The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 » (Revised and Updated)

Lex Williford teaches in the bilingual writing program at the University of Texas, El Paso. He previously taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University and the University of Alabama. His collection of stories, Macauley's Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. He lives with his wife in El Paso, Texas.

Michael Martone has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He is currently teaching at the University of Alabama, where he has directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Double-wide: Collected Fiction is his eighth book of stories. Racing in Place, his third book of nonfiction, will be published in 2008. He has edited six other volumes of prose including the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction with Lex Williford. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Selected from more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors.

Russell Banks • Donald Barthelme • Rick Bass • Richard Bausch • Charles Baxter • Amy Bloom • T.C. Boyle • Kevin Brockmeier • Robert Olen Butler • Sandra Cisneros • Peter Ho Davies • Janet Desaulneirs • Junot Díaz • Anthony Doerr • Stuart Dybek • Deborah Eisenberg • Richard Ford • Mary Gaitskill • Dagoberto Gilb • Ron Hansen • A.M. Homes • Mary Hood • Denis Johnson • Edward P. Jones • Thom Jones • Jamaica Kincaid • Jhumpa Lahiri • David Leavitt • Kelly Link • Reginald McKnight • David Means • Susan Minot • Rick Moody • Bharati Mukherjee • Antonya Nelson • Joyce Carol Oates • Tim O'Brien • Daniel Orozco • Julie Orringer • ZZ Packer • E. Annie Proulx • Stacey Richter • George Saunders • Joan Silber • Leslie Marmon Silko • Susan Sontag • Amy Tan • Melanie Rae Thon • Alice Walker • Steve Yarbrough

Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction by Rosellen Brown Russell Banks - Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story Donald Barthelme - The School Rick Bass - The Hermit's Story Richard Bausch - The Fireman's Wife Charles Baxter - The Disappeared Amy Bloom - Silver Water T. C. Boyle - Caviar Kevin Brockmeier - The Ceiling Robert Olen Butler - Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot Sandra Cisneros - Never Marry a Mexican Peter Ho Davies - Relief Janet Desaulniers - After Rosa Parks Junot Diaz - Nilda Anthony Doerr - The Caretaker Stuart Dybek - We Didn't Deborah Eisenberg - Twilight of the Superheroes Richard Ford - Communist Mary Gaitskill - Tiny, Smiling Daddy Dagoberto Gilb - Winners on the Pass Line Ron Hansen - Wickedness A. M. Homes - A Real Doll Mary Hood - How Far She Went Denis Johnson - Car Crash While Hitchhiking Edward P. Jones - Marie Thom Jones - The Pugilist at Rest Jamaica Kincaid - Girl Jhumpa Lahiri - A Temporary Matter David Leavitt - Territory Kelly Link - Stone Animals Reginald McKnight - The Kind of Light Th at Shines on Texas David Means - The Secret Goldfish Susan Minot - Lust Rick Moody - Boys Bharati Mukherjee - The Management of Grief Antonya Nelson - Female Trouble Joyce Carol Oates - The Translation Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried Daniel Orozco - Orientation Julie Orringer - Pilgrims ZZ Packer - Brownies E. Annie Proulx - The Half-Skinned Steer Stacey Richter - The Cavemen in the Hedges George Saunders - Sea Oak Joan Silber - My Shape Leslie Marmon Silko - Tony's Story Susan Sontag - The Way We Live Now Amy Tan - Two Kinds Melanie Rae Thon - Xmas, Jamaica Plain Alice Walker - Nineteen Fifty-five Steve Yarbrough - The Rest of Her Life Permissions