Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1999.
Description:xxiv, 775 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.
Note:Zelig (Benjamin Rosenblatt) -- 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) -- The Rotifer (Mary Ladd Gavell) -- Gold Coast (James Alan McPherson) -- The Key (Isaac Bashevis Singer) -- A City of churches (Donald Barthelme) -- How to win (Rosellen Brown) -- Roses, rhododendron (Alice Adams) -- Verona : a young woman speaks (Harold Brodkey) -- A Silver dish (Saul Bellow) -- Gesturing (John Updike) -- The Shawl (Cynthia Ozick) -- Where I'm calling from (Raymond Carver) -- Janus (Ann Beattie) -- The Way we live now (Susan Sontag) -- The 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) -- The Half-skinned steer (Annie Proulx).
