The Story and Its Writer--Eighth Edition

Collection contains: Stories: Civil Peace / Chinua Achebe -- Silent Snow, Secret Snow / Conrad Aiken -- In a Bamboo Grove / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Sherman Alexie -- Act of Vengeance / Isabel Allende -- Hands / Sherwood Anderson -- Happy Endings / Margaret Atwood -- Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin -- Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat / Russell Banks -- San Francisco / Lynda Barry -- Indian Uprising / Donald Barthelme -- Snow / Ann Beattie -- From Fun Home: Old Father, Old Artificer / Alison Bechdel -- Rememberer / Aimee Bender -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- Circular Ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Greasy Lake / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains / Ray Bradbury -- Guest / Albert Camus -- Werewolf / Angela Carter -- Cathedral; A Small, Good Thing ; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Raymond Carver -- Paul's Case / Willa Carter -- Water Names / Lan Samantha Chang -- Swimmer / John Cheever -- Darling ; Lady with the Little Dog / Anton Chekhov -- Désiré́e's Baby; Story of an Hour