Contents
1.First Heat--Peter Taylor
2.A Modest Proposal--Jean Stafford
3.The Hartleys--John Cheever
4.Mosby's Memoirs
5.The Dumb Waiter--Walter Millen Jr.
6.A Good Man is Hard to Find--Flannery O'Connor
7.You May Safely Gaze--James Purdy
8.The Pale Pink Roast--Grace Paley
9.The Conversion of the Jews--Philip Roth
10.In the Alley--Stanley Elkin
11.The Jewbird--Bernard Malamud
12.In the Region of Ice--Joyce carol oates
13.The Taste of Metal--John Updike
14.Words, Words, Words--George P.Elliott
15.Since When Do They Charge Admission--Wright Morris
16.Murderers--Leonard Michaels
17.Her Sweet Jerome
18.Crossing Over--Richard Elman
19.Snakes Shoes--Ann Beattie
20.Rebecca--Donald Barthelme
21.Archetypes--Robert Greenwood
22.A Hole in California
23.Souvenir--Jayne Anne Phillips
24.Last Minutes--Ivy Goodman
25.The Priest Next Door-Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
26.The Schreuderspitze--Mark Helprin
27.Oh,Joseph, I am so Tired--Richard Yates
28.South Carolina--Blanche McCrary Boyd
29.Residents and Transients--Bobbie Ann Mason
30.The Snowbird--William Wiser
31.Sister--Tobias Wolff
32.Kemp's Homecoming
33.Stop Me If You Have Heard This--R.L.Shafner
34.The Duchess of Yzes--sreven Goldleaf