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From the Serial
1983: A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
My Warszawa / Joyce Carol Oates
Victrola / Wright Morris
Melanie and the Purple People Eaters / Irvin Faust
Jean-Pierre / Elizabeth Spencer
If a woodchuck could chuck wood / W. D. Wetherell
The city / John Updike
When the Lord calls / Gloria Norris
My life as a West African gray parrot / Leigh Buchanan Bienen
Shards / David Jauss
The only son of the doctor / Mary Gordon
The ponoes / Peter Meinke
Putting & gardening / William F. Van Wert
Feasting / Elizabeth Benedict
Slow-motion / Steven Schwartz
Heartbeat / Linda Svendsen
Poor boy / Lynda Lloyd
The secret life of dieters / Perri Klass
The dogs in Renoir's garden / Gloria Whelan
Work / David Plante.
1984: Rosa / Cynthia Ozick
Revive us again / Gloria Norris
Risk / Charles Dickinson
Counting months / David Leavitt
Conveniences / Edith Pearlman
Alaska / Alice Adams
The Old Left / Daniel Menaker
Living alone in Iota / Lee K. Abbott, Jr.
A private landscape / Melissa Brown Pritchard
The model / Bernard Malamud
The third count / Andrew Fetler
Lost sons / James Salter
Prayer for the dying / Willis Johnson
The life and times of Major Fiction / Jonathan Baumbach
The artificial moonlight / Donald Justice
The Evolution of Birds of Paradise / Elizabeth Tallent
Not a good girl / Perri Klass
The story hearer / Grace Paley
The love child / Helen Norris
For Jerome
with love and kisses / Gordon Lish.
1985: Lily / Jane Smiley
Hot ice / Stuart Dybeck
In the white night / Ann Beattie
The quarry / Helen Norris
Lust / Susan Minot
Bread and butter questions / Claude Koch
Glimpse into another country / Wright Morris
Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich
Daughter of the revolution / Joseph McElroy
The Crow Woman / Steve Heller
About Boston / Ward Just
Sister / Tobias Wolff
Holding on / Gloria Norris
Homework / Peter Cameron
Taking a chance on Jack / Ilene Raymond
The axe, the axe, the axe / Eric Wilson
The seasons / Joyce Carol Oates
She should have died hereafter / Rolaine Hochstein
The mango community / Josephine Jacobsen
The other / John Updike.
1986: Kindred spirits / Alice Walker
Pet Milk / Stuart Dybek
Crazy ladies / Greg Johnson
The comedian / John L'Heureux
Offerings / Joyce R. Kornblatt
The Costa Brava, 1959 / Ward Just
Uncle George and Uncle Stefan / Peter Meinke
Big Bertha stories / Bobbie Ann Mason
I don't believe this / Merrill Joan Gerber
Resurrection / Gordon Lish
Excerpts from Swan Lake / Peter Cameron
Molly's dog / Alice Adams
Transactions in a foreign currency / Deborah Eisenberg
The garden of redemption / Anthony DiFranco
Dirt angel / Jeanne Wilmot
The cousins / Elizabeth Spencer
The year of the hot jock / Irvin Faust
Kid MacArthur / Stephanie Vaughn
Master race / Joyce Carol Oates.
1987: Fleur / Louise Erdrich
The children's wing / Joyce Johnson
The darkness of love / Robert Boswell
Tide pools / Alice Adams
Blight / Stuart Dybek
The Janeites / James Lott
Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme
The Island of Ven / Gina Berriault
The village / Jim Pitzen
What feels like the world / Richard Bausch
Monitor / Millicent Dillon
Big Dog / Norman Lavers
Lady of Spain / Robert Taylor, Jr.
The singing well / Helen Norris
Midrash on happiness / Grace Paley
Taking care / Lewis Horne
Up home / Warren Wallace
Ancient airs, voices / Joyce Carol Oates
The Interpretations of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: a story / Daniel Stern
I get by / Mary Robison.
1988: Errand / Raymond Carver - Ocracoke island / Alice Adams -Blessings / Andre Dubus - The Business venture / Elizabeth Spencer - The Wars of heaven / Richard Currey - The Place to be / Shirley Hazzard - Yarrow / Joyce Carol Oates - Dolphin dreaming / Peter Lasalle - Rot / Joy Williams - The Gangster's ghost / Salvatore La Puma - Bumblebees / Bobbie Ann Mason - Cecil grounded / Richard Plant - Honey / Ann Beattie - Don't worry about the kids / Jay Neugeboren -The Halfway diner / John Sayles - The Mountain / Sheila Kohler - Long distance by Jane Smiley - Arcola girls / Philip F. Deaver - The Dinner party / Jonathan Baumbach - Leaf season / John Updike.
1989: Peacocks / Ernest J. Finney
House hunting / Joyce Carol Oates
Edie : a life / Harriet Doerr
The sky fading upward to yellow : a footnote to literary history / Jean Ross
CV10 / Starkey Flythe, Jr.
After you've gone / Alice Adams
History / Frances Sherwood
Death of a duke / Banning K. Lary
Sinking house / T. Coraghessan Boyle
The hit / Catherine Petroski
American express / James Salter
Here and there / David Foster Wallace
^Ile Seche / Susan Minot
Wrong stories / Millicent Dillon
Clandestine acts / Charles Simmons
Avid / John Casey
To be / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The watch / Rick Bass
Unstable ground / Ellen Herman
Child in the leaves / Charles Dickinson.
