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Reaching inside : 50 acclaimed authors on 100 unforgettable short stories / edited and introduced by Andre Dubus III.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Godine, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xviii, 291 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781567927696
  • 1567927696
Other title:
  • Fifty acclaimed authors on one hundred unforgettable short stories
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Contents:
Introduction / Andre Dubus III -- Ann Patchett. Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; The long-distance runner / Grace Paley -- Mary Gordon. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen ; Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- Madison Smartt Bell. King of the mountain / George Garrett ; Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Meg Wolitzer. Clay / James Joyce ; Yours / Mary Robison -- Dani Shapiro. The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges ; Getting closer / Steven Millhauser -- ZZ Packer. Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek ; A solo song: for Doc / James Alan McPherson -- Ann Beattie. Bliss / Katherine Mansfield ; The prince / Craig Nova -- T. C. Boyle. The brother / Robert Coover ; Sorrows of the flesh / Isabel Huggan -- Anthony Doerr. The garden of Forking Paths / Jorge Luis Borges ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar -- Gish Jen. Barn burning / William Faulkner ; Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Stewart O'Nan. Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Boys / Rick Moody -- Tobias Wolff. Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Jess Walter. The school / Donald Barthelme ; Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Kirstin Valdez Quade. Love / William Maxwell ; Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro -- Mona Simpson. The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov ; Good people / David Foster Wallace -- Richard Russo. The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; Builders / Richard Yates -- Ron Rash. Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you / William Gay ; A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Anna Quindlen. The gift of the Magi / O. Henry ; Wants / Grace Paley -- Jayne Anne Phillips. A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- Edith Pearlman. A love match / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Peter Orner. Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor ; Welcome / John Edgar Wideman -- Joyce Carol Oates. Battle royal / Ralph Ellison ; A & P / John Updike -- Bich Minh Nguyen. Cathedral / Raymond Carver ; In the American society / Gish Jen -- Antonya Nelson. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Rick Moody. The company of wolves / Angela Carter ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Sue Miller. Spanish in the morning / Edward P. Jones ; The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Colum McCann. A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly / Benedict Kiely ; The love object / Edna O'Brien -- Lois Lowry. A small, good thing / Raymond Carver ; The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dennis Lehane. Why don't you dance / Raymond Carver ; The second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Phil Klay. The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; The harvest / Amy Hempel -- Charles Johnson. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Trumpeter / John Gardner -- Pam Houston. Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks ; A note on the type / Ron Carlson -- Ann Hood. Girl / Jamaica Kincaid ; Home / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Paul Harding. The swimmer / John Cheever ; The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever -- Ron Hansen. To build a fire / Jack London ; Master and man / Leo Tolstoy -- Jane Hamilton. Goodbye my brother / John Cheever ; White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Jennifer Haigh. The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant ; Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Lauren Groff. The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol ; The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Robert Boswell. Madagascar / Steven Schwartz ; The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Russell Banks. The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor ; No place for you my love / Eudora Welty -- Julia Glass. A father's story / Andre Dubus ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dagoberto Gilb. La Noche Buena / Tomas Rivera ; Paso del norte / Juan Rulfo -- Stuart Dybek. The grasshopper and bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata ; Birds / John O'Brien -- Emma Donoghue. An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Junot Díaz. Bloodchild / Octavia Butler ; Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Michael Cunningham. Work / Denis Johnson ; The dead / James Joyce -- Lan Samantha Chang. French lesson I: le meurtre / Lydia Davis ; The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ron Carlson. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Charles Baxter. The corn planting / Sherwood Anderson ; A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Richard Bausch. Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway ; The real thing / Henry James -- Writing prompts from the contributors.
Summary: "An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer,' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves. Reaching Inside is the far-ranging end result of that invitation. For practitioners of the personal essay and other forms of creative nonfiction, this anthology is fifty examples of how to write about the "I" as well as the 'eye.' For teachers of creative writing, it is fifty inspiring songs of praise for the kind of writing that aspires to art. For professors of literature, it is fifty models for how to think and write critically. And for readers, Reaching Inside is simply a moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays that reach inside us and, as Tolstoy wrote, 'transfer feeling from one person's heart to another person's heart.' Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers.

"A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, "is a reader who is moved to emulation." New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III took that idea and invited acclaimed authors to write about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it--short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves.

Here is Richard Russo on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike's "A&P," Tobias Wolff on Hawthorne's "Wakefield," Michael Cunningham on James Joyce's "The Dead." Readers will gain new insight into these masterfully written stories but also on the contributors' own lives and work.

