Library of America #243

"Of the eighty-four stories gathered here, fifty-three first appeared in The New Yorker. Most were revised by the author for his collections, Problems (1979), Trust Me (1987), The Afterlife (1994), Licks of Love (2000), and My Father's Tears (2009). All were written from 1976 to 2008, when Updike was in his mid-forties to mid-seventies, and are arranged here, for the first time, in the order in which they were completed. Each is offered in its latest, definitive text, and some incorporate posthumous corrections found in Updike's personal copies of his books"--From publisher description

Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- Fairy godfathers -- Egg race -- Parade -- Faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- Lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- City -- Learn a trade -- Ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First wives and trolley cars -- Other -- One more interview -- Slippage -- Poker night -- Made in heaven -- Getting into the set -- Wallet -- Other woman -- Beautiful husbands -- Leaf season -- Afterlife -- Wildlife -- Burglar alarm -- Conjunction -- Brother grasshopper -- Spat -- Journey to the dead -- Football factory -- Part of the process -- Lens factory -- Man who became a soprano -- Short Easter -- A sandstone farmhouse -- Other side of the street -- Aperto, chiuso -- Tristan and Iseult -- Farrell's caddie -- Rumor -- Falling asleep up north -- Brown chest -- His mother inside him -- Bluebeard in Ireland -- Baby's first step -- Playing with dynamite -- Scenes from the fifties -- Black room -- Cruise -- Women who got away -- Lunch hour -- New York girl -- Cats -- My father on the verge of disgrace -- Licks of love in the heart of the Cold War -- Oliver's evolution -- Natural color -- How was it, really? -- Metamorphosis -- Personal archaeology -- Free -- Guardians -- Walk with Elizanne -- Laughter of the gods -- Varieties of religious experience -- Spanish prelude to a second marriage -- Delicate wives -- Accelerating expansion of the universe -- German lessons -- Road home -- My father's tears -- Kinderszenen -- Apparition -- Blue light -- Outage -- Full glass