From the Book - 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates --
Gryphon / Charles Baxter --
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri --
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield --
Half a grapefruit / Alice Munro --
Applause, applause / Jean Thompson --
I know what I'm doing about all the attention I've been getting / Frank Gannon --
Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith --
The best of Betty / Jincy Willett --
Song of the spirit, 1941 / Dorothy Parker --
The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates --
People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore --
Revelation / Flannery O'Connor --
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel --
Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma --
Irish girl / Tim Johnston --
Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff --
Epilogue: about 826NYC / Sarah Vowell.