by Lorin Stein
WELLS TOWER’s short fiction and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Paris Review. He is the author of the short story collection Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, and was named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” fiction writers.
DALLAS WIEBE was the author of several volumes of stories, essays, and poems, as well as the founder of the creative writing program at the University of Cincinnati. He died in 2010.
JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four novels, three story collections, a book of nonfiction, and a travel guide. Her most recent novel, The Quick and the Dead, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
Acknowledgments
The editors wish to thank Josh Anderson, Allison Bulger, Jessica Calderon, Julian Delacruz, Emma Gallwey, Elizabeth Nelson, Artemis Niederhoffer, and Emma del Valle and all of the writers, past and present, who contributed their work to this anthology.
“Another Drunk Gambler” by Craig Nova, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1986 by Craig Nova. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Bangkok” by James Salter, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 2003 by James Salter. Reprinted by permission of The Paris Review.
“The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge” by Evan S. Connell, originally published in The Paris Review. Reprinted by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. © 1959, renewed 1987 by Evan S. Connell.
“Car Crash While Hitchhiking” from Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson. Copyright © 1992 by Denis Johnson. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“City Boy” from The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels. Copyright © 2007 by Katharine Ogden Michaels. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
“Dimmer” by Joy Williams, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1969 by Joy Williams. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Dinner at the Bank of England” from The Cardiff Team by Guy Davenport. Copyright © 1993, 1995, 1996 by Guy Davenport. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Emmy Moore’s Journal” from “My Sister’s Hand in Mine: An Expanded Edition” of The Collected Works of Jane Bowles by Jane Bowles. Copyright © 1970, 1978 by Paul Bowles. Reprinted in the U.S. by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted electronically, in Canada, and in the United Kingdom, by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
“Except for the Sickness I’m Quite Healthy Now. You Can Believe That” by Thomas Glynn, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1968 by Thomas Glynn. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Flying Carpets” from The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser. Copyright © 1998 by Steven Millhauser. Used by permission of Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Funes, the Memorious” by Jorges Luis Borges. Copyright © 1995 Maria Kodama, reprinted electronically by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Collected in Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by James E. Irby, copyright © 1962, 1964, 2007 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Translation reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Likely Lake” from Tell Me: 30 Stories by Mary Robison. Copyright © 2002 by Mary Robison. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
“Lying Presences” by Norman Rush, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1982 by Norman Rush. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
“Night Flight to Stockholm” by Dallas Wiebe, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1978 by Dallas Wiebe. Reprinted by permission of the Dallas Wiebe Estate.
“Old Birds” by Bernard Cooper. Reprinted with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Guess Again!: Short Stories by Bernard Cooper. Copyright © 2000 by Bernard Cooper. All rights reserved.
“The Palace Thief” from The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin. Copyright © 1994 by Ethan Canin. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
“Pelican Song” by Mary-Beth Hughes, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 2004 by Mary-Beth Hughes. Reprinted by permission of The Paris Review.
“Several Garlic Tales” by Donald Barthelme, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 1966 by Donald Barthelme. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
“Ten Stories from Flaubert” by Lydia Davis, originally published in The Paris Review. Copyright © 2010 by Lydia Davis. Reprinted by permission of The Paris Review.
“Why Don’t You Dance” from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981 by Raymond Carver. Reprinted by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC.
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