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Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read, or re-read, the stories selected. On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Malamud and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer and Mako Yoshikawa.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Jackson R. Bryer "The Fourth Alarm" by John Cheever - Lee K. Abbott "A Father's Story" by Andre Dubus - Elliot Ackerman "Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams - Julia Alvarez "Leaving the Colonel" by Molly Giles - Rilla Askew "A Cautionary Tale" by Deborah Eisenberg - Andrea Barrett "The Wounded Soldier" by George Garrett - Richard Bausch "Consolation" by Richard Bausch - Ann Beattie "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty - Doris Betts "How Can I Tell You?" by John O'Hara - Frederick Busch "Triumph Over the Grave" by Denis Johnson - Maud Casey "No One's a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent - Alan Cheuse "Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" by Gina Berriault - Kate Christensen "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver - Susan Coll "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud - Nicholas Delbanco "Dare's Gift" by Ellen Glasgow - R. H. W. Dillard "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien - Ellen Douglas "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway - Andre Dubus "Like Life" by Lorrie Moore - Pamela Erens "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" by William Goyen - George Garrett "The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass "Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles "FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass "My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer "The Bridegroom's Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach "The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor - A. R. Gurney "Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt "Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry "Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle "A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott "Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major "Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore "Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray "Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman "Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk "The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott "Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber "The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman "Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang "The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa "Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravleff


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781640142145
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 666 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1640142142
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2025
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Width: 140 mm


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