(1995-present)

Aberlado Diaz Alfaro	Santa Clo va a la Cuchilla
Woody Allen	The Kugelmass Episode, If the Impressionists were Dentists
Julia Alvarez	Switching to Santiclo
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano	El Zarco
Hans Christian Anderson	The Little Match Girl
Sherwood Anderson	The Other Woman
Maya Angelou	The First Day; Come, and Be My Baby; The Reunion;, Kwanzaa Pledge; Steady Going Up
Anonymous writings	After the Holidays, a Caution; Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Margaret Atwood	Weight
James Baldwin	Sonny’s Blues
Liz Balmaseda	Next Year in Havana
Nicola Barker	G-String
Andrea Barrett	The Littoral Zone
Bettina Barrett	Sleepdancer
Dave Barry	Sweeping Generalizations
Donald Barthelme	Some of Us Have Been Threatening Our Friend Colby; Chablis
Richard Bausch	Aren’t You Happy For Me?
Charles Baxter	Lake Stephen
Madison Smartt Bell	Pawnshop
Robert Benchley	Christmas Afternoon
Ambrose Bierce	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Amy Bloom	Silver Water; Faultlines
Roy Blount, Jr.	What to do on New Year’s Eve
Erma Bombeck	Motherhood - The Second Oldest Profession
Jorge Luis Borges	Juan Murana; El ethnographo
Andy Borowitz	Emily Dickinson, Jerk of Amherst
Carmen Boullosa	Los Totoles
Blanche McCrary Boyd	The Black Hand Girl
Kay Boyle	The Astronomer’s Wife
T. C. Boyle	Greasy Lake; Juliana Cloth; Beat; Chicxulub; The New Moon Party; The Champ; Zaptatos; Swept Away; Hands On; La Conchita
Robert Browning	The Last Duchess
Katharine Brush	Night Club
Pearl S. Buck	The Lovers
Saral Burdette	But I Can't Swim; My Pride and Prejudice
Frederick Busch	The World Began with Charlie Chan
Robert Olen Butler	Jealous Husband Returns as Parrot
Emilio Carballido	La Caja Vacia
Italo Calvino	The Naked Bosom
Ethan Canin	Emperor of the Air
Truman Capote	an excerpt from A Christmas Story; Dazzle
Ron Carlson	The H Street Sledding Record, The Governor's Ball, A Kind of Flying, Bigfoot Stole My Wife, I Am Bigfoot, Gary Garrison's Wedding Vows
Raymond Carver	Cathedral
Ana Castillo	Loverboys
Anton Chekhov	A Woman Without Prejudices; He Quarreled with his Wife
John Cheever	The Death of Justina;  The Fourth Alarm
Susan Chiavelli	Winter Oranges; Maybe it Happened This Way
Alice Childress	Merry Christmas, Marge!
Kate Chopin	The Storm; The Story of an Hour
Agatha Christie	The Tuesday Night Club
Sandra Cisneros	Woman Hollering Creek; Good Hot Dogs; Salvador Late or Early; My Tocaya; La Casa en Mango Street
John Collier	The Chaser
Billy Collins	The Many Faces of Jazz
Bill Cosby	excerpts from Fatherhood
Noel Coward	Stop Me If You‘ve Heard It
Daryl Cumber Dance	Notice the Mistletoe
Edwidge Danticat	Water Child
Julia Darling	The Street;  Wave
Lydia Davis	The Mothers
Fran Davis	Especially Babe
Hector de Alva	Asi que que?; Los Moles; Chilele y Chalechangue; El Martino; Don Juvencio y Cirpriana
Honore de Balzac	A Passion in the Desert
Guy de Maupassant	Moonlight; Mouche; The Idyll
Phillip DePoy	Christmas: The Job
Chitra Banerjee Divakauni	The Disappearance
Stephen Dixon	Change
Stephen Dobyns	Thelonious Monk
Emma Donoghue	Night Vision
Andre Dubus	At Night
Stuart Dybek	We Didn’t; Pet Milk
Geoff Dyer	Monk – an extract from But Beautiful
Nathan Englander	Reb Kringle
Louise Erdrich	Fleur; The Shawl
Laura Esquivel	Like Water for Chocolate
Jeffrey Eugenides	The Burning of Smyrna
Nancy J. Fairley	Anna Makes a Deal
William Faulkner	A Rose for Emily
Fannie Flagg	Missouri Power & Light – an extract from Standing in the Rainbow
Ian Frazier	Just A Country Boy, No. Please, No
Bruce Jay Friedman	When You're Excused, You're Excused
Brian Friel	The Death of a Scientific Humanist
Carlos Fuentes	El dios de las Moscas; La Muerte de Arternio Cruz
Mavis Gallant	In Transit
Tim Gautreaux	The Courtship of Merlin LeBlanc
Dagoberto Gilb	The Prize
Molly Giles	The Writers’ Model
Ellen Gilchrist	A Southern Christmas
Guillermo Gomez-Pena	The Self Deportation Project
Adam Gopnik	The Rules of the Sport
Nadine Gordimer	The Rain Queen
Allan Gurganus	Nativity, Caucasian
Sue Grafton	Kinsey Millhone; A Poison That leaves No Trace
Graham Greene	A Shocking Accident
Judith Guest	Dermot's Dream
Dashiell Hammett	The Second-Story Angel
Barry Hannah	A Creature in the Bay of St. Louis
Jean Harfenist	The Road Out of Acorn Lake
Michael S. Harper	Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Ernest Hemingway	Hills Like White Elephants
Amy Hempel	The Children’s Party, In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried
Joe Henry	Lime Creek Christmas
Augustus M. Hodges	The Blue and The Gray;, The Trip Back
Janette Turner Hospital	The Baroque Ensemble
Pam Houston	How To Talk To A Hunter; Something Sweet and Wild
Guillermo Hudson	Allá Lejos y Hace Tiempo
Langston Hughes	Christmas Song; Who’s Passing for Who?
