Library of America #242

Of the 102 stories gathered here, 80 first appeared in the New Yorker. Most were revised by the author for his collections. All were written between 1953 and 1975, when Updike was in his twenties, thirties, and early forties, and are arranged here, for the first time, in the order in which they were completed

Ace in the hole -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A game of Botticelli -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth -- Dentistry and doubt -- Kid's whistling -- Toward evening -- Snowing in Greenwich Village -- Who made yellow roses yellow? -- His finest hour -- Sunday teasing -- Lucid eye in silver town -- A trillion feet of gas -- Incest -- A gift from the city -- Intercession -- Alligators -- Happiest I've been -- Walter Briggs -- Persistence of desire -- Still life -- Flight -- Should Wizard hit Mommy? -- Dear Alexandros -- A sense of shelter -- Wife-wooing -- Pigeon feathers -- Home -- Archangel -- Sea's green sameness -- You'll never know, dear, how much I love you -- Astronomer -- A & P -- Doctor's wife -- Lifeguard -- Crow in the woods -- Blessed man of Boston, my grandmother's thimble, and Fanning Island -- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car -- Unstuck -- In football season -- Indian -- A madman -- My uncle's death -- Solitaire -- Leaves -- Stare -- Museums and women -- Avec la bébé-sitter -- Four sides of one story -- Morning -- At a bar in Charlotte Amalie -- Christian roommates -- My lover has dirty fingernails -- Eclipse -- Harv is plowing now -- Music school -- Rescue -- Dark -- God speaks -- Bulgarian poetess -- Family meadow -- Man and daughter in the cold -- Hermit -- During the Jurassic -- Witnesses -- Pro -- Slump -- Under the microscope -- Corner -- Day of the dying rabbit -- I am dying, Egypt, dying -- Cemeteries -- Deacon -- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me -- One of my generation -- Hillies -- Orphaned swimming pool -- Plumbing -- Carol sing -- Minutes of the last meeting -- Baluchitherium -- Tarbox police -- When everyone was pregnant -- Beloved -- Invention of the horse collar -- Jesus on Honshu -- Commercial -- Gun shop -- Believers -- How to love America and leave it at the same time -- Nevada -- Son -- Daughter, last glimpses of -- Ethiopia -- Transaction -- Augustine's concubine -- Killing -- Chaste planet -- A constellation of events -- Man who loved extinct mammals -- Problems -- Love song, for a Moog synthesizer