Good Country People(Flannery O'Connor) 1
Defender of the Faith(Philip Roth) 26
Black Is My Favorite Color(Bernard Malamud) 64
The Swimmer(John Cheever) 77
Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?(Joyce Carol Oates) 92
How I Contemplated the World(Joyce Carol Oates) 114
Lost in the Funhouse(John Barth) 133
Everyday Use:for your grandmama(Alice Walker) 161
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas(Ursula K.le Guin) 174
A Silver Dish(Saul Bellow) 183
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love(Raymond Carver) 219
Janus(Ann Beattie) 235
The Way We Live Now(Susan Sontag) 243
Appendix:Glossary of Literary Terms 264
Bibliography 281