Sonny's Blues / James Baldwin ; Weekend / Ann Beattie ; The Bystander / Gina Berriault ; The Amish Farmer / Vance Bourjaily ; 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 / Richard Brautigan ; Verona : A Young Woman Speaks / Harold Brodkey ; Talk of Heroes / Carol Bly ; Fever / Raymond Carver ; The Fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell ; Midair / Frank Conroy ; Willi / E.L. Doctorow ; The Fat Girl / Andre Dubus ; A Poetics for Bullies / Stanley Elkin ; Rock Springs / Richard Ford ; The Lover of Horses / Tess Gallagher ; Redemption / John Gardner ; Dream Children / Gail Godwin ; The Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall ; Water Liars / Barry Hannah ; Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin ; Ile Forest / Ursula K. Le Guin ; The Magic Barrel / Bernard Malamud ; Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason ; The Story of a Scar / James Alan McPherson ; Murderers / Leonard Michaels ; The Misfits / Arthur Miller ; Where are You Going, Where have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates ; A Good Man is Hard to Find / Flannery O'Connor ; The Used - Boy Raisers / Grace Paley ; The Heavenly Animal / Jayne Anne Phillips ; Walking Out / David Quammen ; The Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth ; Akhnilo / James Salter ; The Christian Roommates / John Updike ; The Wedding / Joy Williams ; The Liar / Tobias Wolff