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• xiii • Introduction: Why We Read, Why We Write • essay by Joyce Carol Oates
• 11 • The Sirens • (1947) • essay by Franz Kafka (trans. of Die Sirenen 1937)
• 20 • Father's Last Escape • (1978) • short story by Bruno Schulz (trans. of Ostatnia ucieczka ojca 1937)
• 24 • I Used to Live Here Once • (1976) • short fiction by Jean Rhys
• 35 • Cities & the Dead • short fiction by Italo Calvino
• 37 • Continuous Cities • short fiction by Italo Calvino
• 50 • The Last Days of a Famous Mime • (1979) • short story by Peter Carey
• 57 • Death of the Right Fielder • short story by Stuart Dybek (variant of Death of a Right Fielder 1990)
• 60 • from Einstein's Dreams • short fiction by Alan Lightman
• 71 • Lethal • (1992) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 93 • The Judgment • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Das Urteil 1913)
• 106 • The Burning Baby • (1952) • short story by Dylan Thomas
• 183 • The Sisters • (1904) • short story by James Joyce
• 192 • The Sisters (1914) • short story by James Joyce
• 203 • Genesis 19 • short fiction by uncredited
• 206 • The Cave • (1994) • short story by Alicia Ostriker
• 209 • The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira • poem by Ovid
• 215 • Hercules, Deianira, Nessus • (1994) • poem by C. K. Williams
• 218 • The Story of Daedalus and Icarus • poem by Ovid
• 221 • Fever • (1994) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 222 • Little Red-Cap • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 26] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of
  Rothkäppchen^?Rothkaeppchen
  1812) [as by Grimm's Fairy Tales]
• 225 • The Werewolf • (1977) • short story by Angela Carter
• 227 • Little Snow-White • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 53] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of
  Sneewittchen (Schneeweißchen)^?Sneewittchen (Schneeweisschen)
  1812) [as by Grimm's Fairy Tales]
• 235 • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs • (1971) • poem by Anne Sexton
• 246 • From The American Notebooks (1845) • essay by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 277 • Borges and I • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Borges y yo 1957)
• 300 • Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops • poem by Homer
• 311 • The Story of Actaeon • poem by Ovid
• 315 • Home Burial • (1915) • poem by Robert Frost
• 381 • The Flood • (1990) • short story by Joy Harjo
• 389 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 405 • The Man in the Black Suit • (1994) • short story by Stephen King
• 429 • Tickets, Please • non-genre • short story by D. H. Lawrence (variant of 'Tickets, Please!' 1919)
• 461 • A Temple of the Holy Ghost • non-genre • (1954) • short fiction by Flannery O'Connor
• 475 • The Balloon • (1966) • short story by Donald Barthelme
• 496 • The Man from Mars • non-genre • (1977) • novelette by Margaret Atwood
• 583 • I Dated Jane Austen • (1979) • short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• 602 • My Mother • (1983) • short story by Jamaica Kincaid
• 691 • Family • (1989) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 705 • Afterword: The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop • essay by Joyce Carol Oates