Gotham Writers' Workshop fiction gallery : exceptional short stories selected by New York's acclaimed creative writing school / edited by Alexander Steele and Thom Didato. [print]

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

"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.

Includes bibliographies and index.