| Contents: |
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. |
Cite/Export