The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short

Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970.

Sherman Alexie • Margaret Atwood

Lex Williford has taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University and the University of Alabama. His collection of stories, Macauley's Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Foreword

9

(4)

Lex Williford

Michael Martone

Introduction

13

(8)

Rosellen Brown

This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona

21

(10)

Alexie, Sherman

Death by Landscape

31

(15)

Atwood, Margaret

Raymond's Run

46

(7)

Bambara, Toni Cade

Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story

53

(20)

Banks, Russell

Click

73

(20)

Barth, John

The School

93

(3)

Barthelme, Donald

Wild Horses

96

(16)

Bass, Rick

The Man Who Knew Belle Starr

112

(19)

Bausch, Richard

Gryphon

131

(14)

Baxter, Charles

Customs of the Country

145

(14)

Bell, Madison Smart

Silver Water

159

(8)

Bloom, Amy

Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta

167

(15)

Braverman, Kate

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

182

(11)

Butler, Robert Olen

The Year of Getting to Know Us

193

(16)

Canin, Ethan

Errand

209

(10)

Carver, Raymond

Woman Hollering Creek

219

(10)

Cisneros, Sandra

White Angel

229

(15)

Cunningham, Michael

Fiesta 1980

244

(12)

Diaz, Junot

Pet Milk

256

(4)

Dybek, Stuart

The Prophet from Jupiter

260

(16)

Earley, Tony

Saint Marie

276

(12)

Erdrich, Louise

Rock Springs

288

(18)

Ford, Richard

The Mail Lady

306

(19)

Gates, David

Same Place, Same Things

325

(13)

Gautreaux, Tim

Nebraska

338

(5)

Hansen Ron

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried

343

(8)

Hempel, Amy

Emergency

351

(10)

Johnson, Denis

Marie

361

(12)

Jones, Edward P.

Cold Snap

373

(11)

Jones, Thom

Doe Season

384

(14)

Kaplan, David Michael

Patriotic

398

(11)

Kauffman, Janet

Girl

409

(2)

Kincaid, Jamaica

Territory

411

(17)

Leavitt, David

The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas

428

(11)

McKnight, Reginald

You're Ugly, Too

439

(17)

Moore, Lorrie

The Management of Grief

456

(14)

Mukherjee, Bharati

Meneseteung

470

(18)

Munro, Alice

Ghost Girls

488

(13)

Oates, Joyce Carol

The Things They Carried

501

(15)

O'Brien, Tim

The Shawl

516

(5)

Ozick, Cynthia

Brokeback Mountain

521

(21)

Prolux, Annie

Strays

542

(5)

Richard, Mark

Intensive Care

547

(22)

Smith, Lee

The Way We Live Now

569

(15)

Sontag, Susan

Two Kinds

584

(11)

Tan, Amy

First, Body

595

(17)

Thon, Melanie Rae

Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog

612

(12)

Vaughn, Stephanie

Nineteen Fifty-five

624

(13)

Walker, Alice

Fever

637

(22)

Wideman, John Edgar

Taking Care

659

Williams, Joy

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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction; Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970

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