Contents
Preface
Richard Bausch
All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona
Doris Betts
The Ugliest Pilgrim
Mary Ward Brown
Let Him Live
Andre Dubus
If They Knew Yvonne
Richard Ford
Rock Springs
Ernest Gaines
Just Like a Tree
George Garrett
A Wreath for Garibaldi
Ellen Gilchrist
The Lower Garden District Free Gravity Mule Blight or Rhoda, a Fable
William Goyen
Figure over the Town
Tom T. Hall
Murphy Walls and the Oriental Hummer
Barry Hannah
Testimony of Pilot
William Harrison
The Arsons of Desire
Mary Hood
Solomon's Seal
William Humphrey
The Pump
Bobbie Ann Mason
A New-Wave Format
James Alan McPherson
Private Domain
Lewis Nordan
Sugar Among the Chickens
Flannery O'Connor
Parker's Back
Revelation
Jayne Ann Phillips
Rayme
Raynolds Price
The Warrior Princess Ozimba
Bob Shacochis
Easy in the Islands
Lee Smith
Between the Lines
Elizabeth Spencer
I, Maureen
Steve Stern
Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven
Peter Taylor
Cookie
Dean of Men
Alice Walker
Nineteen-Fifty-Five
Eudora Welty
The Bride of the Innisfallen
Where is the Voice Coming From?