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Coover in 2009
BornFebruary 4, 1932 (age 88)
Charles City, Iowa, United States
OccupationWriter
Alma materSouthern Illinois University Carbondale
Indiana University (B.A.)
University of Chicago (M.A.)
Period1960s–present
GenreShort story, novel
SpouseMaría del Pilar Sans Mallafré (1959–present)
Children

Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University.[1] He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.

Background[edit]

Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa.[2] He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1953,[3] then served in the United States Navy. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. In 1968, he signed the 'Writers and Editors War Tax Protest' pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[4] Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. He taught at Brown University from 1981 to 2012.[5][6][7]

Coover's wife is the noted needlepoint artist Pilar Sans Coover.[8][9][10]They have three children, including Sara Caldwell.[11]

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Literary career[edit]

Coover's first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult. His second book, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., deals with the role of the creator. The eponymous Waugh, a shy, lonely accountant, creates a baseball game in which rolls of the dice determine every play, and dreams up players to attach those results to.

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Wardrip-Fruin, Montfort -The New Media Reader.pdf - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book online for free. The Magic Poker Robert Coover July 1 1969. View Article Pages. We strive to present a reader-friendly digital text version of each story. While errors in automatic. Metafiction, however, became particularly prominent in the 1960s, with authors and works such as John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, Robert Coover's 'The Babysitter' and 'The Magic Poker', Kurt.

Coover's best-known work, The Public Burning, deals with the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in terms that have been called magic realism. Half of the book is devoted to the mythic hero Uncle Sam of tall tales, dealing with the equally fantastic Phantom, who represents international Communism. The alternate chapters portray the efforts of Richard Nixon to stage the execution of the Rosenbergs as a public event in Times Square.

A later novella, Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears offers an alternate Nixon, one who is devoted to football and sex with the same doggedness with which he pursued political success in this reality. The theme anthology A Night at the Movies includes the story 'You Must Remember This', a piece about Casablanca that features an explicit description of what Rick and Ilsa did when the camera wasn't on them. Pinocchio in Venice returns to mythical themes.

Coover demonstrating the 'CaveWriting' software

Coover is one of the founders of the Electronic Literature Organization. In 1987 he was the winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story.

Bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • The Origin of the Brunists (1966)
  • The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968)
  • The Public Burning (1977)
  • Gerald's Party (1986)
  • Pinocchio in Venice (1991)
  • John's Wife (1996)
  • Ghost Town (1998)
  • The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Director's Cut (2002)
  • Noir (2010)
  • The Brunist Day of Wrath (2014)
  • Huck Out West (2017)

Short fiction[edit]

Novellas

  • A Political Fable (1968)
  • Spanking the Maid (1982)
  • Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears (1987)
  • Dr. Chen's Amazing Adventure (1991)
  • Briar Rose (1996)
  • The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) (2002)
  • Stepmother (2004)
  • The Cat in the Hat for President (2018)[12]

Collections

  • Pricksongs & Descants (1969)
  • In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters (1983)
  • A Child Again (2005)
  • Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (2018)[13]

Stories

StoryOriginally published inYear
'The Case of the Severed Hand'Harper's Magazine2008
'White-Bread Jesus'Harper's Magazine2008
'An Encounter'Fortnightly Review2010
'The Old Man'Fortnightly Review2011
'Going for a Beer'The New Yorker2011
'Matinée'The New Yorker2011
'The Goldilocks Variations'The American Reader2013
'The Colonels Daughter'The New Yorker2013
'The Frog Prince'The New Yorker2014
'The Waitress'The New Yorker2014
'The Crabapple Tree'The New Yorker2015
'Invasion of the Martians'The New Yorker2016
'The Hanging of the Schoolmarm'The New Yorker2016
'The Boss'The New Yorker2017
'Treatments'The New Yorker2018
'The Enchanted Prince'Evergreen Review2018
'Citizen PunchThe New Yorker2019

Plays[edit]

