"As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion"--Dust jacket flap.

Foreword -- Sudden and Unusual Things Have Happened: Unpublished and Uncollected Short Fiction -- I Would Rather Write Than Do Anything Else: Essays and Reviews -- When This War is Over: Early Short Stories -- Somehow Things Haven't Turned Out the Way We Expected: Humor and Family -- I'd Like to See You Get Out of That Sentence: About the Craft of Writing -- Afterword.