The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Shorter Seventh Edition

by Richard Bausch (Editor), R.V. Cassill (Editor)

Chronological table of contents
Preface
Writing about fiction
Stories
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
Death by Landscape
Related: Atwood, Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Gorilla, my love
Related: Bambara, What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara
Snow / Ann Beattie
Occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce
Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges
Miriam /Truman Capote
Cathedral
Related: Carver, From on writing / Raymond Carver
Paul's case
Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's case / Willa Cather
Enormous radio / John Cheever
Lady with the dog
Related: Chekhov, Letter to DV Grigorovich
Letter to A S Suvorin / Anton Chekhov
Story of an hour / Kate Chopin
Heart of darkness
Related: Conrad, Preface to the nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark -- Barry Hannah on heart of darkness -- C P Sarvan, Racism and the heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- Continuity of parks / Julio Cortazar -- Open boat -- Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard -- Allan Gurganus on the open boat -- Charles C Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] / Stephen Crane -- Wall of fire rising / Edwidge Danticat -- Intruder / Andre Dubus -- King of the bingo game -- Related: Ellison, an interview / Ralph Ellison -- Matchimanito / Louise Erdrich -- Barn burning -- Rose for Emily -- Related: Faulkner, an interview / William Faulkner -- Babylon revisited / F Scott Fitzgerald -- Great falls -- Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's -- Management of grief / Richard Ford -- Handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Soldier's embrace / Nadine Gordimer -- Young Goodman Brown -- Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hills like white elephants -- Related: Frederick Busch on hills like white elephants -- Hemingway, an interview / Ernest Hemingway -- Conscience of the court / Zora Neale Hurston -- Araby -- Dead -- Related: C C Loomis, Jr., structure and sympathy in Joyce's The dead'' / James Joyce
Metamorphosis
Hunger artist
Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's the metamorphosis: metamorphosis of the metaphor
Kafka, Letter to Max Brod / Franz Kafka
White horse / Yasunari Kawabata
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid
Horse dealer's daughter
Rocking horse winner
Related: Lawrence, Why the novel matters / DH Lawrence
Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K Le Guin
Angel Levine / Bernard Malamud
Disorder and early sorrow
Related: Mann, letter to Paul Amann / Thomas Mann
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason
Adventure in Paris
Related: Maupassant, the novel / Guy De Maupassant
Why I like country music / James Alan Mcpherson
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Related: Leo Marx, Melville's parable of the walls / Herman Melville
Management of grief
Related: Richard Ford on the Management of grief
Mukherjee, a four-hundred-year-old woman / Bharati Mukherjee
Royal beatings
Related: Munro, What is real? / Alice Munro
Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit house of correction and began my life over again
Related: Oates, the Art and craft of revision / Joyce Carol Oates
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Good man is hard to find
Everything that rises must converge
Related: O'Connor, the Nature and aim of fiction
Lee Smith on a good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Guests of the nation
Related: Edward P Jones on Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
O yes / Tillie Olsen
Fall of the house of usher
Related: Poe, the Philosophy of composition
Poe, Review of Hawthorne's twice told tales
Richard Wilbur, the House of Poe / Edgar Allan Poe
Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Related: Porter, an interview / Katherine Anne Porter
Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth
Gimpel the fool / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Rules of the game / Amy Tan
Secret life of Walter Mitty
Related: Thurber, an interview / James Thurber
Death of Ivan Ilych
Related: Gary Saul Morson, the Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the poetics of didactic fiction
Tolstoy, What is art? / Leo Tolstoy
A & P
Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells medal / John Updike
Moths / Helena Maria Viramontes
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Blackberry winter / Robert Penn Warren
Worn path
Related: Susan Dodd on a Worn path
Welty, an interview / Eudora Welty
Use of force / William Carlos Williams
In the garden of the North American martyrs / Tobias Wolff
Kew gardens / Virginia Woolf
Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Writers On Writing
Why do you write? / Margaret Atwood
What is it I think I'm doing anyhow? / Toni Cade Bambara
Letter to a young writer / Richard Bausch
from On writing / Raymond Carver
Letter to DV Grigorovich, March 28, 1886
Letter to AS Suvorin, October 27, 1888 / Anton Chekhov
Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus'' -- Letter to Barrett H Clark, Ma...

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Reference, Writing, School, Classics, Teaching

929 pages, Paperback

Published January 24, 2006

About the author

An acknowledged master of the short story form, Richard Bausch's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Narrative, Gentleman's Quarterly. Playboy, The Southern Review, New Stories From the South, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize Stories; and they have been widely anthologized, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Vintage Book of the Contemporary American Short Story.

Richard Bausch is the author of eleven novels and eight collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers, Violence, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America And All The Ships At Sea, In The Night Season, Hello To The Cannibals, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace; and the story collections Spirits, The Fireman's Wife, Rare & Endangered Species, Someone To Watch Over Me, The Stories of Richard Bausch, Wives & Lovers, and most recently released Something Is Out There. His novel The Last Good Time was made into a feature-length film.

He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the 2013 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence . He has been a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers since 1996. In 1999 he signed on as co-editor, with RV Cassill, of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction; since Cassill's passing in 2002, Bausch is the sole editor of that prestigious anthology. Richard Bausch teaches Creative Writing at Chapman University in Southern California

Reviews

[Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

I added this particular collection to my bookshelf because it's the best summation of short fiction canon that I've come across. Of course, that is not to say that these are the only short stories worth reading, but it has the widest variety and spans the most time. It was also comes with biographies of the authors and footnotes.

My personal favorites of this collection include "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, and Philip Roth's "Conversion of the Jews." Of course most of the titles in this collection are recognizable.

The book also includes essays and interviews from the authors either on specific stories or on writing in general.

[Rebecca]

Okay, I didn't read all of this book, but I have read all that I am going to be reading. At least for the time being. Some of the stories I read in class were alright some of them even good. However, there were some pretty bad ones as well.

[Ellen Allerton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A long time favorite of mine because of the variety of stoies offered and the questions at the end of each story. I took a short stories class in college and I loved reading all of these stories and the discussions that followed.

[Nik Markevicius · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve read this book over the last 15 years, a couple pages at a time, while in the bathroom. No joke. It’s a good way to explore literary fiction without committing your entire reading schedule to it.

Besides, when you ready a crappy story, it’s cathartic to flush!

[D.]

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Shorter 7th Edition by Richard Bausch (2006)

[Cecily Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good variety of stories.

[Hillary · Rating 5 out of 5]

This compilation is expertly put together. From Hemingway to Malamud, Tolstoy to Beattie, it encompasses all aspects of human existance.

[Lucas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of goodreads in here.

[Anna Tatelman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great, diverse selection of authors & stories.

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laurence, Atwood, Munro, Oates, Johnson, Wilkins Freeman almost make up for the throwaway that de Maupassant probably wrote while sneaking drugs while on the can

[Laurel]

Death by Landscape Atwood