1990: The Eleventh Edition / Leo E. Litwak
Lumumba lives / Peter Matthiessen
The reverse bug / Lore Segal
Heat / Joyce Carol Oates
The grands / Carolyn Osborn
Unidentified objects / James P. Blaylock
Sins against animals / Jane Brown Gillette
The private life of Robert Schumann / Julie Schumacher
Elizabeth Baird / Joanne Greenberg
1940: fall / Alice Adams
The ape lady in retirement / T. Coraghessan Boyle
The island of the mapmaker's wife / Marilyn Sides
Stand / David Michael Kaplan
In recent history / Meredith Steinbach
Einstein's daughter / Claudia Smith Brinson
The forecasting game: a story / Felicia Ackerman - - The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight
The autobiography of Gertrude Stein
In which John imagines his mind as a pond / Devon Jersild
Vito loves Geraldine / Janice Eidus.
1991: Sandstone farmhouse
Swimmers
Overland
Ashes
Saul and Patsy are pregnant
Hand, cup, shell
Powwow
Hippies, Indians, buffalo
For women everywhere
Nothing to ask for
Raisin faces
Ilui
Very pineapple
Oil and water
Ecco
Earthquake damage
Moscow nights
Apple-green Triumph
Talking to the dead
During the twelfth summer of Elmer D. Peterson.
1992: Puttermesser paired / Cynthia Ozick
English as a second language / Lucy Honig
Tom McNeal
Pinocchio's nose / Amy Herrick
Decor / Murray Pomerance
Why don't you come live with me it's time / Joyce Carol Oates
Acts of kindness / Mary Michael Wagner
Red lipstick / Yolanda Barnes
Blue Spruce / David Long
Way stations / Harriet Doerr
Dedication / Perri Klass
People / Daniel Meltzer
The kite / Les Myers
With Seth in Tana Toraja / Ken Chowder
The last lovely city / Alice Adams
Demiurges / Frances Sherwood
The control group / Antonya Nelson
Lost in L. A. / Millicent Dillon
The mine from Nicaragua / Kent Nelson
Babies / Ann Packer
Tall tales from Mekong Delta / Kate Baverman.
1993: The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones
Winter barley / Andrea Lee
Shaking / William F. Van Wert
Goose-girl / Joyce Carol Oates
Yellow flags / Charles Eastman
Risk / Cornelia Nixon
The killing blanket / Rilla Askew
Dirty words / Antonya Nelson
The pink house / John H. Richardson
A modern love story / Diane Levenberg
Newark job / John Van Kirk
The islands / Alice Adams
The rare Muscovite / Stephen Dixon
Charades / Lorrie Moore
Improving my average / Kate Wheeler
The Greek head / Peter Weltner
The man who died / C. E. Poverman
Puerto Vallarta / Jennifer Egan
Kwoon / Charles Johnson
The edger man / Linda Svendsen
A hunger artist by Franz Kafka: a story / Daniel Stern
The pier-glass / Josephine Jacobsen
Madagascar / Steven Schwartz.
1994: Better be ready 'bout half past eight / Alison Baker
The Voyage out / John Rolfe Gardiner
Terrific mother / Lorrie Moore
We didn't / STuart Dybek
Jeremiah's road / Marlin Barton
Not the Phil Donahue show / Kelly Cherry
The Third of July / Elizabeth Cox
Games / Terry Bain
Semper Fidelis / Amy Bloom
Rise and shine / Michael Fox
Marine Corps issue / David McLean
The Boy who fell forty feet / Elizabeth Graver
The Hanging in the foaling barn / Susan Starr Richards
Pandora's box / Janice Eidus
Nada / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Elaine's house / Mary Tannen
Gook / Dennis Trudell
Where she was / Helen Fremont
The Oracle / Elizabeth Oness
Labor / Katherine L. Hester
Landing zone x-ray / Thomas E. Kennedy.
1995: $t The women come and go / $r Cornelia Nixon
$t Talking to Charlie / $r John J. Clayton
$t Shot : a New York story / $r Elizabeth Hardwick
$t Trick or treat / $r Padgett Powell
$t The haunted beach / $r Alice Adams
$t Cantor Pepper / $r Elliot Krieger
$t Departing / $r Peter Cameron
$t Sarah / $r Allegra Goodman
$t The stucco house / $r Ellen Gilchrist
$t You petted me, and I followed you home / $r Joyce Carol Oates
$t Settled on the Cranberry Coast / $r Michael Byers
$t The intruder / $r David Gates
$t Across the lake
$r Deborah Eisenberg
$t Truth serum / $r Bernard Cooper
$t The drowning / $r Edward J. Delaney
$t Loving Wanda Beaver / $r Alison Baker
$t The black room / $r John Updike
$t Star box / $r Anne Whitney Pierce
$t Kiss away / $r Charles Baxter
$t If this letter were a beaded object / $r Robin Bradford
$t City sidewalks / $r Perri Klaas.
