From the Book - First edition.
Dimmer / Joy Williams ; introduced by Daniel Alarcón --
Another drunk gambler / Craig Nova ; introduced by Ann Beattie --
City boy / Leonard Michaels ; introduced by David Bezmozgis --
Emmy Moore's journal / Jane Bowles ; introduced by Lydia Davis --
Bangkok / James Salter ; introduced by Dave Eggers --
Car crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson ; introduced by Jeffrey Eugenides --
Pelican song / Mary-Beth Hughes ; introduced by Mary Gaitskill --
Funes, the memorious / Jorge Luis Borges ; introduced by Aleksandar Hemon --
Old birds / Bernard Cooper ; introduced by Amy Hempel --
Except for the sickness I'm quite healthy now. You can believe that / Thomas Glynn ; introduced by Jonathan Lethem --
Likely Lake / Mary Robison ; introduced by Sam Lipsyte --
Several garlic tales / Donald Barthelme ; introduced by Ben Marcus --
Why don't you dance / Raymond Carver ; introduced by David Means --
The palace thief / Ethan Canin ; introduced by Lorrie Moore --
Flying carpets / Steven Milhauser ; introduced by Daniel Orozco --
Dinner at the Bank of England / Guy Davenport ; introduced by Norman Rush --
Lying presences / Norman Rush ; introduced by Mona Simpson --
Ten stories from Flaubert / Lydia Davis ; introduced by Ali Smith --
The beau monde of Mrs. Bridge / Evan S. Connell ; introduced by Wells Tower --
Night flight to Stockholm / Dallas Wiebe ; introduced by Joy Williams.