Josephine Humphreys	Bells
Catherine Ryan Hyde	Alice Needs This
David Ives	Sure Thing
Charles Johnson	Exchange Value
James Joyce	Calypso chapter of Ulysses
David Michael Kaplan	Love, Your Only Mother
Karen Karbo	Why I hate that My Mother Was Right
Karen Kasaba	Views Views Views
Garrison Keillor	We Are Still Married, The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus
Marjorie Kemper	God’s Goodness
Jack Kerouac	Jazz of the Beat Generation
Jamaica Kincaid	Girl
Barbara Kingsolver	Homeland
W.P. Kinsella	Feet of Clay
Caroline Koeppel	Lessons in Flexibility
Charles Krauthammer	Of Dogs and Men
Philip Larkin	For Sidney Bechet
Stephen Leacock	Gertrude the Governess
Fran Lebowitz	Children: Pro or Con?
Diane Leslie	A Life of Crime
Alan Lightman	Always Ask for Cash
Penelope Lively	Loved Ones: A Christmas Fairy Tale; A Christmas Card to one and All
Guadalupe Loaeza	Carta de Amor
Jack London	To Build a Fire
David Long	Talons
Edwin Augustin Lozada	Sueños Anonimos
John F. Luca	The Impala; A Taste of Brandy
Bernard Malamud	Spring Rain
Eona Macnicol	The Man in the Lochan
Katherine Mansfield	The Canary; The Garden Party
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	La mujer que llegaba a las seis;, Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane; Death Constant Beyond Love; Un Señor muy Viejo con unas alas enormes
Don Marquis	Mehitabel was once Cleopatra, Mehitabel and her Kittens
Angeles Mastretta	Mujeres de Ojos Grandes
Ana Maria Matute	Pecado de Omision
W. Somerset Maugham	The Sanitarium
Seumas MacManus	The Day of the Scholars
Stephen McCauley	The Whole Truth
CarsonMcCullers	A Tree*A Rock*A Cloud
Gregory Mcdonald	The Nine Best Movies, The Trial
Stuart McLean	Christmas Presents; Dave Cooks the Turkey
Terry McMillan	Ma, Dear
Thomas Meehan	Yma Dream
Arcadio Chacon Mendoza	El Pequeno Error
Steven Millhauser	The Visit
Clement Clarke Moore	Twas the Night Before Christmas
Lorrie Moore	Willing; Starving Again
Alberto Moravia	Silly Old Fool
Walter Mosley	The Thief
Alice Munro	Wild Swans
Pablo Neruda	Confieso que he Vivido
Lucia Nevai	Thanksgiving with Dorrie and Heck; Silent Retreat; Step Men
David Niven	Excerpts from Bring on the Empty Horses
Edna O’Brien	Long Distance; The Plan
Tim O’Brien	The Things That They Carried
Flannery O’Connor	Everything That Rises Must Converge
Frank O’Connor	My Oedipus Complex
O. Henry	The Gift of the Magi; The Ransom of Red Chief, Witches' Loaves, A Retrieved Reformation
Bert O. States	Girl of My Dreams
Tillie Olson	I Stand Here Ironing
Cynthia Ozick	The Shawl
Nancy Huddleston Packer	Mosquitoes
Grace Paley	The Loudest Voice
Barbara Parker Robinson	Poor Me
Dorothy Parker	I Live On Your Visits
Octavio Paz	El Laberinto de la Soledad
Joyce Perrin	Nights
Virgilio Pinera	La Caida
Robert Pinsky	Salt Water Jews
Harold Pinter	Mac
Edgar Allen Poe	The Tell-Tale Heart
Elena Poniatowska	El recado; Luz y Luna, las lunitas
Padgett Powell	The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping
E. Annie Proulx	Heart Songs, The Half-Skinned Steer
Lesley Quinn	At a Loss for Words
Horacio Quiroga	Juan Darien
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo	Flute Players
Tomás Rivera	. . . y no se lo trago la tierra
Will Rogers	Selections from Will Rogers' America
Luis Romero	Aniversario
Leo Rosten	Mr. Kaplan and the Magi
Salvador Rueda	La venta del Pescado
Juan Rulfo	No oyes ladraa los perros
Salman Rushdie	Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies
Saki [H.H. Munro]	Tobermory, The Schartz-Matterklume Method
John Sayles	At the Anarchists Convention;  The 7 – 10 Split
David Schickler	The Smoker
Steven Schutzman	The Bank Robbery
Stephen Schwartz	Madagascar