Contents
- I. MINIATURES
- The Student, Anton Chekhov
- The Sirens, Franz Kafka
- The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams
- The Wind Blows, Katherine Mansfield
- Father’s Last Escape, Bruno Schulz
- I Used to Live Here Once, Jean Rhys
- The House of the Crime, Alberto Moravia
- The Supper, Tadeusz Borowski
- Cities & The Dead, Italo Calvino
- Continuous Cities, Italo Calvino
- Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?, Nadine Gordimer
- The Turtle Overnight, James Wright
- Regret for a Spider Web, James Wright
- Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor, Phyllis Koestenbaum
- Distance from Loved Ones, James Tate
- Cockroaches in Autumn, Lydia Davis
- Coffee, Daniel Halpern
- Advice to Young Writers, Ron Padgett
- The Last Days of a Famous Mime, Peter Carey
- No One’s a Mystery, Elizabeth Tallent
- Death of the Right Fielder, Stuart Dybek
- 14 May 1905 and 15 May 1905 (from Einstein’s Dream), Alan Lightman
- II. DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES
- Lethal, Joyce Carol Oates
- Twirler, Jane Martin
- Testimonies, August Wilson
- Still Life, Emily Mann
- III. EARLY STORIES
- The Judgment, Franz Kafka
- Indian Camp, Ernest Hemingway
- The Burning Baby, Dylan Thomas
- Wunderkind, Carson McCullers
- Goodbye, My Brother, John Cheever
- Friends from Philadelphia, John Updike
- Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love, Lorrie Moore
- The Naked Lady, Madison Smartt Bell
- The Sutton Pie Safe, Pinckney Benedict
- A Portrait of My Father, Jonathan Ames
- IV. THE ART AND THE CRAFT OF REVISION
- The Sisters from The Irish Homestead (1904), James Joyces
- The Sisters from Dubliners (1914), James Joyces
- V. RE-VISIONS
- Genesis 19, The Hebrew Bible
- The Cave, Alicia Ostriker
- Hercules, Deianira, Nessus, (from Metamorphoses), Ovid
- Hercules, Deianira, Nessus, C. K. Williams
- The Story of Daedelus and Icarus, (from Metamorphoses), Ovid
- Fever, Harlan Ellison
- Little Red-Cap, Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- The Werewolf, Angela Carter
- Little Snow White, Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Anne Sexton
- VI. NARRATIVE IN OTHER MODES
- 1. Memoir, Diary, Personal Document
- from The American Notebooks (1841—1852), Nathaniel Hawthorne
- from the Journal (May 22, 1853), Henry David Thoreau
- from the Diary (March 1930), Virginia Woolf
- Moments of Being (from A Sketch of the Past), Virginia Woolf
- American Hunger (from Black Boy), Richard Wright
- How It Feels to Be Colored Me, Zora Neale Hurston
- Borges and I, Jorge Luis Borges
- Those Who Must Jump, M. F. K Fisher
- Passing Through Tangiers (from Desolation Angels), Jack Kerouac
- No Name Woman (from The Woman Warrior), Maxine Hong Kingston
- Updike and I, John Updike
- The Dream (from Shot in the Heart), Mikal Gilmore
- 2. Poems That Tell Stories
- Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops (from The Odyssey), Homer
- The Story of Actaeon (from Metamorphoses), Ovid
- Home Burial, Robert Frost
- Cherrylog Road, James Dickey
- The Car, Raymond Carver
- 400-Meter Freestyle, Maxine Kumin
- Emergencies, Annie Dillard
- Cattle-Killing Winter, Avalanche, Jana Harris
- Violence, Tom Wayman
- Sure Shot, Erika Funkhouser
- Testimony, Jon Davis
- After the Fact: To Ted Bundy, Robert Phillips
- Target Practice, The Levee, The Trees That Change Our Lives, The Wrestler’s Heart, Gary Soto
- When Jesus Walked, Carlos Cumpi·n
- Aisle of Dogs, Chase Twitchell
- The Cleaving, Li-Young Lee
- The Flood, Joy Harjo
- VII. GENRE: HORROR
- The Rats in the Walls, H. P. Lovecraft
- The Man in the Black Suit, Stephen King
- VIII. CLASSICS AND CONTEMPORARIES
- Tickets, Please, D. H. Lawrence
- Sun and Moon, Katherine Mansfield
- That Evening Sun, William Faulkner
- A Temple of the Holy Ghost, Flannery O’Connor
- Anxiety, Grace Paley
- The Balloon, Donald Barthelme
- The Writer in the Family, E. L. Doctorow
- Why Don't You Dance?, Raymond Carver
- The Man from Mars, Margaret Atwood
- Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee
- Sister, Tobias Wolff
- Communist, Richard Ford
- Any Sport, William Heyen
- Mourning, Robert Taylor, Jr.
- My Man Bovanne, Toni Cade Bambara
- Cutter, C. E. Poverman
- I Dated Jane Austen, T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Dating Your Mom, Ian Frazier
- Aren’t You Happy for Me?, Richard Bausch
- My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid
- Fruit of the Month, Abby Frucht
- Damballah, John Edgar Wideman
- X and O, Jewel Morgan
- The Moths, Helena Mari· Viramontes
- Young Lions, Edward P. Jones
- Gravity, David Leavitt
- Just Don’t Touch Anything, (from Rule of the Bone), Russell Banks
- In the American Society, Gish Jen
- The Pugilist at Rest, Thom Jones
- Family, Joyce Carol Oates
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