Gotham Writers' Workshop fiction gallery :  exceptional short stories selected by New York's acclaimed creative writing school / 
edited by Alexander Steele and Thom Didato. 
 - 1st U.S. ed. 
 - New York :  Bloomsbury :  Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,  2004. 
 - 356 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1582344620 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004005432 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Short stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 6120.2  / .G68 2004