Title: The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Description: Collection contains:
Stories: Civil peace / Chinua Achebe --
Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie --
Act of vengeance / Isabel Allende --
Hands / Sherwood Anderson --
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin --
Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
Black man and white woman in dark green boat / Russell Banks --
Snow / Ann Beattie --
From Fun Home: Old father, old artificer / Alison Bechdel --
The rememberer / Aimee Bender --
[Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce --
Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges --
August 2026: There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury --
Cathedral; A small, good thing ; What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver --
Paul's case / Willa Carter --
Water names / Lan Samantha Chang --
Swimmer / John Cheever --
Darling / Anton Chekhov --
[Désiré́e's baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W); [Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin --
Barbie-Q / Sandra Cisneros --
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad --
Open boat / Stephen Crane --
How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie / Junot Diaz --
Battle royal / Ralph Ellison --
The red convertible / Louise Erdrich --
[Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W); [That evening sun](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080863W) / William Faulkner --
Very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Homage / Nadine Gordimer --
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway --
Church cancels cow / Amy Hempel --
Things you should know / A. M. Homes --
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston --
Lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Who's Irish? / Gish Jen --
White heron / Sarah Orne Jewett --
Bad neighbors / Edward P. Jones --
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W); [Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15073437W) / James Joyce --
Hunger Artist; Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka --
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
[Bartleby, the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville --
Nawabdin electrician / Daniyal Mueenuddin --
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee --
Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro --
Where are you going, where you have been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
Everything that rises must converge; Good country people; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick --
Brownies / ZZ Packer --
Conversation with my father / Grace Paley --
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W); [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)/ Edgar Allan Poe --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
Job history / Annie Proulx --
From Palestine: Refugeeland / Joe Sacco --
From Persepolis : The veil / Marjane Satrapi --
Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Homework / Helen Simpson --
Prisoner on the hell planet: a case history / Art Spiegelman --
Two kinds / Amy Tan --
Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy --
A&P / John Updike --
The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes --
Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
Good people / David Foster Wallace --
Worn path / Eudora Welty --
Say yes / Tobias Wolf --
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright --
Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe --
Superman and me / Sherman Alexie --
Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson --
Reading blind / Margaret Atwood --
Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin --
Writing "Poes" / Russell Banks --
Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges --
Translating Kafka / Ann Charters --
Why I write short stories / John Cheever --
Technique in writing the short story / Anton Chekhov --
How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin --
Sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane --
A huger artist / R. Crumb; David Zane Mairowitz --
Influence of folklore on ''Battle royal'' / Ralph Ellison --
Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner --
Feminist reading of Gilman's ''Yellow wallpaper'' / Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar --
Why I wrote ''Yellow wallpaper''; Undergoing the cure for nervous prostration / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston --
Morning of June 28,1948 and ''Lottery'' / Shirley Jackson --
On ''Girl'' / Jamaica Kincaid --
Finding your voice / Anne Lamott --
On Tim O'Brien's ''Things they carried'' / Bobbie Ann Mason --
Writer's goal / Guy de Maupassant --
Blackness in Hawthorne's ''Young Goodman Brown'' / Herman Melville --
How I write short stories / Alice Munro --
Stories that define me: Making of a writer; Smooth talk: Short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates --
Alpha company / Tim O'Brien --
Conversation with Ann Charters / Grace Paley --
Importance of the single effect in a prose tale / Edgar Allan Poe --
Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko --
In the canon, for all the wrong reasons / Amy Tan --
Chekhov's intent in ''Darling'' / Leo Tolstoy --
Zora Neale Hurston: Cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker --
Some remarks on Kafka's funnieness from which probably not enough has been removed / David Foster Wallace --
Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead? / Eudora Welty --
Reading fiction / Richard Wright --
Casebooks: Casebook one: Raymond Carver: One writing; Creative writing 101; The bath / Raymond Carver --
Origin of ''Cathedral'' / Tom Jenks --
Reading of ''What we talk about when we talk about love'' / Arthur M. Saltzman --
Looking for Raymond Carver / A.O. Scott --
Casebook two: Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies": My two lives / Jhumpa Lahiri --
Jhumpa Lahiri / Sean Flynn --
Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" / Simon Lewis --
Casebook three: Flannery O'Connor: From ''Letters 1954-55''; Writing short stories; Reasonable use of the unreasonable / Flannery O'Connor --
Rhetorical reading of O'Connor's ''Everything that rises must converge'' / Wayne C. Booth --
On ''Good country people'' / Dorothy Tuck McFarland --
Casebook four: Graphic storytelling: What the little old ladies feel / Alison Bechdel --
From "Alternative comics: toward the habit of questioning" / Charles Hatfield --
Are comics serious literature / Michael Kupperman --
From understanding comics: Invisible art / Scott McCloud --
Reading "The Veil" by Marjane Satrapi / Sydney Plum --
Some reflections on Palestine / Joe Sacco / Homage to Joe Sacco / Edward W. Said. Appendices: Reading short stories (Includes Grace Paley, ''Samuel'') --
Elements of fiction --
Brief history of the short story --
Writing about short stories --
Literary theory and critical perspectives --
Glossary of literary terms --
Chronological listing of authors' stories --
Chronological listing of authors and stories --
Index of authors and titles
Subjects: Short story, Short stories, American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, tradition, change, death, allegory, nonlinear narrative, gentleman's agreements, recluses, Mentally ill women, African Americans, husband and wife, race relations, Satanism, Puritans, catechism, Devil, Boys, 20th century English fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), christian fiction, Christmas, Christmas fiction, Christmas stories, Criticism and interpretation, Daily Express, Domestic fiction, English fiction, family life, Family reunions, Stories (texts), The Lass of Aughrim, Three Graces, West Britons, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, history and criticism, Revenge, History, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Short stories, english, history and criticism, Nouvelles, Nouvelle
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Louisiana, L’Abri, Mallard residence, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, New England, Salem Village, Massachusetts, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, Ireland, Galway, New York, Wall Street
People: Peyton Farquhar, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Colonel Sartoris, Quentin Compson, Nancy, Caddy, Jason, Dilsey, Jesus, Mrs. Compson, Mr. Stovall, Jailer, Mr. Lovelady, Goodman Brown, Faith Brown, Goody Cloyse, Devil, Mangan's sister, Gabriel Conroy, Kate Morkan, Julia Morkan, Mary Jane Morkan, Lily, Gretta Conroy, Molly Ivors, Mr Browne, Freddy Malins, Mrs Malins, Bartell D'Arcy, Patrick Morkan, Michael Furey, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Montresor, Fortunato, Luchresi, Lady Fortunato
Time periods: Carnival, 19th century, Antebellum era, 1600s, 1861-65