From the Book - 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
The garden party / Katherine Mansfield
Half a grapefruit / Alice Munro
Applause, applause / Jean Thompson
I know what I'm doing about all the attention I've been getting / Frank Gannon
Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith
The best of Betty / Jincy Willett
Song of the spirit, 1941 / Dorothy Parker
The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates
People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore
Revelation / Flannery O'Connor
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel
Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma
Irish girl / Tim Johnston
Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff
Epilogue: about 826NYC / Sarah Vowell.