Children Playing Before A Statue of Hercules - Contents

Contents

  • Introduction by David Sedaris
  • "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired" by Richard Yates
  • "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter
  • "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
  • "Half A Grapefruit" by Alice Munro
  • "Applause, Applause" by Jean Thompson
  • "I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting" by Frank Gannon
  • "Where the Door Is Always Open and the Welcome Mat Is Out" by Patricia Highsmith
  • "The Best of Betty" by Jincy Willett
  • "Song of the Shirt, 1941" by Dorothy Parker
  • "The Girl with the Blackened Eye" by Joyce Carol Oates
  • "People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk" by Lorrie Moore
  • "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
  • "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel
  • "Cosmopolitan" by Akhil Sharma
  • "Irish Girl" by Tim Johnston
  • "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff
  • Epilogue by Sarah Vowell

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