The GWW Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 fiction title

A collection of accessible and excellent short fiction hand-picked by the country's most popular writing school.

Each of the stories in Fiction Gallery will hold you spellbound from first to last page, while also exemplifying the very best in literary fiction. Grouped in sections that follow the cycle of life, these stories explore the varied aspects of human existence and, cumulatively, form the satisfying dramatic arc of a novel.

The authors range from the acknowledged masters of short fiction-Anton Chekhov, Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, Jhumpa Lahiri-to the very best of today's emerging writers. As a bonus, the anthology includes interviews with T.C. Boyle and Jhumpa Lahiri, in which they illuminate the process of creating a short story.

Aspiring writers who enjoyed Gotham Writers' Workshop previous book, Writing Fiction, will also find this anthology an invaluable source of inspiration and instruction.

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The GWW Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 fiction title

A collection of accessible and excellent short fiction hand-picked by the country's most popular writing school.

Each of the stories in Fiction Gallery will hold you spellbound from first to last page, while also exemplifying the very best in literary fiction. Grouped in sections that follow the cycle of life, these stories explore the varied aspects of human existence and, cumulatively, form the satisfying dramatic arc of a novel.

The authors range from the acknowledged masters of short fiction-Anton Chekhov, Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, Jhumpa Lahiri-to the very best of today's emerging writers. As a bonus, the anthology includes interviews with T.C. Boyle and Jhumpa Lahiri, in which they illuminate the process of creating a short story.

Aspiring writers who enjoyed Gotham Writers' Workshop previous book, Writing Fiction, will also find this anthology an invaluable source of inspiration and instruction.

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The GWW Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

The GWW Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

by Alex Steele
The GWW Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

The GWW Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

by Alex Steele

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Overview

A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 fiction title

A collection of accessible and excellent short fiction hand-picked by the country's most popular writing school.

Each of the stories in Fiction Gallery will hold you spellbound from first to last page, while also exemplifying the very best in literary fiction. Grouped in sections that follow the cycle of life, these stories explore the varied aspects of human existence and, cumulatively, form the satisfying dramatic arc of a novel.

The authors range from the acknowledged masters of short fiction-Anton Chekhov, Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, T.C. Boyle, Jhumpa Lahiri-to the very best of today's emerging writers. As a bonus, the anthology includes interviews with T.C. Boyle and Jhumpa Lahiri, in which they illuminate the process of creating a short story.

Aspiring writers who enjoyed Gotham Writers' Workshop previous book, Writing Fiction, will also find this anthology an invaluable source of inspiration and instruction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781582344621
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 08/21/2004
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.55(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gotham Writers' Workshop is America's leading private creative writing school, offering classes in New York City and on the web at www.WritingClasses.com. The school's interactive online classes, selected "Best of the Web" by Forbes, have attracted thousands of aspiring writers from across the United States and more than sixty countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Alexander Steele

Starting Out

Anton Chekhov, A Trifle from Life

Frank O'Connor, First Confession

ZZ Packer, Brownies

Peter Markus, What the River Told Us to Do

Myla Goldberg, Going for the Orange Julius

Longings

Claire Davis, Labors of the Heart

Lou Matthews, Crazy Life

Pam Houston, Sometimes You Talk About Idaho

T. C. Boyle, After the Plague

Those We Know

Dorothy Parker, Here We Are

Raymond Carver, Whoever Was Using This Bed

Anthony Doerr, For a Long Time This Was Griselda's Story

Hannah Tinti, Home Sweet Home

The Job

Daniel Orozco, Orientation

John O'Farrell, Walking into the Wind

Edwidge Danticat, Night Women

Ethan Canin, The Palace Thief

Strangeness

Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand

Charles Baxter, The Next Building I Plan to Bomb

Jess Row, The Secrets of Bats

0Jhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final Continent

Sunset

John Cheever, The Sunset

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

Thom Jones, I Want to Live!

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Interviews

Interview with T. C. Boyle

Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri

Interview with Hannah Tinti

Credits

Acknowledgments

What People are Saying About This

Tamara Straus

If you find yourself on a long journey, Fiction Gallery is the perfect companion. And even if you're not traveling anywhere, these stories will transport you.
Editor in Chief, Zoetrope: All-Story

Thomas C. Foster

Fiction Gallery is a wonderful selection for the general reader and writing student alike. The editors have chosen stories with great range of period, style, form, and subject, stories that brilliantly convey the possibilities of the genre.
author of How To Read Literature Like a Professor

Elfrieda Abbe

Reading Fiction Gallery is like taking a seminar from the masters of short story writing. Inspiring and instructive for all writers!
Editor, The Writer

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