From the Book - First edition
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The piazza / Herman Melville --
Daisy Miller / Henry James --
Souls belated / Edith Wharton --
Coming, Aphrodite! / Willa Cather --
Up in Michigan / Ernest Hemingway --
The sensible thing / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
A telephone call / Dorothy Parker --
How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele --
The idyll of Miss Sarah Brown / Damon Runyon --
Imagine kissing Pete / John O'Hara --
The Maltese falcon. If they hang you / Dashiell Hammett --
Lila the werewolf / Peter Beagle --
No place for you, my love / Eudora Welty --
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud --
The pot of gold / John Cheever --
Here come the Maples / John Updike --
The Spinoza of Market Street / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The ballad of the sad caf♭ / Carson McCullers --
Texasville / Larry McMurtry --
St. George / Gail Godwin --
Innocence / Harold Brodkey --
The Pacific / Mark Helprin --
Elena, unfaithful / Gloria Kurian Broder --
The consolation of philosophy / Nicholas Delbanco --
Bluebeard's second wife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffe --
Dating your mom / Ian Frazier --
Residents and transients / Bobbie Ann Mason --
His own where / June Jordan --
An interest in life / Grace Paley
