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Very Good jacket. Rochester. 2019. June 2019. Camden House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781640140585. 286 pages. hardcover. keywords: Reference Writing. DESCRIPTION-On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that Nobody can read like a writer, Why I Like This Story presents essays by fifty leading American writers on their favourite short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, personal and intimate, not only tell us about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Porter, Carver, Hughes, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Kincaid, and Malamud; but the book also includes pieces on stories by less-well-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, and William H. Gass, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kristin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the bookshop or library to read or re-read these stories. CONTENTS: LEE K. ABBOTT: The Fourth Alarm by John Cheever • ELIOT ACKERMAN: A Father's Story by Andre Dubus • JULIA ALVAREZ: Use of Force by William Carlos Williams • RILLA ASKEW: Leaving the Colonel by Molly Giles • ANDREA BARRETT: A Cautionary Tale by Deborah Eisenberg • RICHARD BAUSCH: The Wounded Soldier by George Garrett • ANN BEATTIE: Consolation by Richard Bausch • DORIS BETTS: Where Is the Voice Coming From? by Eudora Welty • FREDERICK BUSCH: How Can I Tell You? by John O'Hara • MAUD CASEY: Triumph Over the Grave by Denis Johnson • ALAN CHEUSE: No One's a Mystery by Elizabeth Tallent • KATE CHRISTENSEN: Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? by Gina Berriault • SUSAN COLL: Cathedral by Raymond Carver • NICHOLAS DELBANCO: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud • R. H. W. DILLARD: Dare's Gift by Ellen Glasgow • ELLEN DOUGLAS: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien • ANDRE DUBUS: In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway • PAMELA ERENS: Like Life by Lorrie Moore • GEORGE GARRETT: Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt by William Goyen • WILLIAM H. GASS: The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James • MOLLY GILES: Sur by Ursula Le Guin • JULIA GLASS: Frago by Phil Klay • HERBERT GOLD: My Father Sits in the Dark by Jerome Weidman • JACK GREER: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter • DORIS GRUMBACH: The Bridegroom's Body by Kay Boyle • OLGA GRUSHIN: The Doorbell by Vladimir Nabokov • A.R. GURNEY: Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor • JANE HAMILTON: Jubilee by Kirstin Valdez Quade • EDMUND KEELEY: Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald • JOYCE KORNBLATT: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by Delmore Schwartz • BEVERLY LOWRY: Goodbye and Good Luck by Grace Paley • JILL McCORKLE: Flight by John Updike • ALICE MCDERMOTT: A Silver Dish by Saul Bellow • CLARENCE MAJOR: Flying Home by Ralph Ellison • EDWARD KELSEY MOORE: Blessed Assurance by Langston Hughes • SABINA MURRAY: Big Black Good Man by Richard Wright • HOWARD NORMAN: Travelin Man by Peter Matthiessen • LESLIE PIETRZYK: Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek • E. ANNIE PROULX: The Pedersen Kid by William H. Gass • JOANNA SCOTT: Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville • RION SCOTT: Old Boys, Old Girls by Edward P. Jones • MARY LEE SETTLE: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber • JOAN SILBER: Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin • ELIZABETH SPENCER: The Laughing Man by J. D. Salinger DIANA WAGMAN: Girl by Jamaica Kincaid • MAKO YOSHIKAWA: The Pura Principle by Junot Diaz • KAO KALIA YOUNG: Fatherland: A Short Story by Viet Thanh Nguyen • MARY KAY ZURAVLEFF: Honeydew by Edith Pearlman. inventory # 44745.
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