Introduction J. Gerald Kennedy

1. Henry James's Incipient Poetics of the Short Story Sequence: The Finer Grain (1910) Richard A. Hocks

2. Toomer's Cane as narrative sequence Linda Wagner-Martin

3. Hemingway's In Our Time: the biography of a book Michael Reynolds

4. Wright writing reading: narrative strategies in Uncle Tom's Children John Lowe

5. The African-American voice in Faulkner's Go Down Moses John Carlos Rowe

6. Meditations on nonpresence: re-visioning the short story in Eudora Welty's The Wide Net Susan V. Donaldson

7. Nine Stories: J. D. Salinger's linked mysteries Ruth Prigozy

8. Cheever's Shady Hill: a suburban sequence Scott Donaldson

9. John Updike's Olinger Stories: new light among the shadows Robert M. Luscher

10. Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: narrative communities and the short story sequence Hertha D. Wong

11. From Anderson's Winesburg to Carver's Cathedral: the short story sequence and the semblance of community J. Gerald Kennedy.