From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / Gordon Lish --
Introduction / Tom Wolfe --
Lady / Bruce Jay Friedman --
The warrior / William Harrison --
Neighbors / Raymond Carver --
Men against the sea / Alan V. Hewat --
In the men's room of the sixteenth century / Don DeLillo --
I am Elijah Thrush / James Purdy --
The lover / Joy Williams --
Mr. Steal / James S. Reinbold --
Wednesday / Joyce Carol Oates --
The letter / Bernard Malamud --
In Utica / Jerry Bumpus --
Blacaman the good, vendor of miracles / Gabriel Garcia Marquez --
Eight meetings / Thomas Bontly --
A Russian beauty / Vladimir Nabokov --
The interrogation of the prisoner Bung by Mister Hawkins and Sergeant Tree / David Huddle --
Shorelines / Joy Williams --
Family portrait / James S. Reinbold --
The widow Ching, lady pirate / Jorge Luis Borges --
Facing the forests / A.B. Yehoshua --
The lost chapters of Trout fishing in America / Richard Brautigan --
The header, the rigger, the captain / Earl Thompson --
Dunyazadiad / John Barth --
Some moldenke / David Ohle --
The temptation of St. Ivo / John Gardner --
A sorrowful woman / Gail Godwin --
Note: what I think pudding says / John Deck --
The song of Grendel / John Gardner --
A great feeling / Michael Rogers --
Eating it / William Harrison --
A snag in the harp / Robert Ullian --
What is it? / Raymond Carver --
Almost in Iowa / John Irving --
Room temperature / Raymond Kennedy --
The sex maniac / Hilma Wolitzer --
The great western civilization caper / Sybil Claiborne.