  • The Kid (1970)
  • Love Scene (1971)
  • Rip Awake (1972)
  • A Theological Position (1972)

Other[edit]

  • A Night at the Movies or, You Must Remember This (1987) (themed anthology)
  • 'The End of Books'. The New York Times. June 21, 1992. (essay)

Awards and honors[edit]

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  • 1967 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel for The Origin of the Brunists
  • 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story

William Faulkner, Brandeis University, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment of the Arts, Rea Lifetime Short Story, Rhode Island Governor's Arts, Pell, and Clifton Fadiman Awards, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Lannan Foundation, and DAAD fellowships[14]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Literary Arts'. Brown University.
  2. ^Evenson, Brian (2003). Understanding Robert Coover. University of South Carolina Press. p. 1. ISBN978-1570034824.
  3. ^Stengel, Wayne B. (2001). 'Robert Coover'. In Fallon, Erin; Feddersen, R.C.; Kurtzleben, James; Lee, Maurice A.; Rochette-Crawley, Susan (eds.). A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English. Routledge. pp. 118–32. ISBN1-57958-353-9.
  4. ^'Writers and Editors War Tax Protest' January 30, 1968, New York Post
  5. ^'Unspeakable Practices V: Celebrating the Life and Work of Robert Coover'. The Providence Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07.
  6. ^'Unspeakable Practices V: Festival Bios'. Brown University.
  7. ^'Unspeakable Practices V: Celebrating Robert Coover'. Brown University.
  8. ^Born María del Pilar Sans Mallafré
  9. ^'Pilar Sans Coover'.
  10. ^'Contemporary Midwest Writers Series, Nos. 1,2 Author(s): Franklyn Alexander, Robert Bly, Robert Coover and Camille Blachowicz'. The Great Lakes Review. 3 (1): 66–73. Summer 1976. JSTOR41337445.
  11. ^Current Biography Yearbook 1991, volume 52. H. W. Wilson. 1992. p. 159.
  12. ^https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cat-hat-president-robert-coover/
  13. ^http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294994511
  14. ^https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/faculty/robert-coover/robert-coover

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Coover.
  • 'Robert Coover'. Providencephoenix.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-08-19.– Interview
  • Robert Coover on IMDb
  • Rettberg, Scott. 'A History of the Future of Narrative: Robert Coover on Vimeo'. Vimeo.com. Retrieved 2011-08-19.– Novelist Robert Coover's keynote address at the Electronic Literature in Europe seminar (elitineurope.net), September 13, 2008. Introduced by Scott Rettberg. Videography by Martin Arvebro.
  • Lydon, Christopher (2008-12-09). 'In the Obama Moment: Robert Coover'. Radio Open Source. Radio Interview
  • Bookworm Interviews (Audio) with Michael Silverblatt: December 2005, December 2005
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Coover&oldid=992893020'

