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Tables of Contents for You'Ve Got to Read This
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
A Mother's Tale
1
18
James Agee
Introduced
Annie Dillard
Guy de Maupassant
19
10
Isaac Babel
Introduced
Francine Prose
Sonny's Blues
29
28
James Baldwin
Introduced
Kenneth A. McClane
The School
57
6
Donald Barthelme
Introduced
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Aleph
63
14
Jorge Luis Borges
Introduced
Oscar Hijuelos
A Day in the Open
77
10
Jane Bowles
Introduced
Joy Williams
A Distant Episode
87
14
Paul Bowles
Introduced
John L'Heureux
The Star Cafe
101
18
Mary Caponegro
Introduced
John Hawkes
Reflections
119
16
Angela Carter
Introduced
Robert Coover
Cathedral
135
16
Raymond Carver
Introduced
Tobias Wolff
Goodbye, My Brother
151
24
John Cheever
Introduced
Allan Gurganus
Gooseberries
175
12
Anton Chekhov
Introduced
Eudora Welty
A Christmas Carol
187
62
Chales Dickens
Introduced
John Irving
Pie Dance
249
8
Molly Giles
Introduced
Amy Tan
Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases
257
14
Lars Gustafsson
Introduced
Charles Baxter
The Interview
271
12
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Introduced
Jane Smiley
The Dead
283
36
James Joyce
Introduced
Mary Gordon
In the Penal Colony
319
24
Franz Kafka
Introduced
Joyce Carol Oates
Girl
343
6
Jamaica Kincaid
Introduced
Stephanie Vaughn
The Smallest Woman in the World
349
10
Clarice Lispector
Introduced
Julia Alvarez
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
359
20
Katherine Mansfield
Introduced
Deborah Eisenberg
Labor Day Dinner
379
22
Alice Munro
Introduced
David Leavitt
Spring in Fialta
401
20
Vladimir Nabokov
Introduced
Jim Shepard
The Things They Carried
421
18
Tim O'Brien
Introduced
Bobbie Ann Mason
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
439
18
Flannery O'Connor
Introduced
Sue Miller
I Stand Here Ironing
457
10
Tillie Olsen
Introduced
Amy Hempel
Wants
467
4
Grace Paley
Introduced
Janet Kauffman
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
471
10
Delmore Schwartz
Introduced
Tim O'Brien
The Man to Send Rain Clouds
481
8
Leslie Marmon Silko
Introduced
Louis Owens
Helping
489
24
Robert Stone
Introduced
Louise Erdrich
Master and Man
513
46
Leo Tolstoy
Introduced
Ron Hansen
Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car
559
20
John Updike
Introduced
Lorrie Moore
The Flowers
579
6
Alice Walker
Introduced
Edward P. Jones
No Place for You, My Love
585
18
Eudora Welty
Introduced
Russell Banks
Paper Garden
603
12
Jerome Wilson
Introduced
Al Young
About the Authors
615