Gotham Writers' Workshop fiction gallery : exceptional short stories selected by New York's acclaimed creative writing school / edited by Alexander Steele and Thom Didato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, Alexander.

Didato, Thom.

Gotham Writers' Workshop.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Fiction gallery

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004.

Summary:

A collection of accessible and excellent short fiction is hand-picked by the country's most popular writing school. Each of the stories in "Fiction Gallery" will hold readers spellbound from first to last page, while also exemplifying the very best in literary fiction.

Contents:

Introduction

Starting out. A trifle from life / Anton Chekhov

First confession / Frank O'Connor

Brownies / ZZ Packer

What the river told us to do / Peter Markus

Going for the Orange Julius / Myla Goldberg

Longings. Labors of the heart / Claire Davis

Crazy life / Lou Mathews

Sometimes you talk about Idaho / Pam Houston

After the plague / T.C. Boyle

Those we know. Here we are / Dorothy Parker

Whoever was using this bed / Raymond Carver

For a long time this was Griselda's story / Anthony Doerr

Home sweet home / Hannah Tinti

The job. "Orientation / Daniel Orozco

Walking into the wind / John O'Farrell

Night women / Edwidge Danticat

The palace thief / Ethan Canin

Strangeness. The book of sand / Jorge Luis Borges

The next building I plan to bomb / Charles Baxter

The secrets of bats / Jess Row

The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri

Sunset. The swimmer / John Cheever

The story of an hour / Kate Chopin

I want to live! / Thom Jones

Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Interview with T.C. Boyle

Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri

Interview with Hannah Tinti.

ISBN:

1582344620

OCLC:

54753364