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03796aam a2200349 a 4500 001 A7388CAE72D811EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221203010154 008 091228s2011 nyua 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009053943 020 $a 0195395654 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780195395655 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)497884570 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d INU $d MIX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3373 $b .O52 2011 082 00 $a 808.3/1 $2 22 245 00 $a On writing short stories / $c edited by Tom Bailey ; [with a foreword by Tobias Wolff] 250 $a 2nd ed. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2011. 300 $a xix, 432 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 505 00 $a pt. 1 $t Eveline / $t What Makes a Short Story? / $r James Joyce. $t Reading as a Writer: The Artist as Craftsman / $r Joyce Carol Oates -- $t Character, Plot, Setting and Time, Metaphor, and Voice / $r Tom Bailey -- $t The Voice of Desire: Character -- $t The "Why?" Behind the Power of Plot: Shaping the Short Story -- $t The Lesser Angels of Fiction: Setting and Time -- $t "The Connectedness of All Living Things": Metaphor -- $t The Writer's Signature: Voice -- $t The Writer's Workshop / $r Frank Conroy -- $t Whose Story Is It? The Anonymous Workshop / $r Antonya Nelson -- $t After the Workshop: Transitional Drafts / $r Robert Boswell -- $t The Habit of Writing / $r Andre Dubus -- $t Why Write? Taking on the World / $r Robert Coles -- $t Publishers and Publishing / $r C. Michael Curtis -- $g pt. 2 $t Short Stories -- $t The String / $r Guy De Maupassant -- $t The Lady with the Pet Dog / $r Anton Chekhov -- $t Eveline / $r James Joyce. 505 00 $t Bullet in the Brain / $r Tobias Wolff. $t Hills Like White Elephants / $r Ernest Hemingway -- $t I Stand Here Ironing / $r Tillie Olsen -- $t A Rose for Emily / $r William Faulkner -- $t The Chrysanthemums / $r John Steinbeck -- $t The Shawl / $r Cynthia Ozick -- $t Everything That Rises Must Converge / $r Flannery O'Connor -- $t A & P / $r John Updike -- $t Happy Endings / $r Margaret Atwood -- $t Heat / $r Joyce Carol Oates -- $t Cathedral / $r Raymond Carver -- $t North Light -- A Recollection in the Present Tense / $r Mark Helprin -- $t From Black Tickets: Wedding Picture; The Powder of the Angels, and I'm Yours; Stripper; Cheers / $r Jayne Anne Phillips -- $t Wickedness / $r Ron Hansen -- $t Braids / $r David Leavitt -- $t A Temporary Matter / $r Jhumpa Lahiri -- $t Alaska / $r Tom Franklin -- $t Nilda / $r Junot Diaz -- $t The Fireman / $r Rick Bass -- $t Snow Dreams / $r Tom Bailey -- $t The Payoff / $r Susan Perabo -- $t The Darkness of Love / $r Robert Boswell -- $t A Father's Story / $r Andre Dubus -- $t Dick / $r Antonya Nelson -- $t Brownies / $r ZZ Packer -- $t Lust / $r Susan Minot -- $t Bullet in the Brain / $r Tobias Wolff. 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a On Writing Short Stories, Second Edition, explores the art and craft of writing short fiction by bringing together nine original essays by professional writers and thirty-three examples of short fiction. The first section features original essays by well-known authors--including Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus--that guide students through the process of writing. Focusing on the characteristics and craft of the short story and its writer, these essays take students from the workshopping process all the way through to the experience of working with agents and publishers. The second part of the text is an anthology of stories--many referred to in the essays--that give students dynamic examples of technique brought to life. 650 0 $a Short story $x Authorship. 650 0 $a Short story $x Technique. 700 1 $a Bailey, Tom, $d 1961- 700 1 $a Wolff, Tobias, $d 1945- 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214051749.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7388CAE72D811EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search