1996: The man in the black suit / Stephen King --
If you sing like that for me / Akhil Sharma --
Stones / William Hoffman --
Skin deep / T. M. McNally --
Convocations / Alison Baker --
Mark of Satan / Joyce Carol Oates --
Influenza / Daniel Menaker --
Citizens review / Lucy Honig --
His women / Alice Adams --
Grant / Ellen Douglas --
Buffalo safety / David Wiegand --
Til death us do part / Becky Hagenston --
Dummies / Julie Schumacher --
Will you say something, Monsieur Eliot? / Tom Paine --
The life of the body / Jane Smiley --
The thief / Walter Mosley --
Between / Elizabeth Graver --
Players / Leonard Kriegel --
Alice / Frederick G. Dillen --
Somebody up there likes me / Ralph Lombreglia.
1997: City life / Mary Gordon --
Falls / George Saunders --
Talk talked between worms / Lee K. Abbott --
On with the story / John Barth --
Love of a good woman / Alice Munro --
TWA corbies / Carolyn Cooke --
Catface / Arthur bradford --
Dancing after hours / Andre Dubus --
Royal palms / Matthew Klam --
Lipstick tree / Kiana Davenport --
Red house / Ian MacMillan --
Comfort / Mary Gaitskill --
Balm of Gilead tree / Robert Morgan --
Final inning / Thomas Glave --
Mermaids / Deborah Eisenberg --
Old farmhouse and the dog-wife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer --
Taxi ride / Patricia Elam Ruff --
Mirrors / Carol Shields --
His chorus / Christine Schutt --
Demonology / Rick Moody.
1998: People like that are the only people here / Lorrie Moore --
The knife thrower / Steven Millhauser --
The children stay / Alice Munro --
Flower children / Maxine Swann --
Two brothers / Brian Evenson --
Winky / George Saunders --
Me and my enemy / Karen Heuler --
Tarantula / Thom Jones --
Gare du nord / Suketu Mehta --
Eating dirt / Carolyn Cooke --
Relief / Peter Ho Davies --
Boot / Reginald McKnight --
Crimson / Josip Novakovich --
Movietone : detour / Peter Weltner --
Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma --
Ashes / D.R. MacDonald --
The myth of the bears / Rick Bass --
Satan : hijacker of a planet / Louise Erdrich --
The chimpanzees of Wyoming Territory / Don Zancanella --
Brokeback Mountain / Annie Proulx.
1999: A nurse's story / Peter Baida
Merry-go-sorry / Cary Holladay
Save the reaper / Alice Munro
The depressed person / David Foster Wallace
Cataract / Pam Houston
Sea oak / George Saunders
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Nixon under the bodhi tree / Gerald Reilly
Mister brother / Michael Cunningham
Moon / Chaim Potok
Burning / Robert Schirmer
Watching girls play / W.D. Wetherell
Afterbirth / Sheila M. Schwartz
Son of the wolfman / Michael Chabon
Miracle boy / Pinckney Benedict
The underground gardens / T. Coraghessan Boyle
Fork used in eating Reverend Baker / Kiana Davenport
Sign / Charlotte Forbes
A tortoise for the queen of Tonga / Julia Whitty
The mud below / Annie Proulx.
2000: Weight / John Edgar Wideman
The man with the lapdog / Beth Lordan
The deacon / Mary Gordon
Plains of Abraham / Russell Banks
Flush / Judy Budnitz
These hands / Kevin Brockmeier
Salve Regina / Melissa Prichard
The smallest people alive / Keith Banner
Bones of the inner ear / Kiana Davenport
The fool's proxy / J. Robert Lennon
He's at the office / Allan Gurganus
The gilgul of Park Avenue / Nathan Englander
Theories of rain / Andrea Barrett
Whileaway / Jeannette Bertles
Rose / John Biguenet
The gardens of Kyoto / Kate Walbert
Easy pickings / Tim Gautreaux
The beautiful days / Michael Byers
Watch the animals / Alice Elliott Dark
Kindling / Raymond Carver.
2001: The Deep / Mary Swan --
Big me / Dan Chaon --
Floating bridge / Alice Munro --
That winter / Fred G. Leebron --
The love of my life --
R. Coraghessan Boyle --
The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates --
The smoker / David Schickler --
Female trouble / Antonya Nelson --
The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver --
Zog 19: a scientific romance / Pinckney Benedict --
At the Jim Bridger / Ron Carlson --
Revival road / Louise Erdich --
The paperhanger / William Gay --
Bliss / Dale Peck --
Bow down / Murad Kalam --
Pastoralia / George Saunders --
Servants of the map / Andrea Barrett.
2002: The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier --
Scordatura / Mark Ray Lewis --
The butcher's wife / Louise Erdrich --
Do not disturb / A.M. Homes --
Memento mori / Jonathan Nolan --
Seven / Edwidge Danticat --
The hunter's wife / Anthony Doerr --
Egg-face / Mary Yukari Waters --
The possible husband / Don Lee --
Big Bend / Bill Roorbach --
Charity / Richard Ford --
Like it or not / Deborah Eisenberg --
The lives of strangers / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni --
That last odd day in L.A. / Ann Beattie --
George Lassos Moon / David Gates --
Blood poison / Heidi Jon Schmidt --
Speonk / David Leavitt --
Anthropology / Andrea Lee --
Family furnishings / Alice Munro --
Good old neon / David Foster Wallace.
