Fiction Gallery
Subtitle: Exceptional Short Stories Selected By New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
Publisher: Bloomsbury, USA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781582344621
Description: "Aspiring writers who enjoyed Gotham Writers' Workshop's Writing Fiction will find this anthology an invaluable source of inspiration and insight. This gallery of stories presents diverse examples of all the elements of fiction craft and demonstrates how writers seamlessly sew these elements into unforgettable tales... As a bonus, the anthology includes original interviews with T. C. Boye, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Hannah Tinti, in which they illuminate the process of creating a short story."--P. 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Starting Out: Stories About Youth; title: “A Trifle from Life”   by Anton Chekhov; title: “First Confession”   by Frank O’Connor; title: “Brownies”   by ZZ Packer; title: “What the River Told Us to Do”   by Peter Markus; title: “Going For the Orange Julius”   by Myla Goldberg; title: Longings: Stories About Romance; title: “Labors of the Heart”   by Claire Davis; title: “Crazy Life”   by Lou Mathews; title: “Sometimes You Talk About Idaho”   by Pam Houston; title: “After the Plague”   by T.C. Boyle; title: Those We Know: Stories About Family; title: “Here We Are”   by Dorothy Parker; title: “Whoever Was Using this Bed”   by Raymond Carver; title: “For a Long Time This Was Griselda’s Story”   by Anthony Doerr; title: “Home Sweet Home”   by Hannah Tinti; title: The Job: Stories About Work; title: “Orientation”   by Daniel Orozco; title: “Walking Into the Wind”   by John O’Farrell; title: “Night Women”   by Edwidge Danticat; title: “The Palace Thief”   by Ethan Canin; title: Strangeness: Stories About Strange Happenings; title: “The Book of Sand”   by Jorge Luis Borges; title: “The Next Building I Plan to Bomb”   by Charles Baxter; title: “The Secrets of Bats”   by Jess Row; title: “The Third and Final Continent”   by Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Sunset: Stories About Life's End; title: “The Swimmer”   by John Cheever; title: “The Story of an Hour”   by Kate Chopin; title: “I Want to Live!”   by Thom Jones; title: “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”   by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Author Interviews; title: Interview with T.C. Boyle; title: Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri; title: Interview with Hannah Tinti; title: Credits; title: Acknowledgements