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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:John Updike (Editor) John Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the result is a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" (Entertainment Weekly). Volume 1 of the audio edition features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors rea... more »ding from their own work.
v. 1. The other woman / Sherwood Anderson (read by John Updike) --
Theft / Katherine Anne Porter (read by Jill McCorkle) --
Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald (read by George Plimpton) --
The interior castle / Jean Stafford (read by Mary Gordon) --
Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson (read by the author) --
The German refugee / Bernard Malamud (read by Alan Cheuse) --
The shawl / Cynthia Ozick (read by the author) --
How to win / Rosellen Brown (read by the author) --
I want to live! / Thom Jones (read by the author) --
Birthmates / Gish Jen (read by the author) --
v. 2. Wild plums / by Grace Stone Coates (read by Ashley Warlick) --
Here we are / by Dorothy Parker (read by Meg Wolitzer) --
Christmas gift / by Robert Penn Warren (read by Christopher Tilghman) --
The hitch-hikers / by Eudora Welty (read by Jill McCorkle) --
The second tree from the corner / by E.B. White (read by Donald Hall) --
Gesturing / by John Updike (read by John Updike) --
A city of churches / by Donald Barthelme (read by Rick Moody) --
The things they carried / by Tim O'Brien (read by Tim O'Brien) --
Where I'm calling from / by Raymond Carver (read by Charles Baxter) --
You're ugly, too / by Lorrie Moore (read by Lorrie Moore) --
Proper library / by Carolyn Ferrell (read by Carolyn Ferrell)
Read by John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, George Plimpton, Rosellen Brown, and others. 8 audiocassettes (approximately 630 min.)« less