2003: Introduction / Laura Furman
The thing in the forest / A.S. Byatt
The shell collector / Anthony Doerr
Burn your maps / Robyn Joy Leff
Lush / Bradford Morrow
God's goodness / Marjorie Kemper
Bleed blue in Indonesia / Adam Desnoyers
The story / Edith Pearlman
Swept away / T. Coraghessan Boyle
Meanwhile / Ann Harleman
Three days. A month. More. / Douglas Light
The high road / Joan Silber
Election eve / Evan S. Connell
Irish girl / Tim Johnston
What went wrong / Tim O'Brien
The American embassy / Chimamanda Nqozi Adichie
Kissing / William Kittredge
Sacred statues / William Trevor
Two words / Molly Giles
Fathers / Alice Munro
Train dreams / Denis Johnson.
2005: Mudlavia / Elizabeth Stuckey-French
The brief history of the dead / Kevin Brockmeier
The golden era of heartbreak / Michael Parker
The hurt man / Wendell Berry
The Tutor / Nell Freudenberger
Fantasy for eleven fingers / ben Fountain
The high divide / Charles D'Ambrosio
Desolation / Gail Jones
A Rich man / Edward P. Jones
Dues / Dale Peck
Speckle trout / Ron Rash
Sphinxes / Timothy Crouse
Grace / Paula Fox
Snowbound / Liza Ward
Tea / Nancy Reisman
Christie / Caitlin Macy
Refuge in London / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The drowned woman / Frances de Pontes Peebles
The card trick / Tessa Hadley
What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie
Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005
Writing the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005.
2006: Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones
You go when you can no longer stay / Jackie Kay
Mule killers / Lydia Peele
The broad estates of death / Paula Fox
The pelvis series / Neela Vaswani
Conceived / David Lawrence Morse
The dressmaker's child / William Trevor
Disquisition on tears / Stephanie Reents
Sault Ste. Marie / David Means
Unction / Karen Brown
'80s lilies / Terese Svoboda
Passion / Alice Munro
The center of the world / George Makana Clark
Wolves / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Girls I know / Douglas Trevor
The plague of doves / Louise Erdich
Famine / Xu Xi
Puffed rice and meatballs / Lara Vapnyar
Letters in the snow
for kind strangers and unborn children
for the ones lost and most beloved / Melanie Rae Thon
Window / Deborah Eisenberg.
2007: Room / William Trevor
Scent of cinnamon / Charles Lambert
Cherubs / Justine Dymond
Galveston Bay, 1826 / Eddie Chuculate
Gift of years / Vu Tran
Diarist / Richard McCann
War buddies / Joan Silber
Djamilla / Tony D'Souza
In a bear's eye / Yannick Murphy
Summer, with twins / Rebecca Curtis
Mudder tongue / Brian Evenson
Companion / Sana Krasikov
A stone house / Bay Anapol
Company of men / Jan Ellison
City visit / Adam Haslett
Duchess of Albany / Christine Schutt
New kind of gravity / Andrew Foster Altschul
Gringos / Ariel Dorfman
El ojo de agua / Susan Straight
View from Castle Rock / Alice Munro.
2008: A composer and his parakeets / Ha Jin
Other people's deaths / Lore Segal
Village 113 / Anthony Doerr
A change in fashion / Steven Millhauser
The transitional object / Sheila Kohler
On the lake / Olaf Olafsson
Taiping / Brittani Sonnenberg
What do you want to know for? / Alice Munro
The necessity of certain behaviors / Shannon Cain
A game of cards / Rose Tremain
Touch / Alexi Zentner
Bad neighbors / Edward P. Jones
Every move you make / David Malouf
Scenes from the life of the only girl in Water Shield, Alaska / Tony Tulathimutte
The bullock run / Roger McDonald
Prison / Yiyun Li
Bye-bye Natalia / Michel Faber
Folie aþ deux / William Trevor
The little boy / Mary Gaitskill
A little history of modern music / William H. Gass.
From the Serial
1963: Introduction / by Richard Poirier
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
The snake / Ervin D. Krause
The education of a queen / Thalia Selz
Gaston / William Saroyan
In a cold hotel / Ben Maddow
Pontifex / Sylvia Berkman
The burglar / Norma Klein
The road out of Axotle / Terry Southern
The picnickers / Jessamyn West
The rise of the proletariat / J. G. McClure
The threesome / Helen Essary Ansell
The golden crane / James Trammell Cox
The fine white mist of winter / J. C. Oates
On the lake / Ellen Douglas.
1964: The embarkment for Cythera / John Cheever
Stigmata / Joyce Carol Oates
The everlasting witness / Margaret Shedd
The Jewbird / Bernard Malamud
The banks of the Ohio / Sallie Bingham
Night and day, day and night / Lillian Ross
The metamorphosis of Kenko / David Stacton
The inhabitants of Venus / Irwin Shaw
The scream on 57th Street / Hortense Calisher
Something just for me / George Lanning
Thompson / George A. Zorn
So I'm not Lady Chatterley so better I should know it now / Sara
Old and country tale / Shirley W. Schoonover
Novotny's pain / Philip Roth
Carrion Spring / Wallace Stegner.
