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Introduction: Andre Dubus III  

Ann Patchett
            Sonny’s Blues, James Baldwin
            The Long-Distance Runner, Grace Paley

Mary Gordon  
            I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen
            Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter

Madison Smartt Bell  
King of the Mountain, George Garrett
Sredni Vashtar, Saki  

Meg Wolitzer  
            Clay, James Joyce
            Yours, Mary Robison

Dani Shapiro
            Circular Ruins, Jorge Luis Borges
            Getting Closer, Steven Millhauser

ZZ Packer  
            The Paper Lantern, Stuart Dybek
            Solo Song: For Doc, James Alan McPherson

Ann Beattie   
            Bliss, Katherine Mansfield
            The Prince, Craig Nova

T.C. Boyle  
            The Brother, Robert Coover
            The Sorrows of the Flesh, Isabel Huggan

Anthony Doerr  
            The Garden of Forking Paths, Jose Louis Borges
            Continuity of Parks, Julio Cortazar

Gish Jen  
            Barn Burning, William Faulkner
            Bartleby, The Scrivener, Herman Melville

Stewart O’Nan  
            Winter Dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald
            Boys, Rick Moody

Tobias Wolff  
            Wakefield, Nathaniel Hawthorne
            Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates

Jess Walter  
            The School, Donald Barthelme
            Bullet in the Brain, Tobias Wolff

Kirstin Valdez Quade  
            Love, William Maxwell
            Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice Munro

Mona Simpson  
            The Lady with the Dog, Anton Chekhov
            Good People, David Foster Wallace

Richard Russo  
            The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
            The Builders, Richard Yates

Ron Rash  
            Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You, William Gay
            A Worn Path, Eudora Welty

Anna Quindlen  
            The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry
            Wants, Grace Paley

Jayne Anne Phillips  
            A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
            In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, Delmore Schwartz

Edith Pearlman  
            A Love Match, Sylvia Townsend Warner
            Roman Fever, Edith Wharton

Peter Orner  
            Guests of the Nation, Frank O’Connor
            Welcome, John Edgar Wideman

Joyce Carol Oates  
            Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison
            A&P, John Updike
 
Bich Minh Nguyen   
            Cathedral, Raymond Carver
            In the American Society, Gish Jen 

Antonya Nelson  
            Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
            The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor, Deborah Eisenberg

Rick Moody  
            The Company of Wolves, Angela Carter
            The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams

Sue Miller  
            Spanish in the Morning, Edward P. Jones
            The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

Colum McCann  
            A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly, Benedict Kiely
            The Love Object, Edna O’Brien

Lois Lowry  
            A Small, Good Thing, Raymond Carver
            The Management of Grief, Bharati Mukherjee

Dennis Lehane  
            Why Don’t You Dance, Raymond Carver
            The Second Tree from the Corner, E.B. White

Phil Klay         
            The Grand Inquisitor, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
            The Harvest, Amy Hempel

Charles Johnson   
            An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
            Trumpeter, John Gardner

Pam Houston  
            Sara Cole: A Type of Love Story, Russell Banks
            A Note on the Type, Ron Carlson

Ann Hood  
            Girl, Jamaica Kincaid
            Home, Jayne Anne Phillips

Paul Harding
            The Swimmer, John Cheever
            The Jewels of the Cabots, John Cheever

Ron Hansen  
            To Build a Fire, Jack London
            Master and Man, Leo Tolstoy

Jane Hamilton
            Goodbye My Brother, John Cheever
            White Angel, Michael Cunningham 

Jennifer Haigh  
            The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street, Mavis Gallant
            Family Furnishings, Alice Munro

Lauren Groff  
            The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol
            The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick

Robert Boswell  
            Madagascar, Steven Schwartz
            The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy

Russell Banks  
            The Artificial Nigger, Flannery O’Connor
            No Place for You My Love, Eudora Welty 

Julia Glass   
            A Father’s Story, Andre Dubus
            Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
Dagoberto Gilb   
            La Noche Buena, Tomas Rivera
            Paso del Norte, Juan Rulfo

Stuart Dybek  
            The Grasshopper and Bell Cricket, Yasunari Kawabata
            Birds, John O’Brien

Emma Donoghue  
            An Attack of Hunger, Maeve Brennan
            The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Junot Diaz  
            Bloodchild, Octavia Butler
            Night Women, Edwidge Danticat

Michael Cunningham  
            Work, Denis Johnson
            The Dead, James Joyce

Lan Samantha Chang  
            French Lesson I: Le Meurtre, Lydia Davis
            The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
Ron Carlson  
            Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald
            The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Baxter  
            The Corn Planting, Sherwood Anderson
            A Conversation with My Father, Grace Paley

Richard Bausch  
            Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway
            The Real Thing, Henry James