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