1965: Introduction / by William Abrahams
Revelation / Flannery O'Connor
Ocean / Sanford Friedman
The ballad of Jesse Neighbours / William Humphrey
Homecoming / Tom Mayer
Mama and the spy / Eva Manoff
Sunday's children / Nancy A.J. Potter
Margins / Donald Barthelme
If lost return to the Swiss Arms / Leon Rooke
There / Peter Taylor
Come Lady Death / Peter S. Beagle
First views of the enemy / Joyce Carol Oates
Fifty-fifty / Leonard Wolf
Sucker / Carson McCullers
Love in the winter / Daniel Curley
A woman of her age / Jack Ludwig
What I wish (oh, I wish) I had said that / Arthur Cavanaugh
The hounds of summer / Mary McCarthy
Chaos, disorder and the late show / Warren Miller.
1966: Bulgarian poetess / John Updike
Sherry / Maureen Howard
On the edge of Arcadia / Tom Cole
Sticks and stones / Leonard Michaels
Ship Island / Elizabeth Spencer
Prison / Harry Mark Petrakis
Alice Blaine / Vera Randal
One of you must be Wendell Corey / Philip L. Greene
Sunday lunch / Nancy Hale
Roomer / Joy Williams
Man of affairs / Christopher Davis
Birthday party / Gina Berriault
Mr and Mrs. McGill / George A. Zorn
To the open water / Jesse Hill Ford
Bare bones / Sallie Bingham
Mighty distance / Georgia McKinley.
1967: Oates, J.C. In the region of ice.
Barthelme, D. See the moon?
Strong, J. Supperburger.
Ford, J. H. The bitter bread.
Mudrick, M. Cleopatra.
Goldman, M. Fireflies.
Jacobsen, J. On the island.
Buechler, J. The second best girl.
Updike, J. Marching through Boston.
Finney, E. J. The investigator.
Oliver, D. Neighbors.
Kurtz, M. R. Waxing wroth.
Knickerbocker, C. Diseases of the heart.
Macauley, R. Dressed in shade.
Wheelis, A. Sea-girls.
Yates, R. A good and gallant woman.
1968: Dark days of Christmas
New nobility
Storm still
Nigger horse
Teacher
Most elegant drawing room in Europe
Kind of savage
Icarus again
My redeemer cometh
Near the line
MAgic
Ebbets Field
Where are you going, where have you been?
Little brother nun
The demonstrators
Your lover just called
How you play the game.
1969: Man in the drawer / Bernard Malamud
Accomplished desires / Joyce Carol Oates
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
Early morning, lonely ride / Nancy Huddleston Packer
In shock / Leo Litwak
Manikin / Leonard Michaels
The common courtesies / Anne Tyler
The invitations / Evelyn Shefner
To be an athlete / Eunice Luccock Corfman
First heat / Peter Taylor
Bedlam's rent / Thomas Sterling
Service / Michael Rubin
Distance / Grace Paley
You, Johann Sebastian Bach / Ben Maddow
Color the daydream yellow / Max Steele
The empire of things / H.L. Mountzoures
Lambs of God / Susan Engberg
The empire of things
Lambs of God.
1970: The girl who sang with the Beatles / Robert Hemenway ("Stephen Patch")
The biggest thing since Custer / William Eastlake
A cliff of fall / Norval Rindfleisch
It's cold out there / Perdita Buchan
A modern development / George Blake
Patients / Jonathan Strong
Joe College
H. E. F. Donohue
Am Strande Von Tanger / James Salter
My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud
Nights at O'Rear's / Patricia Browning Griffith
Saint John of the Hershey Kisses: 1964 / Tom Cole
Bech takes pot luck / John Updike
A day in Operations / David Grinstead
Theo's girl / Nancy Willard
Of cabbages and kings / James Alan McPherson
Unmailed, unwritten letters / Joyce Carol Oates
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates.
1971: Introduction / William Abrahams
Twin bed bridge / Florence M. Hecht
Did you once see Shelly / Guy A. Cardwell
Gift of grass / Alice Adams
Waiting at Dachau / Reynolds Price
Skylark / Julian Mazor
Stone lovers / Evelyn Harter
Troop withdrawal-the initial step / Thomas Parker
I'll call you / Robert Inman
Jungle of Lord Lion / Josephine Jacobsen
Children / Joyce Carol Oates
Flashlight / Eldridge Cleaver
Jujitsu / Eleanor Ross Taylor
Dichotomy / Philip L. Greene
Mars revisited / Stephen Minot
Up from slavery / Charles R. Larson
Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz / Leonard Michaels
Final fate of the alligators / Edward Hoagland.
1972: Strange-dreaming Charlie, cow-eyed Charlie / John Batki
Saul Bird says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate! / Joyce Carol Oates
Small sounds and tilting shadows / Judith Rascoe
Lambing out / Mary Clearman - - Point of conversion / Starkey Flythe , Jr.
