Titles selected by John Updike from the 1915 through 1998 editions of The best American short stories series.

Zelig /Benjamin Rosenblatt -- Little selves / Mary Lerner -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- Golden honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- Killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Resurrection of a life / William Saroyan -- Christmas gift / Robert Penn Warren -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- Hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Peach stone / Paul Horgan -- "That in Aleppo once..." / Vladimir Nabokov -- Interior castle / Jean Stafford -- Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn -- Second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Farmer's children / Elizabeth Bishop -- Death of a favorite / J.F. Powers -- Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin / Tennessee Williams -- Country husband / John Cheever -- Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor -- Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin -- German refugee / Bernard Malamud -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- Key / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Cty of churches / Donald Barthelme -- How to win / Rosellen speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Silver dish / Saul Bellow -- Gesturing / John Updike -- Shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Where I'm calling from / Raymond Carver -- Janus / Ann Beattie -- Way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Meneseteung / Alice Munro -- You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore -- I want to live ! / Thom Jones -- In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark -- Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell -- Birthmates / Gish Jen -- Soon / Pam Durban -- Half-skinned steer / Annie Proulx.