You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe
Pages: 640
|Published: 1 Jan 1994
Description
Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most.
A mother's tale / James Agee --
Guy de Maupassant / Isaac Babel --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
The school / Donald Barthelme --
The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges --
A day in the open / Jane Bowles --
A distant episode / Paul Bowles --
The Star Cafe / Mary Caponegro --
Reflections / Angela Carter --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Goodbye, my brother / John Cleever --
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov --
A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
Pie dance / Molly Giles --
Greatness strikes where it pleases / Lars Gustafsson --
The interview / Ruth Prawer Jlabvala --
The dead / James Joyce. In the penal colony / Franz Kafka --
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --
The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector --
The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield --
Labor day dinner / Alice Munro --
Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov --
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --
Wants / Grace Paley --
In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz --
The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Helping / Robert Stone --
Master and man / Leo Tolstoy. Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car / John Updike --
The flowers / Alice Walker --
No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty --
Paper garden / Jerome Wilson
A mother's tale / James Agee --
Guy de Maupassant / Isaac Babel --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
The school / Donald Barthelme --
The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges --
A day in the open / Jane Bowles --
A distant episode / Paul Bowles --
The Star Cafe / Mary Caponegro --
Reflections / Angela Carter --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Goodbye, my brother / John Cleever --
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov --
A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
Pie dance / Molly Giles --
Greatness strikes where it pleases / Lars Gustafsson --
The interview / Ruth Prawer Jlabvala --
The dead / James Joyce. In the penal colony / Franz Kafka --
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --
The smallest woman in the world / Clarice Lispector --
The daughters of the late colonel / Katherine Mansfield --
Labor day dinner / Alice Munro --
Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov --
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --
Wants / Grace Paley --
In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz --
The man to send rain clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Helping / Robert Stone --
Master and man / Leo Tolstoy. Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car / John Updike --
The flowers / Alice Walker --
No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty --
Paper garden / Jerome Wilson