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    American Short Stories (7th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Longman 0321080564, Dec 2001, $48.00, 704pp, tp)
    Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com.
    • Section One (1820-1890): Romanticism and Realism
    • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book 1819
    • Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr 1835
    • The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer Mar 1843
    • The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Philadelphia United States Saturday Post Aug 19 1843
    • The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844
    • Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly 1853
    • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Langhorne Clemens · ss 1867
    • The Outcasts of Poker Flat · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Jan 1869
    • 'Europe' · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Jun 1899
    • A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss 1886
    • The Passing of Grandison · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss
    • Section Two (1890-1920): Maturation and Seasoning
    • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890
    • The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss 1898
    • At the ’Cadian Ball · Kate Chopin · ss
    • The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss 1890
    • The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892
    • The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · William Sydney Porter · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1907
    • The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly Feb 13 1904
    • The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Nov 26 1898
    • Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s May 1905
    • To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902
    • Paper Pills · Sherwood Anderson · ss
    • A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week Mar 5 1917
    • Section Three (1920-1940): Modernist Voices
    • The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories Nov/Dec 1933
    • The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
    • The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story Aug 1933
    • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker Mar 18 1939
    • Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931
    • Barn Burning · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Jun 1939
    • Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition Aug 1927
    • The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Oct 1937
    • Thank You, Ma’m · Langston Hughes · ss 1958
    • Big Boy Leaves Home · Richard Wright · ss
    • Section Four (1940-1980): Tradition and Innovation
    • The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Aut 1939
    • The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Jul 18 1964
    • The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss The Paris Review Nov/Dec 1954
    • Samuel · Grace Paley · ss
    • Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957
    • Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Sewanee Review Spr 1964
    • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday 1973
    • The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Jun 17 1974
    • Cartoon · Robert Coover · ss
    • A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Jul 22 1961
    • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fll 1966
    • A Girl’s Story · Toni Cade Bambara · ss
    • Section Five (1980-present): Contemporary Diversity
    • Boxes · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker Feb 24 1986
    • Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker Oct 20 1980
    • Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss
    • Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48 1980
    • The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire Aug 1986
    • Gryphon · Charles Baxter · ss Epoch 1985
    • The Reach · Stephen King · ss Yankee Nov 1981, as “Do the Dead Sing?”
    • The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists · Lydia Davis · ss
    • De Rerum Natura · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss 1976
    • Cheers · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss
    • Pet Fly · Walter Mosley · nv The New Yorker Dec 13 1999
    • Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire Aug 1986
    • The Cariboo Café · Helena María Viramontes · ss 1985
    • Ciudad Juárez · Elizabeth Tallent · ss
    • Birthmates · Gish Jen · ss
    • This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire Jun 1993
    • This Blessed House · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss
    Western Romances ed. Peggy Simson Curry (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1969, pb) [Western]
    • Flower of the Mescalero · Eric Allen · vi Ranch Romances May #1 1954
    • Too Young, Too Far Away · Eric Allen · ss Ranch Romances Sep #1 1953
    • Run Out of Town · Todhunter Ballard · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 30 1950
    • Prisoners of the Snow · S. Omar Barker · ss The Progressive Farmer Feb 1962
    • The Wonderful Race at Rimrock · D. D. Beauchamp · ss Collier’s Aug 3 1945
    • The Bride Wore Spurs · Peggy Simson Curry · ss The American Magazine Oct 1953
    • Woman Trader · Hal G. Evarts · ss The American Magazine Feb 1951
    • Wilderness Gamble · Kenneth Fowler · ss The Toronto Star Weekly Jun 14 1947
    • Catalogue Woman · Barlow Meyers · ss Maclean’s May 1 1946
    • The Cache and the Convict · T. V. Olsen · ss Ranch Romances Sep #1 1956
    • Winchester Wedding · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Ranch Romances Jun 19 1953
    God: Stories ed. C. Michael Curtis (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-92971-7, Dec ’98, $14.00, 400pp, tp)
    Contents from Amazon.com.
    • Introduction · C. Michael Curtis · in
    • Exodus · James Baldwin · ss
    • Design · Richard Bausch · ss
    • A New Life · Mary Ward Brown · ss Atlantic Monthly Mar 1991
    • A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv 1983
    • Satan: Hijacker of a Planet · Louise Erdrich · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1997
    • Redemption · John Gardner · ss Atlantic Monthly 1977
    • The Knife · Brendan Gill · ss The New Yorker Mar 16 1940
    • God’s Typhoon · John Hersey · ss Atlantic Monthly Jan 1988
    • The Question of Rain · William Hoffman · ss 1978
