Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1999]
©1999
©1999
DESCRIPTION
xxiv, 775 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0395843685
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series
CONTENTS
Zelig /
Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Little selves /
Mary Lerner -- A jury of her peers /
Susan Glaspell -- Other woman /
Sherwood Anderson -- Golden honeymoon /
Ring Lardner -- Blood-burning moon /
Jean Toomer -- Killers /
Ernest Hemingway -- Double birthday /
Willa Cather -- Wild plums /
Grace Stone Coates -- Theft /
Katherine Anne Porter -- That evening sun go down /
William Faulkner -- Here we are /
Dorothy Parker -- Crazy Sunday /
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- My dead brother comes to America /
Alexander Godin -- Resurrection of a life /
William Saroyan -- Christmas gift /
Robert Penn Warren -- Bright and morning star /
Richard Wright -- Hitch-hikers /
Eudora Welty -- Peach stone /
Paul Horgan -- "That in Aleppo once..." /
Vladimir Nabokov -- Interior castle /
Jean Stafford -- Miami-New York /
Martha Gellhorn -- Second tree from the corner /
E.B. White -- Farmer's children /
Elizabeth Bishop -- Death of a favorite /
J.F. Powers -- Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin /
Tennessee Williams -- Country husband /
John Cheever -- Greenleaf /
Flannery O'Connor -- Ledge /
Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Defender of the faith /
Philip Roth -- Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers /
Stanley Elkin -- German refugee /
Bernard Malamud -- Where are you going, where have you been? /
Joyce Carol Oates -- Rotifer /
Mary Ladd Gavell -- Gold Coast /
James Alan McPherson -- Key /
Isaac Bashevis Singer -- A city of churches /
Donald Barthelme -- How to win /
Rosellen Brown -- Roses, rhododendron /
Alice Adams -- Verona : a young woman speaks /
Harold Brodkey -- A silver dish /
Saul Bellow -- Gesturing /
John Updike -- Shawl /
Cynthia Ozick -- Where I'm calling from /
Raymond Carver -- Janus /
Ann Beattie -- Way we live now /
Susan Sontag -- Things they carried /
Tim O'Brien -- Meneseteung /
Alice Munro -- You're ugly, too /
Lorrie Moore -- I want to live ! /
Thom Jones -- In the gloaming /
Alice Elliott Dark -- Proper library /
Carolyn Ferrell -- Birthmates /
Gish Jen -- Soon /
Pam Durban -- Half-skinned steer /
Annie Proulx