From the Book - Touchstone trade paperback ed., rev. and updated 2nd ed.
Introduction / Rosellen Brown
Sarah Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks
The school / Donald Barthelme
The hermit's story / Rick Bass
The fireman's wife / Richard Bausch
The disappeared / Charles Baxter
The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier
Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler
Never marry a Mexican / Sandra Cisneros
After Rosa Parks / Janet Desaulniers
The caretaker / Anthony Doerr
Twilight of the superheroes / Deborah Eisenberg
Tiny, smiling Daddy / Mary Gaitskill
Winners on the pass line / Dagoberto Gilb
A real doll / A.M. Holmes
How far she went / Mary Hood
Car crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson
The pugilist at rest / Thom Jones
A temporary matter / Jhumpa Lahiri
Territory / David Leavitt
Stone animals / Kelly Link
The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight
The secret goldfish / David Means
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Female trouble / Antonya Nelson
The translation / Joyce Carol Oates
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien
Orientation / Daniel Orozco
Pilgrims / Julie Orringer
The half-skinned steer / E. Annie Proulx
The cavemen in the hedges / Stacey Richter
Sea oak / George Saunders
Tony's story / Leslie Marmon Silko
The way we live now / Susan Sontag
Xmas, Jamaica Plain / Melanie Rae Thon
Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker
The rest of her life / Steve Yarbrough.
