pt. 1. On writing short stories
What makes a short story / Francine Prose
Reading as a writer: the artist as craftsman / Joyce Carol Oates
Character, plot, setting and time, metaphor, and voice / Tom Bailey
Writer's workshop / Frank Conroy
Habit of writing / Andre Dubus
Why write? taking on the world / Robert Coles
Publishers and publishing / C. Michael Curtis
String / Guy de Maupassant
Lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
Rose for Emily / William Faulkner
Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Saint Marie / Louise Erdrich
Things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Darkness of love / Robert Boswell
Father's story / Andre Dubus
Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff
pt. 3. Magazines, journals, and quarterlies publishing short stories.