Fat girl / Brendan Gill
With all flags flying / Anne Tyler
The destruction of the Goetheanum / James Salter
On the desert / Patricia Zelver
The lizard / Elaine Gottleib
On the shore of Chad Creek / Jack Matthews
Ripped off / Alice Adams
A letter to Ismael in the grave / Rosellen Brown
The case of the missing photographs / Charles Edward Eaton
In the forests of Riga the beasts are very wild indeed / Margery Finn Brown
Allonym / J. D. McClatchy
A death on the East Side / Herbert Gold
Subpoena / Donald Barthelme.
1973: The dead / Joyce Carol Oates
Talking horse / Bernard Malamud - - Mainlanders / Rosellen Brown
The flood / Patricia Zelver
The silver bullet / James Alan McPherson
The fugitives / John Malone
The swastika on our door / Alice Adams
A line of order / Judith Rascoe
What is it? / Raymond Carver
The enemy / Jane Mayhall
An apple, an orange / Diane Johnson
The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever
A walk with Raschid / Josephine Jacobsen
Scotch sour / David Shaber
Trespasser / Curt Johnson
Photographs / Henry Bromell
The death of Cousin Stanley / Shirley Sikes
Detritus / Randall Reid.
1974: Brownstone / Renata Adler
Lizzie Borden in the p.m. / Robert Henson
Alternatives / Alice Adams
Is anyone left this time of year? / Frederick Busch
Cambridge is sinking! / John J. Clayton
The things / John Gardner
Via negativa / James Salter
Bakti's hand / Blair Fuller
Troy Street / Robert Hemenway
What kind of a man cuts his finger off? / Rolaine Hochstein
The fish trap / Peter Leach
The wrong man / Norma Klein
Robot / Guy Davenport
Put yourself in my shoes / Raymond Carver
The faithful / James Alan McPherson
The death of Sun / William Eastlake
Out in the garage.
1975: A story in an almost classical mode / Harold Brodkey
Usurpation (Other people's stories) / Cynthia Ozick
Verlie I say unto you / Alice Adams
Are you a doctor? / Raymond Carver
Ramona by the sea
Susannah McCorkle
Angel / Eve Shelnutt
Art history / Ann Arensberg
Ragtime / E. L. Doctorow
Over by the river / William Maxwell
Getting into death / Thomas M. Disch
Norwegians / Patricia Zelver
Certain hard places / Linda Arking
The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson
With Che at Kitty Hawk / Russell Banks
Nakedness / John Updike
Alvira, Lettie, and Pip / Jessie Schell
Department store / Ann Bayer
Swimmer in the secret sea / William Kotzwinkle.
1976: Wash far away
His son, in his arms, in light, aloft
Why I quit the Gowanus Liberation front
Idols of afternoon
Actes and monuments
Richard Nixon Freischutz rag
Chronicle of love
Bridge of music, river of sand
Dust
Sisterhood
Leaving the church
Theft
Nel Bagno
Night march
Enemy of the people
I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205
Past the island, drifting
Blood-swollen landscape
Separating
Roses, Rhododendron.
1977: Leffland, E. Last courtesies.
Hazzard, S. A long story short.
Fetler, A. Shadows on the water.
Ballantyne, S. Perpetual care.
Minot, S. A passion for history.
Theroux, P. The autumn dog.
Summers, H. A hundred paths.
Zelver, P. The little pub.
Simmons, C. Certain changes.
Hedin, M. Ladybug, fly away home.
Adams, A. Flights.
Russ, J. Autobiography of my mother.
McCully, E.A. How's your vacuum cleaner working?
Colwin, L. The lone pilgrim.
Sayles, J. Breed.
Dixon, S. Mac in love.
Engberg, S. A stay by the river.
Cheever, J. The President of the Argentine.
1978: Allen, W. The Kugelmass episode.
Schorer, M. A lamp.
Henson, R. The upper and the lower millstone.
Adams, A. Beautiful girl.
Apple, M. Paddycake, paddycake...a memoir.
Engberg, S. Pastorale.
Fuller, B. All right.
Oates, J.C. The tattoo.
Jacobsen, J. Jack Frost.
O'Brien, T. Speaking of courage.
Schell, J. Undeveloped photographs.
Clayton, J.J. Bodies like mouths.
Leviant, C. Ladies and gentlemen, the original music of the Hebrew alphabet.
Brodkey, H. Verona: a young woman speaks.
Schevill, J. A hero in the highway.
Pearlman, E. Hanging fire.
Helprin, M. The Schreuderspitze.
Schaeffer, S.F. The exact nature of plot.
1979: Weaver, G. Getting serious.
Bromell, H. Travel stories.
Hecht, J. I want you, I need you, I love you.
Goldberg, L. Shy bearers.
Heller, S. The summer game.
Pfeil, F. The quality of light in Maine.
Leaton, A. The passion of Marco Z
.
Thomas, A. Coon hunt.
Molyneux, T.W. Visiting the point.
Oates, J.C. In the autumn of the year.
Baumbach, J. Passion?
Zelver, P. My father's jokes.
Gold, H. The smallest part.
Van Dyke, H. Du C^ote de Chez Britz.
Smith, L. Mrs. Darcy meets the blue-eyed stranger at the beach.
Caputi, A. The derby hopeful.
Schwartz, L.S. Rough strife.
Yates, R. Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired.
Peterson, M. Travelling.
Disch, T.M. Xmas.
