Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been
updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing
generation with a contemporary consciousness, and this brilliant blending of masters of the past and the brightest
talents of the present achieves the goal of making a great collection even greater. Reissue.
Table of Contents
Preface
INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
A Telephone Call
Dorothy Parker
I Stand Here Ironing Tillie Olsen
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
Straight Pool John O'Hara
The Lady's Maid
Katherine Mansfield
...& Answers
Joyce Carol Oates
LETTER NARRATION
Inter-Office Rosellen Brown
A Bundle of Letters Henry James
A Wilderness Station
Alice Munro
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General Ambrose Bierce
DIARY NARRATION
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book
V. S. Naipaul
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Lorrie Moore
SUBJECTIVE NARRATION
The Somebody
Danny Santiago
My Side of the Matter
Truman Capote
My Sister's Marriage
Cynthia Marshall Rich
Why, You Reckon?
Langston Hughes
A & P John Updike
Distance Grace Paley
DETACHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods
Toni Cade Bambara
The Circuit Francisco Jimenez
First Confession Frank O'Connor
A Coupla Scalped Indians Ralph Ellison
Birthday
David Wong Louie
The Passing
Durango Mendoza
MEMOIR, OR OBSERVER NARRATION
The Voice from the Wall Amy Tan
Country Jayne Anne Phillips
Scales
Louise Erdrich
The Bridle
Raymond Carver
The Eggs of the World
Toshio Mori
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---SINGLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
The Five-Forty-Eight
John Cheever
The Stone Boy Gina Berriault
Doby's Gone Ann Petry
Act of Faith
Irwin Shaw
Come Out the Wilderness James Baldwin
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---DUAL CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
Sinking House
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Only Rose Sarah Orne Jewett
Strong Horse Tea Alice Walker
Uglypuss
Margaret Atwood
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---MULTIPLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
Fever Flower Shirley Ann Grau
The Suicides of Private Greaves
James Moffett
Inez
Merle Hodge
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---NO CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
A New Window Display
Nicholosa Mohr
The Lottery Shirley Jackson
Powerhouse Eudora Welty
Afterword
References
Related Works
James Moffett
