Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. SHERMAN ALEXIE: Introduced by Junot Diaz. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona. The Toughest Indian in the World. MARGARET ATWOOD: Introduced by Percival Everett. Happy Endings. Death by Landscape. True Trash. JAMES BALDWIN: Introduced by Ben Niehart. Sonny''s Blues. Going To Meet the Man. Exodus. TONI CADE BAMBARA: Introduced by David Haynes. My Man Bovanne. The Lesson. The Organizer''s Wife. ANDREA BARRETT: Introduced by Frederick Reiken The Behavior of the Hawkwinds. Birds with No Feet. Servents of the Map. DONALD BARTHELME: Introduced by Jonathan Lethem. A City of Churches. The School. Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning. RICHARD BAUSCH: Introduction by Robert Bausch. The Man who Knew Belle Starr. What Feels Like the World. Tandolfo the Great. CHARLES BAXTER: Introduced by Elwood Reid. Gryphon. Westland. Shelter. ANN BEATTIE: Introduced by Heidi Julavitz.Janus. The Burning House. Park City. ROBERT OLEN BUTLER: Introduced by Ann Patchett. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot. This is Earl Sandt. RAYMOND CARVER: Introduced by Dan Chaon. Are These Actual Miles? What We Talk About Love. Cathedral. JOHN CHEEVER: Introduced by Richard Russo. Goodbye, My Brother. The Country Husband. The Swimmer. JUNOT DIAZ: Introduced by ZZ Packer. Ysrael. Fiesta, 1980. The Sun, the Moon, the Stars. CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI: Introduced by Elizabeth Stuckey-French. Mrs Dutta Writes a Letter. The Lives of Strangers. The Blooming Season for Cacti. LOUISE ERDRICH: Introduced by Brady Udall. The Red Convertible. Saint Marie. Satan: Highjacker of a Planet. RICHARD FORD: Introduced by Sheila Kohler. Rock Springs. Communist. Under the Radar. BARRY HANNAH: Introduced by Tom Franklin. Testimony of Pilot. Water Liars. Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa. GISH JEN: Introduced by Millicent Dillon. The Water Faucet Vision. Birthmates. Who''s Irish. JAMAICA KINCAID: Introduced by Victor Lavalle. Girl. Figures in the Distance. Xuela. BERNARD MALAMUD: Introduced by Debra Spark. The Magic Barrel. The Last Mohican. The Jewbird. RICK MOODY: Introduced by Ken Foster. The Grid. The Apocalyptic Commentary of Bob Paisner. Demonology. LORRIE MOORE: Introduced by Elissa Schappell. How To Become a Writer. You''re Ugly, Too. People Like That Are the Only People Here. ALICE MUNRO: Introduced by Lorrie Moore. Walker Brothers Cowboy. Friend of My Youth. Save the Reaper. ANTONYA NELSON: Introduced by Charles Baxter. The Control Group. Naked Ladies. Female Trouble. JOYCE CAROL OATES: Introduced by Jennifer Egan. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Life After High School. Ghost Girls. TIM O''BRIEN: Introduction by Juliana Baggott. The Things The Carried. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. Half Gone. FLANNERY O''CONNOR: Introduced by Antonya Nelson. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Everything That Rises. Good Country People. GRACE PALEY: Introduced by Amy Bloom. An Interest in Life. Wants. A Conversation w/My Father. GEORGE SAUDERS: Introduction by Aimee Bender.CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Sea Oak. Winky. JOHN UPDIKE: Introduced by Brock Clarke. A&P. Pigeon Feathers. A Sandstone Farmhouse. EUDORA WELTY: Introduced by Lee Smith. A Worn Path. Why I Live at the P.O. No Place for You, My Love. TOBIAS WOLFF: Introduced by Adam Johnson. Hunters in the Snow. The Rich Brother. Bullet in the Brain. RICHARD YATES: Introduced by Stewart O''Nan. The Best of Everything. No Pain Whatsoever. Oh, Joseph, I''m So Tired. APPENDICES.
