TY - BOOK AU - Updike,John AU - Kenison,Katrina TI - The best American short stories of the century SN - 0395843685 (pbk) U1 - 813.508 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Short stories, American KW - American fiction KW - 20th century N1 - Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series; Zelig; Benjamin Rosenblatt --; Little selves; Mary Lerner --; A jury of her peers; Susan Glaspell --; The other woman; Sherwood Anderson --; The golden honeymoon; Ring Lardner --; Blood-burning moon; Jean Toomer --; The killers; Ernest Hemingway --; Double birthday; Willa Cather --; Wild plums; Grace Stone Coates --; Theft; Katherine Anne Porter --; That evening sun go down; William Faulkner --; Here we are; Dorothy Parker --; Crazy Sunday; F. Scott Fitzgerald --; My dead brother comes to America; Alexander Godin --; Resurrection of a life; William Saroyan --; Christmas gift; Robert Penn Warren --; Bright and morning star; Richard Wright --; The hitch-hikers; Eudora Welty --; The peach stone; Paul Horgan --; "That in Aleppo once..."; Vladimir Nabokov --; The interior castle; Jean Stafford --; Miami-New York; Martha Gellhorn --; The second tree from the corner; E.B. White --; The farmer's children; Elizabeth Bishop --; Death of a favorite; J.F. Powers --; The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin; Tennessee Williams --; The country husband; John Cheever --; Greenleaf; Flannery O'Connor --; The ledge; Lawrence Sargent Hall --; Defender of the faith; Philip Roth --; Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers; Stanley Elkin --; The German refugee; Bernard Malamud --; Where are you going, where have you been?; Joyce Carol Oates --; The rotifer; Mary Ladd Gavell --; Gold Coast; James Alan McPherson --; The key; Isaac Bashevis Singer --; A city of churches; Donald Barthelme --; How to win; Rosellen Brown --; Roses, rhododendron; Alice Adams --; Verona : a young woman speaks; Harold Brodkey --; A silver dish; Saul Bellow --; Gesturing; John Updike --; The shawl; Cynthia Ozick --; Where I'm calling from; Raymond Carver --; Janus; Ann Beattie --; The way we live now; Susan Sontag --; The things they carried; Tim O'Brien --; Meneseteung; Alice Munro --; You're ugly, too; Lorrie Moore --; I want to live !; Thom Jones --; In the gloaming; Alice Elliott Dark --; Proper library; Carolyn Ferrell --; Birthmates; Gish Jen --; Soon; Pam Durban --; The half-skinned steer; Annie Proulx ER -