JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

• Introduction - Jackson R. Bryer"The Fourth Alarm" by John Cheever - Lee K. Abbott"A Father's Story" by Andre Dubus - Elliot Ackerman"Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams - Julia Alvarez"Leaving the Colonel" by Molly Giles - Rilla Askew"A Cautionary Tale" by Deborah Eisenberg - Andrea Barrett"The Wounded Soldier" by George Garrett - Richard Bausch"Consolation" by Richard Bausch - Ann Beattie"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty - Doris Betts"How Can I Tell You?" by John O'Hara - Frederick Busch"Triumph Over the Grave" by Denis Johnson - Maud Casey"No One's a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent - Alan Cheuse"Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" by Gina Berriault - Kate Christensen"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver - Susan Coll"The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud - Nicholas Delbanco"Dare's Gift" by Ellen Glasgow - R. H. W. Dillard"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien - Ellen Douglas"In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway - Andre Dubus"Like Life" by Lorrie Moore - Pamela Erens"Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom's Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor - A. R. Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravleff

Insightful and personal (but not academic), these essays should be warmly welcomed by any fan of short fiction.

JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

• Introduction - Jackson R. Bryer"The Fourth Alarm" by John Cheever - Lee K. Abbott"A Father's Story" by Andre Dubus - Elliot Ackerman"Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams - Julia Alvarez"Leaving the Colonel" by Molly Giles - Rilla Askew"A Cautionary Tale" by Deborah Eisenberg - Andrea Barrett"The Wounded Soldier" by George Garrett - Richard Bausch"Consolation" by Richard Bausch - Ann Beattie"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty - Doris Betts"How Can I Tell You?" by John O'Hara - Frederick Busch"Triumph Over the Grave" by Denis Johnson - Maud Casey"No One's a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent - Alan Cheuse"Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" by Gina Berriault - Kate Christensen"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver - Susan Coll"The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud - Nicholas Delbanco"Dare's Gift" by Ellen Glasgow - R. H. W. Dillard"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien - Ellen Douglas"In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway - Andre Dubus"Like Life" by Lorrie Moore - Pamela Erens"Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom's Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor - A. R. Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravleff

Insightful and personal (but not academic), these essays should be warmly welcomed by any fan of short fiction.

JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

• Introduction - Jackson R. Bryer"The Fourth Alarm" by John Cheever - Lee K. Abbott"A Father's Story" by Andre Dubus - Elliot Ackerman"Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams - Julia Alvarez"Leaving the Colonel" by Molly Giles - Rilla Askew"A Cautionary Tale" by Deborah Eisenberg - Andrea Barrett"The Wounded Soldier" by George Garrett - Richard Bausch"Consolation" by Richard Bausch - Ann Beattie"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty - Doris Betts"How Can I Tell You?" by John O'Hara - Frederick Busch"Triumph Over the Grave" by Denis Johnson - Maud Casey"No One's a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent - Alan Cheuse"Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" by Gina Berriault - Kate Christensen"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver - Susan Coll"The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud - Nicholas Delbanco"Dare's Gift" by Ellen Glasgow - R. H. W. Dillard"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien - Ellen Douglas"In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway - Andre Dubus"Like Life" by Lorrie Moore - Pamela Erens"Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" by William Goyen - George Garrett"The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James - William H. Gass"Sur" by Ursula Le Guin - Molly Giles"FRAGO" by Phil Klay - Julia Glass"My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman - Herbert Gold"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter - Jack Greer"The Bridegroom's Body" by Kay Boyle - Doris Grumbach"The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov - Olga Grushin"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor - A. R. Gurney"Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade - Jane Hamilton"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Edmund Keeley"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz - Joyce Kornblatt"Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley - Beverly Lowry"Flight" by John Updike - Jill McCorkle"A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow - Alice McDermott"Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison - Clarence Major"Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes - Edward Kelsey Moore"Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright - Sabina Murray"Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen - Howard Norman"Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek - Leslie Pietrzyk"The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass - E. Annie Proulx"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville - Joanna Scott"Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones - Rion Amilcar Scott"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber - Mary Lee Settle"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin - Joan Silber"The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger - Elizabeth Spencer"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid - Diana Wagman"Fatherland: A Short Story" by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Kao Kalia Yang"The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz - Mako Yoshikawa"Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman - Mary Kay Zuravleff

Insightful and personal (but not academic), these essays should be warmly welcomed by any fan of short fiction.