, 1934
- · Seventy Thousand Assyrians · William Saroyan · ss Story #21, April 1934
- · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933
- · The Snake · John Steinbeck · ss The Monterey Beacon June 22 1935
- · In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937
- · He Is Thousands · Jack Conroy · ss (r)
- · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)
- · Mid-Twentieth Century: 1941-1965
- · His Own Country · Pearl S. Buck · ss Cosmopolitan October 1935
- · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941
- · The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt · Mary McCarthy · nv Partisan Review July/August 1941
- · A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud · Carson McCullers · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1942
- · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942
- · Flying Home · Ralph Ellison · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944
- · We’re the only colored people here · Gwendolyn Brooks · ss (r)
- · Winter Night · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 19 1946
- · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947
- · The Petrified Woman · Caroline Gordon · ss Mademoiselle September 1947
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958
- · Promise of Rain · Peter Taylor · ss (r)
- · Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961
- · The Sharks · John O’Hara · ss Assembly by John O'Hara, Random House, 1961
- · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961
- · Where Is the Voice Coming From? · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker July 6 1963
- · Late Twentieth Century: 1966-Present
- · In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · nv New American Review #1, September 1967
- · Title · John Barth · ss (r)
- · The Police Band · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker August 22 1964
- · 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
- · 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 · Richard Brautigan · ss (r)
- · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971
- · Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?”
- · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973
- · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974
- · Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975
- · Big Bertha Stories · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss Mother Jones April 1985
- · In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried · Amy Hempel · ss TriQuarterly #56, Winter 1983
- · The Tenant · Bharati Mukherjee · ss The Literary Review 1986
- · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
- · Miss Clairol · Helena María Viramontes · ss (r)
- · Second Question · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker June 10 1991
- · Related Commentary:
- · Where Characters Come From · Ann Beattie · ar (r)
- · Texts · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss American Short Fiction 1990
- · Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies · John Edgar Wideman · ss (r)
- · The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore · Sherman Alexie · ss Full Court ed. Dennis Trudell, Breakaway Books, 1996
- · Tiny, Smiling Daddy · Mary Gaitskill · ss (r)
- · Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)
- · Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? · Gina Berriault · ss Ploughshares Winter 1995/1996
- · New York Day Women · Edwidge Danticat · ss Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat, Soho Press, 1995
- · Saul and Patsy Are in Labor · Charles Baxter · ss (r)
- · Water Names · Lan Samantha Chang · ss (r)
- · The Bunchgrass Edge of the World · Annie Proulx · nv The New Yorker November 30 1998
- · Commentaries
- · Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman · Paula Gunn Allen · ar (r)
- · Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar (r)
- · Regionalism in American Fiction · Mary Austin · ar (r)
- · Autobiographical Notes · James Baldwin · bg (r)
- · It’s a Short Story · John Barth · ar (r)
- · Hemingway’s Short Stories · H. E. Bates · ar (r) [Ref. Ernest Hemingway]
- · Where Characters Come From · Ann Beattie · ar (r)
- · On Jean Toomer and Cane · Arna Bontemps · ar (r) [Ref. Jean Toomer]
- · Creative Writing 101 · Raymond Carver · ar (r)
- · Miss Jewett · Willa Cather · ar (r) [Ref. Sarah Orne Jewett]
- · On Certain Brisk, Bright Days · Kate Chopin · ar (r)
- · Tillie Olsen: The Iron and the Riddle · Robert Coles · ar (r) [Ref. Tillie Olsen]
- · Crazy for Stories · Richard Ford · ar (r)
- · Local Color in Art · Hamlin Garland · ar (r)
- · From Preface to In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · pr 1968
- · A Feminist Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar · ar (r) [Ref. Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
- · Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar (r)
- · The Rise of the “Short Story” · Bret Harte · ar The Cornhill Magazine July 1899
- · Preface to Twice-Told Tales · Nathaniel Hawthorne · pr Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Stationers Co., 1837
- · Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stories · William Dean Howells · ar (r) [Ref. Charles W. Chesnutt]
- · What White Publishers Won’t Print · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)
- · Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 · Washington Irving · lt (r)
- · The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery” · Shirley Jackson · ar (r)
- · From Hawthorne · Henry James · ar (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- · Looking Back on Girlhood · Sarah Orne Jewett · ar (r)
- · How to Write Short Stories · Ring Lardner · ar (r)
- · From Short Story Theory at a Crossroads · Susan Lohafer · ar (r)
- · Edgar Allan Poe and “The Fall of the House of Usher” · James Russell Lowell · ar (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- · On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” · Bobbie Ann Mason · ar (r) [Ref. Tim O’Brien]
- · From The Philosophy of the Short-Story · Brander Matthews · ar (r)
- · Edgar Allan Poe---Critical Context · Charles E. May · ar (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]
- · From “Hawthorne and His Mosses” · Herman Melville · ar (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
- · A Deconstructive Reading of Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” · J. Hillis Miller · ar (r) [Ref. Herman Melville]
- · Stories of American Life · Mary Russell Mitford · ar (r)
- · Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)
- · From The Lonely Voice · Frank O’Connor · ar (r)
- · A Conversation with Ann Charters · Grace Paley · iv (r) [Ref. Ann Charters]
- · The Short Story, through a Couple of the Ages · Dorothy Parker · ar (r)
- · Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · br (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]
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