Banks, Russell, (1940- )
--Plains of Abraham, July, 1999.
--Lobster Night,
--Djinn, June, 2000. *

Barth, John, (1930- )
--The Remobilization of Jacob Horner, July, 1958.

Borges, Jorge Luis, (1899-1986)
--The Widow Ching -- Pirate, August, 1972. (translated by Andrew Hurley)

Bourjaily, Vance, ()
--The Amish Farmer, 1980. American Short Story Masterpieces

Boyle, T. Coraghessan, (1948- )
--Heart of a Champion, 1974.

Brodkey, Harold, (1930-1996)
--Verona: A Young Woman Speaks, July, 1977. ** Best of the Century; American Short Story Masterpieces
--His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft, August, 1975.

Buchanan, Edna,
--Rat Boy, June, 2002.

Capote, Truman, (1924-1984)
--Among the Paths to Eden, July, 1960.

Carlson, Ron, (1947- )
--Towel Season, May, 1998.

Carver, Raymond, (1938-1988)
--Neighbors, June, 1971.

Cheever, John, (1912-1982)
--The Death of Justina, November, 1960.

DeLillo, Don, (1936- )
--In the Men's Room of the Sixteenth Century, December, 1971.

Dexter, Pete, (1943- )
--The Jeweler, April, 2002. (author's first publication)

Dos Passos, John, (1896-1970)
--The Celebrity, August, 1935.

Earley, Tony, (1961- )
--Hardy in the Evening, February, 1998.
--Morning in America, July, 1998.

Elkin, Stanley, (1930-1995)
--I Look Out for Ed Wolfe, September, 1962.

Erdrich, Louise, (1954- )
--Fleur, August, 1986. O. Henry Award: First Prize

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (1896-1940)
--A Man in the Way, February, 1940.

Ford, Richard, (1944- )
--Rock Springs, February, 1982. American Short Story Masterpieces

Gardner, John, (1933-1982)
--The Song of Grendel, October, 1971.

Hannah, Barry, (1942- )
--Behold the Husband in His Perfect Agony, July, 1976.
--Water Liars, 1978. American Short Story Masterpieces

Hemingway, Ernest, (1899-1961)
--The Snows of Kilimanjaro, August, 1936.

Hemon, Aleksandar, (1964- )
--The Deep Sleep, November, 2000.

Johnson, Denis, (1949- )
--The Bullet's Flight, March, 1989.

Julavits, Heidi, (1968- )
--Marry the One Who Gets There First: Outtakes from the Sheidegger-Krupnik Wedding Album, April, 1998. Best American Short Stories

Mailer, Norman, (1923- )
--The Language of Men, April, 1953.

Malamud, Bernard,
--My Son the Murderer, November, 1968. *

McCarthy, Cormac, (1933- )
--All the Pretty Horses, March, 1992. (excerpt)

McGuane, Thomas, (1939- )
--Cutting Losses, October, 1992.

Means, David, (1961- )
--Lightning Man, April, 2001.

Michaels, Leonard,
--Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz, March, 1970. *

Miller, Arthur, (1915- )
--The Misfits, October, 1957.

Nabokov, Vladimir, (1899-1977)
--The Visit to the Museum, March, 1967.

Nelson, Antonya, (1961- )
--Downstream, May, 1989.

Nolan, Jonathan, (1976- )
--Memento Mori, March, 2001. (author's first publication) O. Henry Award

O'Brien, Tim, (1946- )
--The Things They Carried, August, 1986. National Magazine Award, Best of the Century

O'Connor, Flannery, (1925-1964)
--Parker's Back, April, 1965.

Phillips, Jane, (1952- )
--Bess, August, 1984.

Price, Reynolds,
--Waiting at Dachau, April, 1970. *

Roth, Philip, (1933- )
--A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis, April, 1967.

Russo, Richard, (1949- )
--Monhegan Light, August, 2001.

Scott, Joanna, (1960- )
--The Wish, February, 2000.

Sedaris, David,
--Big Boy, November, 1999. (short short)

Shaw, Irwin, (1913-1984)
--The Eighty-Yard Run, January, 1941.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, (1904-1991)
--The Beggar Said So, May, 1961.

Steinbeck, John, (1902-1968)
--The Lonesome Vigilante, October, 1936.

Stone, Robert, (1937- )
--Under the Pitons, July, 1996.

Updike, John, (1932- )
--After the Storm, January, 1963.

Wallace, David Foster, (1962- )
--Adult World (I), July, 1998.
--Adult World (II), July, 1998.
--Incarnations of Burned Children, November, 2000.

Williams, Joy, (1944- )
--The Last Generation, April, 1989.

Wolff, Tobias, (1945- )
--Soldier's Joy, October, 1985.
--Smorgasbord, 1987.

Yates, Richard, (1926-1992)
--The B.A.R. Man, December, 1957.