The five-forty-eight / John Cheever
Distant music / Ann Beattie
Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw
The whore of Mensa / Woody Allen
What it was like, seeing Chris / Deborah Eisenberg
Drawing Room B / John O'Hara
A sentimental journey / Peter Taylor
The balloon / Donald Barthelme
Smart money / Philip Roth
Another marvellous thing / Laurie Colwin
The failure / Jonathan Franzen
Apartment hotel / Sally Benson
The catbird seat / James Thurber
Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike
I see you, Bianca / Maeve Brennan
You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore
Symbols and signs / Vladimir Nabokov
Poor visitor / Jamaica Kincaid
In Greenwich, there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher
Some nights when nothing happens are the best nights in this place / John McNulty
Slight rebellion off Madison / J.D. Salinger
Brownstone / Renata Adler
The cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer
The evolution of knowledge / Niccolo Tucci
The way we live now / Susan Sontag
Do the windows open? / Julie Hecht
The Mentocrats / Edward Newhouse
The treatment / Daniel Menaker
Arrangement in black and white / Dorothy Parker
Carlyle tries polygamy / William Melvin Kelley
Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford
Notes from a bottle / James Stevenson
Man in the middle of the ocean / Daniel Fuchs
Mespoulets of the splendide / Ludwig Bemelmans
Over by the river / William Maxwell
Baster / Jeffrey Eugenides
The second tree from the corner / E.B. White
Rembrandt's hat / Bernard Malamud
Shot : a New York story / Elizabeth Hardwick
A father-to-be / Saul Bellow
Farewell, my lovely appetizer / S.J. Perelman.
