You'Ve Got to Read This

by Hansen, Ron; Shepard, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780060982027
• ISBN10: 0060982020
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-17
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Thirty-four of America's most distinguished fiction writers--including Oscar Hijuelos, John Irving, and Joyce Carol Oates--introduce the short stories that inspired them most.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
A Mother's Tale	1	(18)
James Agee
Introduced
Annie Dillard
Guy de Maupassant	19	(10)
Isaac Babel
Introduced
Francine Prose
Sonny's Blues	29	(28)
James Baldwin
Introduced
Kenneth A. McClane
The School	57	(6)
Donald Barthelme
Introduced
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Aleph	63	(14)
Jorge Luis Borges
Introduced
Oscar Hijuelos
A Day in the Open	77	(10)
Jane Bowles
Introduced
Joy Williams
A Distant Episode	87	(14)
Paul Bowles
Introduced
John L'Heureux
The Star Cafe	101	(18)
Mary Caponegro
Introduced
John Hawkes
Reflections	119	(16)
Angela Carter
Introduced
Robert Coover
Cathedral	135	(16)
Raymond Carver
Introduced
Tobias Wolff
Goodbye, My Brother	151	(24)
John Cheever
Introduced
Allan Gurganus
Gooseberries	175	(12)
Anton Chekhov
Introduced
Eudora Welty
A Christmas Carol	187	(62)
Chales Dickens
Introduced
John Irving
Pie Dance	249	(8)
Molly Giles
Introduced
Amy Tan
Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases	257	(14)
Lars Gustafsson
Introduced
Charles Baxter
The Interview	271	(12)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Introduced
Jane Smiley
The Dead	283	(36)
James Joyce
Introduced
Mary Gordon
In the Penal Colony	319	(24)
Franz Kafka
Introduced
Joyce Carol Oates
Girl	343	(6)
Jamaica Kincaid
Introduced
Stephanie Vaughn
The Smallest Woman in the World	349	(10)
Clarice Lispector
Introduced
Julia Alvarez
The Daughters of the Late Colonel	359	(20)
Katherine Mansfield
Introduced
Deborah Eisenberg
Labor Day Dinner	379	(22)
Alice Munro
Introduced
David Leavitt
Spring in Fialta	401	(20)
Vladimir Nabokov
Introduced
Jim Shepard
The Things They Carried	421	(18)
Tim O'Brien
Introduced
Bobbie Ann Mason
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	439	(18)
Flannery O'Connor
Introduced
Sue Miller
I Stand Here Ironing	457	(10)
Tillie Olsen
Introduced
Amy Hempel
Wants	467	(4)
Grace Paley
Introduced
Janet Kauffman
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities	471	(10)
Delmore Schwartz
Introduced
Tim O'Brien
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	481	(8)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Introduced
Louis Owens
Helping	489	(24)
Robert Stone
Introduced
Louise Erdrich
Master and Man	513	(46)
Leo Tolstoy
Introduced
Ron Hansen
Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car	559	(20)
John Updike
Introduced
Lorrie Moore
The Flowers	579	(6)
Alice Walker
Introduced
Edward P. Jones
No Place for You, My Love	585	(18)
Eudora Welty
Introduced
Russell Banks
Paper Garden	603	(12)
Jerome Wilson
Introduced
Al Young
About the Authors	615