How We Live: Contemporary Life in Contemporary Fiction: An Anthology

Presents "short stories, novellas, and self-contained excerpts from novels in such a way that we are given a comprehensive psychological-sociological account of our life and times." Alone. The remobilization of Jacob Horner / John Barth ; I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin ; Bridgeport bus / Maureen Howard ; The suicide / Evan S. Connell, Jr. ; Prologue : the man who studied Yoga / Norman Mailer ; A shower of gold / Donald Barthelme -- In Families. The family meadow / John Updike ; A family matter / George P. Elliott ; Heads of houses / Peter Taylor ; Summer in the mountains / Roger Angell ; Sunday dinner in Brooklyn / Anatole Broyard ; Notes from the file on Mrs. Bridge / Evan S. Connell, Jr. ; Incest / John Updike ; The dark woman of the sonnets / Harold Brodkey ; Herzog visits Chicago / Saul Bellow ; Dance of the divorced / Herbert Gold ; Two short sad stories from a long and happy life / Grace Paley ; Don't call me by my right name / James Purdy ; One of you must be Wendell Corey / Philip L. Greene -- In communities. Goose Pond / Thomas Williams ; The father / R.V. Cassill ; Cyclists' raid / Frank Rooney ; The intruder / Robert Henderson ; The self-made brain surgeon / Mark Harris ; Twelve chases on West Ninety-ninth Street / Roy Bongartz ; The country husband / John Cheever -- At work. The misfits / Arthur Miller ; Joe, the vanishing American / Harvey Swados ; Reinhart goes to work / Thomas Berger ; The pale virgins shrouded in snow / John Heffron Porter -- In religion : Jewish conflicts in cultural assimilation. A wedding in Brownsville / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; The Jewbird / Bernard Malamud ; Other Chanukahs / Leo Skir ; Defender of the faith / Philip Roth ; Eli, the fanatic / Philip Roth ; When you're excused you're excused / Bruce Jay Friedman ; Dovisch in the wilderness / Herbert Wilner -- In race : the visible Negro. Prologue to Invisible man / Ralph Ellison ; The nickel misery of George Washington Carver Brown / Ivan Gold ; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor ; Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams ; Black is my favorite color / Bernard Malamud ; The man child / James Baldwin -- In class : minute distinctions in the middle. The classless society / Elizabeth Hardwick ; What really matters / Malcolm Wood ; The best of everything / Richard Yates ; The forks / J.F. Powers -- In some overviews. Grand Guy Grand / Terry Southern ; Traveling with Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov ; Chaos, disorder and the Late Show / Warren Miller ; Nighwatch at vernal equinox / Hughes Rudd ; The death of Justina / John Cheever -- In some stratagems. Lifeguard / John Updike ; Night-sea journey / John Barth ; A game of catch / Richard Wilbur -- Appendix: In defense of contemporary fiction -- A final note. View Less