Adams, A. The girl across the room.
1980: Truth or consequences
Group sex
Cinderella waltz
Silver dish
Ellen Craig
Fatal
All the Pelagiyas
Pitcher
Hopeless acts performed properly with grace
In case of survival
Amanuensis: a tale of creative life
Women in a Roman courtyard
Looking for mother
Priest's wife
Men's club
Snow
Good-bye present
Influx of poets
Elizabeth
Ghosts like them
Old light
Old forest.
1981: The shawl / Cynthia Ozick
Interior space / John Irving
The runner / James Tabor
St. Steven's Green / Kay Boyle
The women who walk / Nancy Huddleston Packer
Between the lines / Lee Smith
Snow / Alice Adams
In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff - - Hope of Zion / Sandra Hollin Flowers
The abortion / Alice Walker
The last abandonment / Jack Matthews
Advent / Marian Novick
The man who loved Levittown / W. D. Wetherell
Mutilated woman / Joyce Carol Oates
Baby / Ivy Goodman
The Waltz Dream / Barbara Reid
The phototropic woman / Annabel Thomas
Brief lives in California / John L'Heureux
Isaac and the undertaker's daughter / Steve Stern
- The separation / Annette T. Rottenberg
World's End / Paul Theroux.
1982: Facing front / Susan Kenney
The future / Joseph McElroy
A postal creed / Ben Brooks
The pleasure of her company / Jane Smiley
Charybdis / T. E. Holt
The jungle of injustice / Nora Johnson
I thought of Chatterton, the marvelous boy / Kenneth Gewertz
La Victoire / Kate Wheeler
Layaways / Stephen Dixon
The gift of the prodigal / Peter Taylor
White boy / Ivy Goodman
Fast love / Michael Malone
The ghost soldiers / Tim O'Brien
The man whom women adored / Joyce Carol Oates
Next door / Tobias Wolff
Infidelities / Florence Trefethen
The greatest slump of all time / David Carkeet
Greyhound people / Alice Adams
To see you again / Alice Adams.
From the Serial
1942: The wide net / Eudora Welty
Two rivers / Wallace Stegner
Windwagon Smith / Wilbur L. Schramm
A long way to go / Jeanne E. Wylie
Their name is macaroni / Kay Boyle
The portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
An interval like this / Robert Gorham Davis
Snow-on-the-mountain / David Cornel DeJong
Two soldiers / William Faulkner
The dear little doves / Eleanor Green
Sunday
1913 / Nancy Hale
The coming of age / Clare Jaynes
Alexander to the park / Josephine Johnson
The workmanship has to be wasted / Alexander Laing
The jockey / Carson McCullers
Yankee odyssey / John Rogers Shuman
How Edith McGillcuddy met R. L. Stevenson / John Steinbeck
The yoodeler / Alison Stuart
Feathers / Richard Sullivan
Basket carry / Jerome Weidman
Hunger / Marjorie Worthington.
1943: Livvie is back.
The knot hole.
The fishermen of Patzcuaro.
The little black boys.
The canals of Mars.
Pigeons en casserole.
The enemy.
The ascent of Ariel Goodbody.
The unfaithful.
Standby.
Black Boy's good time.
Who lived and died believing.
The glass pigeon.
BLinker was a good dog.
A tree. A rock. A cloud.
Knife-like, flower-like, like nothing at all in the world.
White for the living.
She shall have music.
Death and my uncle Felix.
The old she 'gator.
Pecos Bill and the willful coyote
The cane in the corridor.
1945: The wind and the snow of winter / by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Gunners' passage / by Irwin Shaw
Old Bill bent to drink / by Ben Hur Lampman
Flesh and blood / by Laurence Critchell.
1949: A courtship / William Faulkner
The watchman / Mark Van Doren
The white hound / Ward Dorrance.
1950: The blue-winged teal / by Wallace Stegner
The magnolias / by Gudger Bart Leiper
Be nice to Mr. Campbell / by Robert Lowry
The captain is impaled / by Nelson Algren
Death under the hawthorns / by Peggy Bennett
New shoes / by John Berry
Summer evening / by Kay Boyle
Vega / by John Cheever
Mrs. Ketting and Clark Gable / by Ann Chidester
The sardillion / by Elizabeth Enright
The Hardys / by William Humphrey
The lady / by Donald Justice
The hunt / by Susan Kuehn
Comes a day / by Speed Lamkin
Seventy thousand dollars / by Edward Newhouse
Not a soul will come along / by Elizabeth Parsons
The wounded / by Clay Putman
The ruin of soul / by Leonard Wallace Robinson
For Esme
with love and squalor / by J.D. Salinger
Death of a prize fighter / by Robert Switzer
Their losses / by Peter Taylor
Give my love to Maggie / by Lilian Van Ness
Seasmiles / by Anne Goodwin Winslow.
