Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin’s, copyright 2011.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Story and its writer — Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe — Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken — In a bamboo grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa — The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie — An act of vengeance / Isabel Allende — Hands / Sherwood Anderson — Happy endings / Margaret Atwood — Sonny’s blues / James Baldwin — Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara — Black man and white woman in dark green rowboat / Russell Banks — San Francisco / Lynda Barry — The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme — Snow / Ann Beattie — From fun home: old father, old artificer / Alison Bechdel — The rememberer / Aimee Bender — An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce — The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges — This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski — Greasy lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle — August 2026: there will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury — The guest / Albert Camus — The werewolf / Angela Carter — Cathedral A small, good thing What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver — Paul’s case / Willa Carter — Water names / Lan Samantha Chang — The swimmer / John Cheever — The darling The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov — Désiŕée’s baby The story of an hour / Kate Chopin — Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros — The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) — Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad — Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar — The open boat / Stephen Crane — Night women / Edwidge Danticat — Television / Lydia Davis — How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz — Battle royal / Ralph Ellison — The red convertible / Louise Erdrich — A rose for Emily That evening sun / William Faulkner — Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald — A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez — Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb — The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman — The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol — Homage / Nadine Gordimer — T
• Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad’s ”Heart of darkness” / Chinua Achebe — Superman and me / Sherman Alexie — Whirlwind man steals yellow woman / Paula Gunn Allen — Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson — Reading blind / Margaret Atwood — Writing Poes / Russell Banks — Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges — Plotting against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and The lady with the dog / Matthew C. Brennan — Translating Kafka / Ann Charters — Why I write short stories / John Cheever — Technique in writing the short story / Anton Chekhov — How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin — Private history of the Jumping frog story / Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) — Sinking of the Commodore / Stephen Crane — Hunger artist / R. Crumb David Zane Mairowitz — On the short, short story / Lydia Davis — Influence of folklore on ”Battle royal” / Ralph Ellison — Biographical perspective on Joyce’s The dead / Richard Ellmann — Meaning of ”A rose for Emily” / William Faulkner — Why we like Chekhov / Richard Ford — Mexico, the United States, and the multicultural future / Carlos Fuentes — On Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme / Vivian Gornick — Levels of meaning in Lawrence’s Rocking-horse winner / Janice H. Harris — How it feels to be colored me What white publishers won’t print / Zora Neale Hurston — Morning of June 28,1948 and ”The lottery” / Shirley Jackson — Genesis of The real thing / Henry James — Kafka’s view of The metamorphosis / Gustav Janouch — Looking back on girlhood / Sarah Orne Jewett — On ”Girl” / Jamaica Kincaid — Finding your voice / Anne Lamott — Scapegoat in Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin — Letter to the editor on To build a fire / Jack London — Review of Woolf’s Kew Gardens / Katherine Mansfield — On Tim O’Brien’s The things they carried” / Bobbie Ann Mason — Writer’s goal / Guy de Maupassant — Blackness in Hawthorne’s ”Young Goodman Brown” / Herman Melville — Deconstructive reading on Melville’s Bartleby, the scrivener / J. Hillis Miller
• Casebooks: Casebook one: James Baldwin’s Sonny’s blues : Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin — Words and music: narrative ambiguity in Sonny’s blues / Keith E. Byerman — Sonny’s blues saved my life / Kenneth A. McClane — Casebook two: Raymond Carver: On writing Creative writing 101 The bath / Raymond Carver — Origin of ”cathedral” / Tom Jenks — Reading of ”What we talk about when we talk about love” / Arthur M. Saltzman — Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott — Casebook three: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The yellow wallpaper : Why I wrote The yellow wallpaper Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Feminist reading of Gilman’s The yellow wallpaper / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar — On The yellow wallpaper / Elaine Showalter — Casebook four: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of maladies : My two lives / Jhumpa Lahiri — Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn — Lahiri’s Interpreter of maladies / Simon Lewis — Casebook five: Flannery O’Connor: From letters, 1954-55 Writing short stories Reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O’Connor — Parables of Flannery O’Connor / Joyce Carol Oates — Rhetorical reading of O’Connor’s ”Everything that rises must converge” / Wayne C. Booth — On ”Good country people” / Dorothy Tuck McFarland — Casebook six: Joyce Carol Oates’s Where are you going, where have you been? : Stories that define me: making of a writer Smooth talk: short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates — Pied piper of Tucson: he cruised in a golden car, looking for the action / Don Moser — Casebook seven: Edgar Allan Poe: Importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe — On Fall of the house of Usher and Cask of Amontillado / D.H. Lawrence — New critical reading of Fall of the house of Usher / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren — Under the covers with Fortunato and Montresor / Jan Burke — Fall of the house of Usher / Will Eisner — Casebook eight: Graphic storytelling: What the little old ladies feel / Alis

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• Short story.
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