The Granta Book of the American Short Story ed. Richard Ford (Penguin/Granta, October 1998, 0-14-014032-8, $15.95, 736pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- · Introduction · Richard Ford · in (r)
- · A Day in the Open · Jane Bowles · ss Cross Section 1945 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1945
- · A Distant Episode · Paul Bowles · ss Partisan Review January/February 1947
- · Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · nv Cummington Press, 1946
- · O City of Broken Dreams · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker January 24 1948
- · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948
- · The View from the Balcony · Wallace Stegner · ss (r)
- · No Place for You, My Love · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker September 20 1952
- · The State of Grace · Harold Brodkey · ss The New Yorker November 6 1954
- · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954
- · Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955
- · In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All · Grace Paley · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Spring/Summer 1989
- · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957
- · Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time · Peter Taylor · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1958
- · Welcome to the Monkey House · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss Playboy January 1968
- · In the Zoo · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker September 19 1953
- · A Poetics for Bullies · Stanley Elkin · ss Esquire April 1965
- · Upon the Sweeping Flood · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Southwest Review Spring 1963
- · The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker March 6 1965
- · In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · nv New American Review #1, September 1967
- · A Solo Song: For Doc · James Alan McPherson · ss (r)
- · The Babysitter · Robert Coover · nv Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover, E.P. Dutton, 1969
- · City Boy · Leonard Michaels · ss (r)
- · White Rat · Gayl Jones · ss White Rat by Gayl Jones, Random House, 1977
- · Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?”
- · Train · Joy Williams · ss Taking Care by Joy Williams, Random House, 1982
- · Fugue in A Minor · William Kotzwinkle · ss (r)
- · Here Come the Maples · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 11 1976
- · Pretty Ice · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker January 22 1979
- · Testimony of Pilot · Barry Hannah · nv Airships by Barry Hannah, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978
- · Greenwich Time · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker October 29 1979
- · Lechery · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss (r)
- · Liars in Love · Richard Yates · ss (r)
- · The Circling Hand · Jamaica Kincaid · ss The New Yorker November 21 1983
- · Territory · David Leavitt · ss The New Yorker May 31 1982
- · Bridging · Max Apple · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1984
- · Greasy Lake · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The Paris Review #83, Spring 1982
- · The Rich Brother · Tobias Wolff · ss Vanity Fair (US) June 1986
- · American Express · James Salter · nv Esquire February 1988
- · The Joy Luck Club · Amy Tan · ex Putnam, March 1989
- · The Fireman’s Wife · Richard Bausch · nv The Atlantic Monthly November 1989
- · Hot Ice · Stuart Dybek · nv Antæus 1984
- · You’re Ugly, Too · Lorrie Moore · nv The New Yorker July 3 1989
- · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986
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