Contents:

• Publisher’s Note
• Introduction by Ann Beattie
• The Way We Live Now by Susan Sontag
• The Afterlife by John Updike
• The Prince by Craig Nova
• Favor by Elizabeth Tallent
• Kingdom Come by Mavis Gallant
• The Lover of Women by Sue Miller
• The Lie Detector by Madison Smartt Bell
• Circle of Prayer by Alice Munro
• Dreams of Distant Lives by Lee K. Abbott
• Men Under Water by Ralph Lombreglia
• Boxes by Raymond Carver
• The Tenant by Bharati Mukherjee
• The Blue Men by Joy Williams
• Private Debts/Public Holdings by Kent Haruf
• How I Found My Brother by Charles Baxter
• The Other Miller by Tobias Wolff
• Lady of Spain by Robert Taylor, Jr.
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story by Daniel Stern
• Milk by Ron Carlson
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien