Foreword
Introduction, John Updike
Zelig, Benjamin Rosenblatt, p. 1
Little Selves, Mary Lerner, p. 7
A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell, p. 18
The Other Woman, Sherwood Anderson, p. 38
The Golden Honeymoon, Ring Lardner, p. 45
Blood-Burning Moon, Jean Toomer, p. 60
The Killers, Ernest Hemingway, p. 68
Double Birthday, Willa Cather, p. 77
Wild Plums, Grace Stone Coates, p. 100
Theft, Katherine Anne Porter, p. 105
That Evening Sun Go Down, William Faulkner, p. 111
Here We Are, Dorothy Parker, p. 127
Crazy Sunday, F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 136
My Dead Brother Comes to America, Alexander Godin, p. 153
Resurrection of a Life, William Saroyan, p. 159
Christmas Gift, Robert Penn Warren, p. 169
Bright and Morning Star, Richard Wright, p. 179
The Hitch-Hikers, Eudora Welty, p. 211
The Peach Stone, Paul Horgan, p. 224
"That in Aleppo Once ...", Vladimir Nabokov, p. 241
The Interior Castle, Jean Stafford, p. 250
Miami - New York, Martha Gellhorn, p. 264
The Second Tree from the Corner, E. B. White, p. 281
The Farmer's Children, Elizabeth Bishop, p. 286
Death of a Favorite, J. F. Powers, p. 295
The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin, Tennessee Williams, p. 312
The Country Husband, John Cheever, p. 325
Greenleaf, Flannery O'Connor, p. 348
The Ledge, Lawrence Sargent Hall, p. 369
Defender of the Faith, Philip Roth, p. 384
Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers, Stanley Elkin, p. 411
The German Refugee, Bernard Malamud, p. 438
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates, p. 450
The Rotifer, Mary Ladd Gavell, p. 466
Gold Coast, James Alan McPherson, p. 477
The Key, Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 493
A City of Churches, Donald Barthelme, p. 503
How to Win, Rosellen Brown, p. 507
Roses, Rhododendron, Alice Adams, p. 520
Verona: A Young Woman Speaks, Harold Brodkey, p. 533
A Silver Dish, Saul Bellow, p. 539
Gesturing, John Updike, p. 565
The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick, p. 576
Where I'm Calling From, Raymond Carver, p. 581
Janus, Ann Beattie, p. 595
The Way We Live Now, Susan Sontag, p. 600
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, p. 616
Meneseteung, Alice Munro, p. 633
You're Ugly, Too, Lorrie Moore, p. 652
I Want to Live!, Thom Jones, p. 671
In the Gloaming, Alice Elliott Dark, p. 688
Proper Library, Carolyn Ferrell, p. 705
Birthmates, Gish Jen, p. 720
Soon, Pam Durban, p. 735
The Half-Skinned Steer, Annie Proulx, p. 754
Biographical Notes, p. 769
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