Master of Fine Arts

Recommended Short Story Collections

 

Alice Adams, The Last Lovely City  
Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World 
Woody Allen, Side Effects 
Max Apple, The Oranging of America 
Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls and Other Stories 
Toni Cade Bambara, Gorilla, My Love 
John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse 
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories 
Richard Bausch, The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch 
Charles Baxter, Through the Safety Net 
Ann Beattie, Secrets and Surprises 
Madison Smartt Bell, Barking Man
Jon Billman, When We Were Wolves 
Amy Bloom, Come to Me 
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America 
Raymond Carver, Cathedral or Where I'm Calling From 
John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever 
Robert Coover, Pricksongs and Descants 
Cecil Dawkins, The Quiet Enemy
Andre Dubus, Finding a Girl in America 
Stanley Elkin, Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits 
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine 
Tom Franklin, The Poachers
Richard Ford, Rock Springs 
William H. Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country 
Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan or In The Land of Dreamy Dreams 
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories 
Reginald McKnight, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas 
James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room 
Lorrie Moore, Like Life 
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women 
Antonya Nelson, The Expendables 
Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp 
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried 
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find 
Frank O'Connor, Collected Stories 
Dale Ray Phillips, My People’s Waltz
Mark Richard, The Ice at the Bottom of the World 
Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus 
J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories 
William Trevor, The Hill Bachelors 
John Updike, Too Far To Go: The Maples Stories
William Van Wert, The Advancement of Ignorance 
Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome To The Monkey House 
David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair 
Tobias Wolff, In The Garden of the North American Martyrs 
Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness