Author Description

Selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors. Includes: This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie Death by landscape by Margaret Atwood Raymond's run by Toni Cade Bambara Sarah Cole: a type of love story by Russell Banks Click by John Barth The school by Donald Barthelme Wild horses by Rick Bass The man who knew Belle Starr by Richard Bausch Gryphon by Charles Baxter Customs of the country by Madison Smartt Bell Silver water by Amy Bloom Tall tales from the Mekong Delta by Kate Braverman A good scent from a strange mountain by Robert Olen Butler The year of getting to know us by Ethan Canin Errand by Raymond Carver Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros White angel by Michael Cunningham Fiesta 1980 by Junot Diaz Pet milk by Stuart Dybek The prophet from Jupiter by Tony Earley Saint Marie by Louise Erdrich Rock Springs by Richard Ford The mail lady by David Gates Same place, same things by Tim Gautreaux Nebraska by Ron Hansen In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried by Amy Hempel Emergency by Denis Johnson Marie by Edward P. Jones Cold snap by Thom Jones Doe season by David Michael Kaplan Patriotic by Janet Kauffman Girl by Jamaica Kincaid Territory by David Leavitt The kind of light that shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight You're ugly, too by Lorrie Moore The management of grief by Bharati Mukherjee Meneseteung by Alice Munro Ghost girls by Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried by Tim O'Brien The shawl by Cynthia Ozick Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Strays by Mark Richard Intensive care by Lee Smith The way we live now by Susan Sontag T