1951: The hunters / by Harris Downey
The burning / by Eudora Welty
The house of flowers / by Truman Capote
Sense of direction / by Leonard Casper
The pot of gold / by John Cheever
I came from yonder mountain / by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
Black water blues / by Monty Culver
A name for the city / by William Faulkner
In the time of demonstrations / by James B. Hall
Peggety's parcel of shortcomings / by John Hersey
A sense of destination / by Faye Riter Kensinger
Old Century's river / by Oliver La Farge
The Jersey heifer / by Peggy Harding Love
The invaders / by Robie Macauley
The sojourner / by Carson McCullers
Monte Saint Angelo / by Arthur Miller
The butcherbirds / by Esther Patt
Homecoming / by Elizabeth Gregg Patterson
The shadow of an arm / by Thomas Hal Phillips
Cyclists' raid / by Frank Rooney
Slow journey / by Sylvia Shirley
Who too was a soldier / by John Campbell Smith
A country love story / by Jean Stafford
It's a nice day
Sunday / by R.E. Thompson.
1955: In the zoo / Jean Stafford
A circle in the fire / Flannery O'Connor
The tiger / Frederick Buechner
The unpopular passenger / Robert Bingham
A Christmas carillon / Hortense Calisher
The inland years / R.V. Cassill
The five-forty-eight / John Cheever
Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing / George P. Elliott
The operator / Elizabeth Enright
Man of distinction / Mary Dewees Fowler
Twilight in southern California / Daniel Fuchs
Joshua / Shirley Ann Grau
The green fly / John Graves
The presence of grace / J.F. Powers
The shirts off their backs / William Henry Shultz
The wanton troopers / Max Steele
The city of the living / Wallace Stegner
The indomitable blue / Ira Wolfert.
1956: Introduction
The country husband / John Cheever
Pepicelli / James Buechler
The prize / R.V. Cassill
The Gonzaga manuscripts / Saul Bellow
The night club in the woods / Hortense Calisher
The black beach / Archie Carr
The head of a sad angel / Alfred Chester
In a foreign city / Robert M. Coates
Race at morning / William Faulkner
A celebration for Joe / Herbert Gold
The Chevigny man / Robie Macauley
Tradition / Howard Nemerov
Beatrice Trueblood's story / Jean Stafford
The affair at 7, Rue de M
- / John Steinbeck
Able Baker / John Whitehill
The best of everything / Richard Yates.
1958: In sickness as in health / Martha Gellhorn
What a thing, to keep a wolf in a cage! / Hortense Calisher
The deeps of the sea / George Steiner
My blithe, sad bird / Jean Stafford
The stone boy / Gina Berriault
The eclipse / Elizabeth Enright
The making of a clerk / Leo Litwak
A summer shower / Walter Clemons
The long night / Lowell D. Blanton
A slow boat to China / Nancy Hale
A drink of water / T.K. Brown III
A cow on the roof / Wilma Shore
First voice / Robin White
The ambassador / Edward Newhouse
The passion for Silver's arm / Herbert Wilner
My apples / Robert Granat
Travelin Man / Peter Matthiessen.
1959: Introduction
Venus, Cupid, Folly and time / Peter Taylor
Among the dangs / George P. Elliott
Something to explain / Thomas C. Turner
A reasonable facsimile / Jean Stafford
The present / Emilie Bix Buchwald
Tib's eve / Ellen Currie
Goose pond / Thomas Williams
Second circle / MacDonald Harris
Witch chicken / Helga Sandburg
Flight of the circle heart / William Eastlake
Come out the wilderness / James Baldwin
A view of the woods / Flannery O'Connor
The last voyage / Tom Filer
The Bible salesman / Alma Stone
The trouble of Marcie Flint / John Cheever.
1961: Introduction / by Richard Poirier
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen
The nickel misery of George Washington Carver Brown / Ivan Gold
One Sunday in late July / Reynolds Price
The magician / Jackson Burgess
Lovely appearance of death / Ellen Currie
How the mountains are / Jesse Hill Ford
The quick and the dead / Ervin Krause
Thoreau in California / Jack Ludwig
I don't need you any more / Arthur Miller
A nous la liberte / David Shaber
Heads of houses / Peter Taylor
Wife-wooing / John Updike.
1962: Holiday / Katherine Anne Porter
Under the rose / Thomas Pynchon
Familiar use in Leningrad / Tom Cole
The star blanket / Shirley W. Schoonover
Professorio collegio / David Shaber
The people with the charm / Mary Deasy
Eight o'clock one morning / Shirley ann grau
The english gardens / David Jackson
The aztec dog / John Graves
Sled / Thomas E. Adams
Deja vu / Miriam McKenzie
Bridgeport bus / Maureen Howard
The warrior princess Ozimba / Reynolds Price
The rememberer / Thomas Whitbread
The doctor's wife / John Updike.
Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
Encounter in Haiti / Herbert Gold
Miracle Play / George P. Elliot
My sister's marriage / Cynthia Marshall Rich
Last tag / Willard Marsh
The warlock / Jean Stafford
The blue serge suit / John Langdon
By the people / William Faulkner
The credit line / Richard Young Thurman
Man's courage / Wyatt Blassingame
The journal of an old gent / John Cheever
Free the canaries from their cages! / Arthur Granit
Then we were three / Irwin Shaw
Things changed / Betty Sunwall
A new life / Nolan Miller
When old age when this generation waste / R.V. Cassill
I love you Batty sisters / Eugene Walter
BIg Buick to the pyramids / M.M. Lieberman
The old wives tale / Mary Lee Settle
Yellowstone Park / Mary McCarthy.
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