Bliss / Katherine Mansfield -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Everything the rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The fat girl / Andre Dubus -- La grande breteche / Honore de Balzac -- The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera -- Jeeves takes charge / Pelham Grenville Wodehouse -- Lullaby / Leslie Marmon Silko -- My first goose / Isaac Babel -- The news from Ireland / William Trevor -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- The white horses of Vienna / Kay Boyle -- Why I live at the p. o. / Eudora Welty.
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