Gotham Writers' Workshop fiction gallery : exceptional short stories selected by New York's acclaimed creative writing school /

Steele

Gotham Writers' Workshop fiction gallery : exceptional short stories selected by New York's acclaimed creative writing school / [print] edited by Alexander Steele and Thom Didato. - first U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004. - 356 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographies and index.

Starting out. A trifle from life / First confession / Brownies / What the river told us to do / Going for the Orange Julius / Longings. Labors of the heart / Crazy life / Sometimes you talk about Idaho / After the plague / Those we know. Here we are / Whoever was using this bed / For a long time this was Griselda's story / Home sweet home / The job. Orientation / Walking into the wind / Night women / The palace thief / Strangeness. The book of sand / The next building I plan to bomb / The secrets of bats / The third and final continent / Sunset. The swimmer / The story of an hour / I want to live! / Dr. Heidegger's experiment / Interview with T.C. Boyle -- Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri -- Interview with Hannah Tinti. Anton Chekhov -- Frank O'Connor -- ZZ Packer -- Peter Markus -- Myla Goldberg -- Claire Davis -- Lou Mathews -- Pam Houston -- T.C. Boyle -- Dorothy Parker -- Raymond Carver -- Anthony Doerr -- Hannah Tinti -- Daniel Orozco -- John O'Farrell -- Edwidge Danticat -- Ethan Canin -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Charles Baxter -- Jess Row -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- John Cheever -- Kate Chopin -- Thom Jones -- Nathaniel Hawthorne --

"Aspiring writers who enjoyed Gotham Writers' Workshop's Writing Fiction will find this anthology an invaluable source of inspiration and insight. This gallery of stories presents diverse examples of all the elements of fiction craft and demonstrates how writers seamlessly sew these elements into unforgettable tales ... As a bonus, the anthology includes original interviews with T.C. Boye, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Hannah Tinti, in which they illuminate the process of creating a short story."--Page 4 of cover.

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Short stories.
Short stories, American.

PN6120.2.S814.G684 2004