    • Grace · James Joyce · nv
    • Idiots First · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary Dec 1961
    • The Retreat · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss Atlantic Monthly Jul 1982
    • Pictures of the Ice · Alice Munro · ss Atlantic Monthly Jan 1990
    • Parker’s Back · Flannery O’Connor · nv Esquire Apr 1965
    • Rosa · Cynthia Ozick · nv The New Yorker Mar 21 1983
    • The Pure in Heart · Peggy Payne · ss The Crescent Review 1986
    • The Rabbi in the Attic · Eileen Pollack · ss
    • Roof Work · Joe Ashby Porter · ss
    • Zeal · J. F. Powers · ss
    • Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth · nv The New Yorker Mar 14 1959
    • A Christian Education · Elizabeth Spencer · ss
    • Autumn Sunshine · William Trevor · nv The New Yorker Mar 10 1980
    • Made in Heaven · John Updike · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 1985
    • A Still Moment · Eudora Welty · ss The Wide Net, Harcourt 1943
    • The Missing Person · Tobias Wolff · ss Atlantic Monthly Feb 1983
    • Biographical Notes · [Misc.] · bg
    The Sound of Two Lip Disks Clacking ed. Ali Dada, and the 40 Thieves (Chicago, IL: The Press of the Third Mind 0-666271-341-8, 1988, $5.00, 135pp, tp)
    [RB]
    • 1 - 16 · The Paregoric Imperative · Bradley Lastname · ss *
    • 17 - 19 · Frisco Speen · G. Sutton Breiding · pm *
    • 20 - 52 · The Black Hand of the Raj · Patrick McGrath · ss Blood and Water, Simon & Schuster 1988
    • 54 - 59 · Rimbaud’s Parade: A New Translation · Brian Kuhr · ss *
    • 60 - 88 · Excerpt from The Trisexual · Gaston N. Price · ex *
    • 89 - 95 · Enjambment · Anon. · pm *
    • 96 -100 · The La Brie Cheese Pits · Bradley Lastname · ss *
    • 101 -111 · Plagues or Prosperity: Challenge to Management · Crad Kilodney · ss *
    • 112 -114 · The Ides of March · Jonathan Levant · pm *
    • 115 -135 · Letters from a Brazilian Ma(n)son · Anon. · ss *
    The Short Story: Plot Thickens ed. Arthur Daigon & Mimi Schmitt (Prentice-Hall 0-13-809764-X, 1977, 186pp, tp)
    There is an Activities page after each story.
    • 1 · Beginnings and Endings
    • 2 · The Father · Björnstjerne Björnson · ss Union Jack Aug 24 1882
    • 6 · Thank You, M’am · Langston Hughes · ss 1958
    • 10 · The Unuttered Warning · Eric Bengston · ss
    • 14 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953
    • 20 · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel García Márquez · ss Playboy Nov 1971
    • 27 · Yesterdays
    • 28 · 1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel · Richard Brautigan · ss
    • 32 · A Visit to Grandmother · William Melvin Kelley · ss
    • 39 · How Grandpa Came Into the Money · Else Zantnev · ss
    • 42 · Ancient Gentility · William Carlos Williams · ss
    • 44 · Time in Thy Flight · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Universe Jun/Jul 1953
    • 50 · Live and Learn
    • 51 · Señor Payroll · William E. Barrett · ss The Southwest Review Aut 1943
    • 55 · Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Knickerbocker Jan 1837, as “The Fountain of Youth”
    • 63 · Coyote 13 · Arturo Souto Alabarce; trans. by Harriet de Onis · ss
    • 67 · The Richer, the Poorer · Dorothy West · ss
    • 71 · Our Best and Our Worst
    • 72 · Epitaph for a Heel · William Fay · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 20 1962
    • 80 · The Apple Tree · Katherine Mansfield · ss Woman’s Home Companion
    • 84 · The Enemy · Pearl Buck · ss Harper’s 1943
    • 94 · Four Men and a Box · Leslie Gordon Barnard · ss This Week 1947
    • 99 · Insiders and Outsiders
    • 100 · The Lost Soul · Ben Hecht · ss
    • 104 · The Walls [People] · Zenna Henderson · ss Holding Wonder, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1971
    • 111 · Give Us This Day · Alice Reid · ss
    • 114 · Caged · Lloyd Eric Reeve · ss
    • 117 · Zoo · Edward D. Hoch · vi Fantastic Universe Jun 1958
    • 120 · Love Me/Love Me Not
    • 121 · The Lover and His Lass · James Thurber · ss
    • 123 · The Wooing of Ariadne · Harry Mark Petrakis · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 20 1960
    • 133 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The Four Million, Doubleday 1906
    • 137 · Feels Like Spring · Milton Kaplan · ss
    • 142 · Out of This World
    • 143 · The Boy Who Drew Cats · Lafcadio Hearn · ss 1898
    • 146 · Tularecito · John Steinbeck · ss
    • 153 · Where Angels Fear · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown Mar 1939
    • 159 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910
    • 164 · Tomorrows
    • 165 · The Business As Usual · Mack Reynolds · vi F&SF Jun 1952
    • 168 · The Wheel · John Wyndham · ss Startling Stories Jan 1952
    • 174 · Virtuoso · Herbert Goldstone · ss F&SF Feb 1953
    • 179 · Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction Jun 1958, as “But Who Can Replace a Man?”
    Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures ed. Edwidge Danticat (Beacon Press 0-807-06244-8, Oct 2000, $28.50, 304pp, hc)
    Contents from Amazon.com.
    • introduction · Edwidge Danticat · ss
    • No Countries but the Distance of the World · Nicholas Samaras · ss
    • The Toughest Indian in the World · Sherman Alexie · ss The New Yorker Jun 21 1999
    • Rope Burn · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · ss
    • Pissarro at Dusk · Derek Walcott · ss
    • Planting Sticks and Grinding Yucca: On Being a Translated Writer · Julia Alvarez · ar Zoetrope: All-Story Win 1999
    • From Senoritas in Love · Jaime Manrique · ss
    • Pet Fly · Walter Mosley · nv The New Yorker Dec 13 1999
    • The Volunteers · Chang-Rae Lee · ss The New Yorker Jun 21 1999
    • Ten Thousand in the Round · Lois-Ann Yamanaka · ss
    • My Grandmother’s Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head · Robert Antoni · ss
    • Family Album · Diane Thiel · ss
    • A Son in Shadow · Fred D’Aguiar · ss
    • Charisma: A Fiction · Ai · ss
    • Precious and Her Hair · Ifeona Fulani · ss
    • The End of Empire · Pico Iyer · ss
    • Three Keys · Lidia Torres · ss
    • Standing at the Crossroads · Bryant Keith Alexander · ss
    • Speak · Aimee Nezhukumatathil · ss
    • Death of the Cowboy · Larry McMurtry · ss
    • A Ride to the Wedding · Phebus Etienne · ss
    • Fathering Words · E. Ethelbert Miller · ss
    • My Middle Kingdom · Adrienne Su · ss
    • Oath Taking Opal · Palmer Adissa · ss
    • Walking · Kate Krautkramer · ss
    • Suffering · Kyoko Mori · ss
    • Contributors · [Misc.] · bg
    • Publications · [Misc.] · ms

