The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition

Part One: Stories -- Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace -- Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven -- Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance -- Sherwood Anderson / Hands -- Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings -- Isaac Babel / My First Goose -- James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson -- Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat -- Lynda Barry / San Francisco [graphic story] -- Donald Barthelme / At the Tolstoy Museum -- Ann Beattie / Janus -- Alison Bechdel / From Fun Home: "Old Father, Old Artificer" [graphic story] -- Ambrose Bierce / Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Roberto Bolano / Jim -- Jorge Luis Borges / The South -- Tadeusz Borowski / This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- T.