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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction

by Ann Charters (Editor)

Other authors: Abe Akira (Contributor), Chinua Achebe (Contributor), Sherman Alexie (Contributor), Paula Gunn Allen (Contributor), Woody Allen (Contributor)91 more, Isabel Allende (Contributor), Dorothy Allison (Contributor), Robert Altman (Contributor), Julia Alvarez (Contributor), Martin Amis (Contributor), Sherwood Anderson (Contributor), Margaret Atwood (Contributor), Isaac Babel (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Toni Cade Bambara (Contributor), Russell Banks (Contributor), John Barth (Contributor), Donald Barthelme (Contributor), Rosalie Murphy Baum (Contributor), Ann Beattie (Contributor), Samuel Beckett (Contributor), Gina Berriault (Contributor), Wayne C. Booth (Contributor), Tadeusz Borowski (Contributor), Leslie Brill (Contributor), Robert H. Brinkmeyer (Contributor), Italo Calvino (Contributor), Albert Camus (Contributor), Ethan Canin (Contributor), Angela Carter (Contributor), Charles Chesnutt (Contributor), Sandra Cisneros (Contributor), Robert Coles (Contributor), Julio Cortázar (Contributor), Junot Díaz (Contributor), Don DeLillo (Contributor), Anthony Di Renzo (Contributor), Richard Ellmann (Contributor), Mary Gaitskill (Contributor), Tess Gallagher (Contributor), Mavis Gallant (Contributor), Gabriel García Márquez (Contributor), Sandra M. Gilbert (Contributor), Susan Gubar (Contributor), Janice H. Harris (Contributor), Bessie Head (Contributor), Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Contributor), Amy Hempel (Contributor), James Hillman (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), Corinne Jacker (Contributor), Gustav Janouch (Contributor), Gish Jen (Contributor), Tom Jenks (Contributor), Charles Johnson (Contributor), W. P. Kinsella (Contributor), Olga Knipper (Contributor), Margaret Laurence (Contributor), Ursula Le Guin (Contributor), Leslie Lee (Contributor), Simon O. Lesser (Contributor), Clarice Lispector (Contributor), Lu Xun (Contributor), Ellen McCracken (Contributor), Dorothy Tuck McFarland (Contributor), J. Hillis Miller (Contributor), Lorrie Moore (Contributor), Bharati Mukherjee (Contributor), Vladimir Nabokov (Contributor), J. C. C. Nachtigal (Contributor), Tim O'Brien (Contributor), Julián Olivares (Contributor), Jay Parini (Contributor), William Sydney Porter (Contributor), V. S. Pritchett (Contributor), Alvina E. Quintana (Contributor), Philip Roth (Contributor), Gabrielle Roy (Contributor), Peter Rudy (Contributor), Salman Rushdie (Contributor), Edward Said (Contributor), Arthur M. Saltzman (Contributor), Carol Shields (Contributor), Leslie Marmon Silko (Contributor), John Simon (Contributor), Jane Smiley (Contributor), Susan Sontag (Contributor), Gertrude Stein (Contributor), Amy Tan (Contributor), Lionel Trilling (Contributor), Henri Troyat (Contributor), Helena María Viramontes (Contributor), Kurt Vonnegut (Contributor), John Edgar Wideman (Contributor), Tobias Wolff (Contributor), Marc Zimmerman (Contributor)

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There are some earth-shattering works of fiction here - Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych", Ellison's "Battle Royale", Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been". The anthology is arranged alphabetically, so there is a thematic randomness if you read it straight through. The variety of modern and contemporary stories reveal one common trait of genius writers - the ability to observe the human scene. ( )
  jonbrammer | Jul 1, 2023 |
An excellent short fiction anthology which includes insightful and entertaining commentary from thirty-five of the eighty-four authors represented. ( )
2 vote dreamingtereza | Feb 15, 2006 |
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  CPI | Jul 29, 2016 |
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