TY - BOOK AU - Updike,John AU - Kenison,Katrina TI - The best American short stories of the century SN - 0395843677 (pbk.) AV - PS648.S5 B45 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Short stories, American KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - United States KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction N1 - Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series; Half-skinned steer; Annie Proulx; Little selves; Mary Lerner --; Jury of her peers; Susan Glaspell --; Other woman; Sherwood Anderson --; Golden honeymoon; Ring Lardner --; Blood-burning moon; Jean Toomer --; Killers; Ernest Hemingway --; Resurrection of a life; William Saroyan --; Christmas gift; Robert Penn Warren --; Bright and morning star; Richard Wright --; Hitch-hikers; Eudora Welty --; Peach stone; Paul Horgan --; "That in Aleppo once..."; Vladimir Nabokov --; Interior castle; Jean Stafford --; Miami-New York; Martha Gellhorn --; Second tree from the corner; E.B. White --; Farmer's children; Elizabeth Bishop --; Death of a favorite; J.F. Powers --; Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin; Tennessee Williams --; Country husband; John Cheever --; Greenleaf; Flannery O'Connor --; Ledge; Lawrence Sargent Hall --; Defender of the faith; Philip Roth --; Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers; Stanley Elkin --; German refugee; Bernard Malamud --; Where are you going, where have you been?; Joyce Carol Oates --; Rotifer; Mary Ladd Gavell --; Gold Coast; James Alan McPherson --; Key; Isaac Bashevis Singer --; Cty of churches; Donald Barthelme --; How to win; Rosellen speaks; Harold Brodkey --; Silver dish; Saul Bellow --; Gesturing; John Updike --; Shawl; Cynthia Ozick --; Where I'm calling from; Raymond Carver --; Janus; Ann Beattie --; Way we live now; Susan Sontag --; Things they carried; Tim O'Brien --; Meneseteung; Alice Munro --; You're ugly, too; Lorrie Moore --; I want to live !; Thom Jones --; In the gloaming; Alice Elliott Dark --; Proper library; Carolyn Ferrell --; Birthmates; Gish Jen --; Soon; Pam Durban --; Half-skinned steer; Annie Proulx UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hm021/00269492.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm021/00269492.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/00269492-b.html ER -