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    Daughters Of Eve ed. T. A. Dardis (Berkley Books G-40, 1956, 35¢, 186pp, pb, cover by Maguire)
    Details supplied by Ken Johnson.
    • 5 · Dottie Makes an Honest Woman of Herself · Mary McCarthy · ss The Partisan Review Jan/Feb 1954
    • 24 · Elly · William Faulkner · ss Story Feb 1934
    • 39 · The Snake · John Steinbeck · ss The Monterey Beacon Jun 22 1935
    • 49 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1939
    • 63 · The Unfortunate Lover · Alberto Moravia; trans. by Bernard Wall · nv Modern Italian Short Stories, ed. Marc Slonim, Simon & Schuter 1954
    • 90 · Sounds of Earth · Edmund Schiddel · ss
    • 98 · Once · D. H. Lawrence · ss Love Among the Haystacks, Viking 1933
    • 108 · Torch Song · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker Oct 4 1947
    • 125 · The Kimono · H. E. Bates · nv Missing from Their Homes, ed. Anon., Hutchinson 1936
    • 142 · Neil MacAdam · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Ah, King, Heinemann 1933
    Nude Croquet ed. Thomas A. Dardis (Berkley Books G-97, 1958, 35¢, 155pp, pb, cover by Maguire)
    Details supplied by Ken Johnson.
    • 5 · Nude Croquet · Leslie A. Fiedler · nv Esquire Sep 1957
    • 40 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker Nov 20 1954
    • 67 · The Third Partner · Morris Philipson · ss New Directions Annual #16 1957
    • 75 · With Men It’s Different · Edward Newhouse · ss The New Yorker Oct 4 1941
    • 80 · The Force of Circumstance · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International Jan 1924
    • 107 · Bitter Honeymoon · Alberto Moravia; trans. by Frances Frenaye · nv The Partisan Review Nov/Dec 1952, as “Sunny Honeymoon”
    • 134 · (The) Golden Land · William Faulkner · ss The American Mercury May 1935
    This Is My Body ed. Thomas A. Dardis (Berkley Books G-68, 1957, 35¢, 188pp, pb, cover by Maguire)
    Details supplied by Ken Johnson.
    • 5 · Two Prostitutes · Alberto Moravia; trans. by Frances Frenaye · nv The Partisan Review May/Jun 1950
    • 35 · Bessie Cotter · Wallace Smith · ex Crown 1934
    • 59 · Dumb Kid · Jerome Weidman · ss College Humor Mar 1937
    • 67 · In Port · Guy de Maupassant; trans. by Ernest Boyd · ss The Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 16, Knopf 1926
    • 79 · Clyde · James T. Farrell · ss Calico Shoes, Vanguard 1934
    • 99 · The Facts of Life · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan Apr 1939
    • 125 · Two Legs for the Two of Us · James Jones · ss Esquire Sep 1951
    • 137 · Sunday Is the Day You Rest · John Upton Terrell · na Coward-McCann 1939

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    The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, the Best of 1999 ed. Larry Dark (Doubleday 0-385-49358-4, Sep ’99, $11.95, 443pp, tp)
    • Introduction · Larry Dark · in
    • A Nurse’s Story · Peter Baida · ss The Gettysburg Review v13 #3 1998
    • Merry-Go-Sorry · Cary Holladay · ss Alaska Quarterly Review Spr/Sum 1998
    • Save the Reaper · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker Jun 22&29 1998
    • The Depressed Person · David Foster Wallace · ss Harper’s Jan 1998
    • Cataract · Pam Houston · ss Cutbank #50 1998
    • Sea Oak · George Saunders · nv The New Yorker Dec 28 1998-Jan 4 ’99
    • Interpreter of Maladies · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss AGNI Review #47 1998
    • Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree · Gerald Reilly · ss The Gettysburg Review v11 #3 1998
    • Mister Brother · Michael Cunningham · ss DoubleTake #14 1998
    • Moon · Chaim Potok · ss Image #19 1998
    • Burning · Robert Schirmer · ss Fiction v15 #1 1998
    • Watching Girls Play · W. D. Wetherell · ss Georgia Review v52 #2 1998
    • Afterbirth · Sheila Schwartz · ss Ploughshares v24 2&3
    • Son of the Wolfman · Michael Chabon · ss Harper’s Dec 1998
    • Miracle Boy · Pinckney Benedict · ss Esquire Dec 1998
    • The Underground Gardens · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss The New Yorker May 25 1998
    • Fork Used in Eating Reverend Baker · Kiana Davenport · ss Story Spr 1998
    • Sign · Charlotte Forbes · ss New Orleans Review v24 #1 1998
    • A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga · Julia Whitty · ss Harper’s Jun 1998
    • The Mud Below · Annie Proulx · ss The New Yorker Jun 22 1998
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