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Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers

Joyce Carol Oates

First published 1997
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Grant Wood
Pages xvii+733
Price $34.95
ISBN 0393971767

Date from Amazon. Book says 1998. Only genre and above-threshold authors added. Cover painting: Death on the Ridge Road, 1935, by Grant Wood.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 The Sirens Franz Kafka Essay
20 Father's Last Escape Bruno Schulz Short Story
24 I Used to Live Here Once Jean Rhys Short Fiction
35 Cities & the Dead Italo Calvino Short Fiction
37 Continuous Cities Italo Calvino Short Fiction
50 The Last Days of a Famous Mime Peter Carey Short Story
57 Death of the Right Fielder Stuart Dybek Short Story
60 from Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman Short Fiction
71 Lethal Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
93 The Judgment Franz Kafka Short Story
106 The Burning Baby Dylan Thomas Short Story
183 The Sisters James Joyce Short Story
192 The Sisters (1914) James Joyce Short Story
203 Genesis 19 uncredited Short Fiction
206 The Cave Alicia Ostriker Short Story
209 The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira Ovid Poem
215 Hercules, Deianira, Nessus C. K. Williams Poem
218 The Story of Daedalus and Icarus Ovid Poem
221 Fever Harlan Ellison Short Story
222 Little Red-Cap Grimm's Fairy Tales Short Story
225 The Werewolf Angela Carter Short Story
227 Little Snow-White Grimm's Fairy Tales Short Story
235 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Anne Sexton Poem
246 From The American Notebooks (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne Essay
277 Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
300 Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops Homer Poem
311 The Story of Actaeon Ovid Poem
315 Home Burial Robert Frost Poem
381 The Flood Joy Harjo Short Story
389 The Rats in the Walls H. P. Lovecraft Novelette
405 The Man in the Black Suit Stephen King Short Story
429 Tickets, Please D. H. Lawrence Short Story
461 A Temple of the Holy Ghost Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction
475 The Balloon Donald Barthelme Short Story
496 The Man from Mars Margaret Atwood Novelette
583 I Dated Jane Austen T. Coraghessan Boyle Short Story
602 My Mother Jamaica Kincaid Short Story
691 Family Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
705 Afterword: The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop Joyce Carol Oates Essay
xiii Introduction: Why We Read, Why We Write Joyce Carol Oates Essay