The fifty contributors are T.C. Boyle, Russell Banks, Richard Bausch, Robert Boswell, Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, Madison Smartt Bell, Ron Carlson, Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Cunningham, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Emma Donoghue, Stuart Dybek, Dagoberto Gilb, Julia Glass, Mary Gordon, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Jane Hamilton, Ron Hansen, Paul Harding, Ann Hood, Pam Houston, Gish Jen, Charles Johnson, Phil Klay, Dennis Lehane, Lois Lowry, Colum McCann, Sue Miller, Rick Moody, Antonya Nelson, Bich Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O'Nan, Peter Orner, ZZ Packer, Ann Patchett, Edith Pearlman, Jayne Ann Phillips, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Anna Quindlen, Ron Rash, Richard Russo, Dani Shapiro, Mona Simpson, Jess Walter, Tobias Wolff, and Meg Wolitzer.

Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Andre Dubus III -- Ann Patchett. Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; The long-distance runner / Grace Paley -- Mary Gordon. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen ; Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- Madison Smartt Bell. King of the mountain / George Garrett ; Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Meg Wolitzer. Clay / James Joyce ; Yours / Mary Robison -- Dani Shapiro. The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges ; Getting closer / Steven Millhauser -- ZZ Packer. Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek ; A solo song: for Doc / James Alan McPherson -- Ann Beattie. Bliss / Katherine Mansfield ; The prince / Craig Nova -- T. C. Boyle. The brother / Robert Coover ; Sorrows of the flesh / Isabel Huggan -- Anthony Doerr. The garden of Forking Paths / Jorge Luis Borges ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar -- Gish Jen. Barn burning / William Faulkner ; Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Stewart O'Nan. Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Boys / Rick Moody -- Tobias Wolff. Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Jess Walter. The school / Donald Barthelme ; Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Kirstin Valdez Quade. Love / William Maxwell ; Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro -- Mona Simpson. The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov ; Good people / David Foster Wallace -- Richard Russo. The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; Builders / Richard Yates -- Ron Rash. Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you / William Gay ; A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Anna Quindlen. The gift of the Magi / O. Henry ; Wants / Grace Paley -- Jayne Anne Phillips. A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- Edith Pearlman. A love match / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Peter Orner. Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor ; Welcome / John Edgar Wideman -- Joyce Carol Oates. Battle royal / Ralph Ellison ; A & P / John Updike -- Bich Minh Nguyen. Cathedral / Raymond Carver ; In the American society / Gish Jen -- Antonya Nelson. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Rick Moody. The company of wolves / Angela Carter ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Sue Miller. Spanish in the morning / Edward P. Jones ; The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Colum McCann. A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly / Benedict Kiely ; The love object / Edna O'Brien -- Lois Lowry. A small, good thing / Raymond Carver ; The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dennis Lehane. Why don't you dance / Raymond Carver ; The second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Phil Klay. The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; The harvest / Amy Hempel -- Charles Johnson. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Trumpeter / John Gardner -- Pam Houston. Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks ; A note on the type / Ron Carlson -- Ann Hood. Girl / Jamaica Kincaid ; Home / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Paul Harding. The swimmer / John Cheever ; The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever -- Ron Hansen. To build a fire / Jack London ; Master and man / Leo Tolstoy -- Jane Hamilton. Goodbye my brother / John Cheever ; White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Jennifer Haigh. The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant ; Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Lauren Groff. The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol ; The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Robert Boswell. Madagascar / Steven Schwartz ; The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Russell Banks. The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor ; No place for you my love / Eudora Welty -- Julia Glass. A father's story / Andre Dubus ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dagoberto Gilb. La Noche Buena / Tomas Rivera ; Paso del norte / Juan Rulfo -- Stuart Dybek. The grasshopper and bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata ; Birds / John O'Brien -- Emma Donoghue. An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Junot Díaz. Bloodchild / Octavia Butler ; Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Michael Cunningham. Work / Denis Johnson ; The dead / James Joyce -- Lan Samantha Chang. French lesson I: le meurtre / Lydia Davis ; The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ron Carlson. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Charles Baxter. The corn planting / Sherwood Anderson ; A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Richard Bausch. Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway ; The real thing / Henry James -- Writing prompts from the contributors.

"An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer,' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves. Reaching Inside is the far-ranging end result of that invitation. For practitioners of the personal essay and other forms of creative nonfiction, this anthology is fifty examples of how to write about the "I" as well as the 'eye.' For teachers of creative writing, it is fifty inspiring songs of praise for the kind of writing that aspires to art. For professors of literature, it is fifty models for how to think and write critically. And for readers, Reaching Inside is simply a moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays that reach inside us and, as Tolstoy wrote, 'transfer feeling from one person's heart to another person's heart.' Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading"-- Provided by publisher.

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