| Description |
xvi, 332 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. On writing short stories -- What makes a short story / Francine Prose -- Reading as a writer : the artist as craftsman / Joyce Carol Oates -- Character, plot, setting and time, metaphor, and voice / Tom Bailey -- Writer's workshop / Frank Conroy -- Habit of writing / Andre Dubus -- Why write? taking on the world / Robert Coles -- Publishers and publishing / C. Michael Curtis -- pt. 2. Short stories -- String / Guy de Maupassant -- Lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- A & P / John Updike -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Darkness of love / Robert Boswell -- Father's story / Andre Dubus -- Lust / Susan Minot -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- pt. 3. Magazines, journals, and quarterlies publishing short stories. |
| Subject |
Short story -- Authorship.
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Short story -- Technique.
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| Added Author |
Prose, Francine, 1947-
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Bailey, Tom, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0195122720 (pbk.) |
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