Katherine Anne Porter / The downward path to wisdom --
Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus complex --
William Carlos Williams / The use of force --
Dylan Thomas / The tree --
Elizabeth Bowen / Songs my father sang me --
D.H. Lawrence / The rocking-horse winner --
Robert Penn Warren / Blackberry winter --
John Cheever / The sorrows of gin --
E.M. Forster / The celestial omnibus --
Flannery O'Connor / The artificial nigger --
Graham Greene / The innocent --
William Faulkner / Barn burning --
Conrad Aiken / Silent snow, secret snow --
Philip Roth / The conversion of the Jews --
Eudora Welty / A visit of charity --
Ernest Hemingway / The capital of the world --
Carson McCullers / Wunderkind --
Herbert Gold / Susanna at the beach --
F. Scott Fitzgerald / The freshest boy --
Katherine Mansfield / The garden party --
John Updike / Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth --
Willa Cather / Paul's case --
Kay Boyle / Your body is a jewel box --
John Collier / Ah, the university --
Lionel Trilling / Of this time, of that place --
Sherwood Anderson / I'm a fool --
John Steinbeck / Flight --
Bernard Malamud / A summer's reading --
Truman Capote / A tree of night --
Delmore Schwartz / In dreams begin responsibilities.
