The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction : fifty North American stories since 1970
/ Lex Williford and Michael Martone, editors
- 671 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-671).
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara Sarah Cole : a type of love story / Russell Banks Click / John Barth The school / Donald Barthelme Wild horses / Rick Bass The man who knew Belle Starr / Richard Bausch Gryphon / Charles Baxter Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell Silver water / Amy Bloom Tall tales from the Mekong Delta / Kate Braverman A good scent from a strange mountain / Robert Olen Butler The year of getting to know us / Ethan Canin Errand / Raymond Carver Woman Hollering Creek / Sandra Cisneros White angel / Michael Cunningham Fiesta 1980 / Junot Diaz Pet milk / Stuart Dybek The prophet from Jupiter / Tony Earley Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich Rock Springs / Richard Ford The mail lady / David Gates Same place, same things / Tim Gautreaux Nebraska / Ron Hansen In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel Emergency / Denis Johnson Marie / Edward P. Jones Cold snap / Thom Jones Doe season / David Michael Kaplan Patriotic / Janet Kauffman Girl / Jamaica Kincaid Territory / David Leavitt The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Meneseteung / Alice Munro Ghost girls / Joyce Carol Oates The things they carried / Tim O'Brien The shawl / Cynthia Ozick Brokeback Mountain / Annie Proulx Strays / Mark Richard Intensive care / Lee Smith The way we live now / Susan Sontag Two kinds / Amy Tan First, body / Melanie Rae Thon Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog / Stephanie Vaughn Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker Fever / John Edgar Wideman Taking care / Joy Williams