TY - BOOK AU - Williford,Lex AU - Martone,Michael TI - The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction: 50 North American stories since 1970 SN - 9781416532279 U1 - 823 21 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories, American KW - Short stories, Canadian KW - Canada KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction N1 - A Touchstone book; 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 --; Silver water; Amy Bloom --; Caviar; T. C. Boyle --; The ceiling; Kevin Brockmeier --; Jealous husband returns in form of parrot; Robert Olen Butler --; Never marry a Mexican; Sandra Cisneros --; Relief; Peter Ho Davies --; After Rosa Parks; Janet Desaulniers --; Nilda; Junot Di?az --; The caretaker; Anthony Doerr --; We didn't; Stuart Dybek --; Twilight of the superheroes; Deborah Eisenberg --; Communist; Richard Ford --; Tiny, smiling Daddy; Mary Gaitskill --; Winners on the pass line; Dagoberto Gilb --; Wickedness; Ron Hansen --; A real doll; A. M. Holmes --; How far she went; Mary Hood --; Car crash while hitchhiking; Denis Johnson --; Marie; Edward P. Jones --; The pugilist at rest; Thom Jones --; Girl; Jamaica Kincaid --; 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 --; Lust; Susan Minot --; Boys; Rick Moody --; 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 --; Brownies; ZZ Packer --; The half-skinned steer; E. Anne Proulx --; The cavemen in the hedges; Stacey Richter --; Sea oak; George Saunders --; My shape; Joan Silber --; Tony's story; Leslie Marmon Silko --; The way we live now; Susan Sontag --; Two kinds; Amy Tan --; Xmas, Jamaica Plain; Melanie Rae Thon --; Nineteen fifty-five; Alice Walker --; The rest of her life; Steve Yarbrough ER -