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The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction
Print Book, English, 2011
Compact 8th ed View all formats and editions
Bedford/St. Martins, Boston, 2011
xx, 1,163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780312596248, 0312596243
1130022558
Introduction: Story and its writer
Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe
Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie
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 boat / Russell Banks
Snow / Ann Beattie
From Fun Home: Old father, old artificer / Alison Bechdel
The rememberer / Aimee Bender
Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges
August 2026: There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury
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
Swimmer / John Cheever
Darling / Anton Chekhov
Désiré́e's baby; Story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
Open boat / Stephen Crane
How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich
Rose for Emily; That evening sun / William Faulkner
Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Homage / Nadine Gordimer
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
Church cancels cow / Amy Hempel
Things you should know / A. M. Homes
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
Lottery / Shirley Jackson
Who's Irish? / Gish Jen
White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett
Bad neighbors / Edward P. Jones
Araby; Dead / James Joyce
Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Necklace / Guy de Maupassant
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville
Nawabdin electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro
Where are you going, where you have been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Everything that rises must converge; Good country people; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Brownies / ZZ Packer
Conversation with my father / Grace Paley
Cask of Amontillado; Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Job history / Annie Proulx
From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco
From Persepolis : The veil / Marjane Satrapi
Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko
Homework / Helen Simpson
Prisoner on the hell planet: a case history / Art Spiegelman
Two kinds / Amy Tan
Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy
A&P / John Updike
The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Good people / David Foster Wallace
Worn path / Eudora Welty
Say yes / Tobias Wolf
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe
Superman and me / Sherman Alexie
Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson
Reading blind / Margaret Atwood
Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin
Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks
Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges
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
Sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane
A huger artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz
Influence of folklore on ''Battle royal'' / Ralph Ellison
Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner
Feminist reading of Gilman's ''Yellow wallpaper'' / Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar
Why I wrote ''Yellow wallpaper''; Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston
Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson
On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid
Finding your voice / Anne Lamott
On Tim O'Brien's ''Things they carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason
Writer's goal / Guy de Maupassant
Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville
How I write short stories / Alice Munro
Stories that define me: Making of a writer; Smooth talk: Short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates
Alpha company / Tim O'Brien
Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley
Importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe
Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko
In the canon, for all the wrong reasons / Amy Tan
Chekhov's intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy
Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker
Some remarks on Kafka's funnieness from which probably not enough has been removed / David Foster Wallace
Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / Eudora Welty
Reading fiction / Richard Wright
Casebooks: Casebook one: Raymond Carver: One 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 two: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies": My two lives / Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn
Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis
Casebook three: Flannery O'Connor: From ''Letters 1954-55''; Writing short stories; Reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor
Rhetorical reading of O'Connor's ''Everything that rises must converge'' / Wayne C. Booth
On ''Good country people'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland
Casebook four: Graphic storytelling: What the little old ladies feel / Alison Bechdel
From "Alternative comics: toward the habit of questioning" / Charles Hatfield
Are comics serious literature / Michael Kupperman
From understanding comics: Invisible art / Scott McCloud
Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum
Some reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco / Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading short stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'')
Elements of fiction
Brief history of the short story
Writing about short stories
Literary theory and critical perspectives
Glossary of literary terms
Chronological listing of authors' stories
Chronological listing of authors and stories
Index of authors and titles