Why I Like This Story (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bryer, Jackson R.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446328
• Artikelnr.: 58583517

Autorenporträt

Jackson R. Bryer

Inhaltsangabe

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