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Read by . . : John Updike, Tim O'Brien, Rosellen Brown, Lorrie Moore, George Plimpton, others

Publisher . : Houghton Mifflin (2000) 6-98125 (also Mariner Books)

ISBN . . . .: ISBN-10 0618093206 ISBN-13: 9780618093205

Format . . .: MP3. 30 tracks, 490 MB

Bitrate . . : ~85 kbps (iTunes 9, VBR, Mono, 44.1 kHz)

Source . . .: 10 CDs (12.7 hours)

Genre . . . : Fiction, Short stories, Literary Collections

Unabridged .: Unabridged

John Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the result is "a spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement". This extraordinary collection features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the genre, along with authors reading from their own work. Containing twenty-two unabridged stories in all, the expanded CD audio edition includes a new story from THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999 to round out the century.

Author Title Reader

Sherwood Anderson "The Other Woman" John Updike

Catherine Ann Porter "Theft" Jill McCorkle

F. Scott Fitzgerald "Crazy Sunday" George Plimpton

James Alan McPherson "Gold Coast" -the author

Jean Stafford "The Interior Castle" Mary Gordon

Bernard Malamud "The German Refugee" Alan Cheuse

Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl" -the author

Roseleen Brown "How to Win" -the author

Thom Jones "I Want to Live!" -the author

Gish Jen "Birthmates" -the author

Grace Stone Coates "Wild Plumbs" Ashley Warlick

Dorothy Parker "Here We Are" Meg Wolitzer

Robert Penn Warren "Christmas Gift" Christopher Tilghman

Eudora Welty "The Hitch-Hikers" Jill McCorkle

E. B. White "The Second Tree from the Corner" Donald Hall

John Updike "Gesturing" -the author

Donald Barthelme "A City of Churches" Rick Moody

Tim O'Brian "The Things They Carried" -the author

Raymond Carver "Where I'm Calling From" Charles Baxter

Lorrie Moore "You're Ugly Too" -the author

Carolyn Ferrell "Proper Library" -the author

Pam Houston "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" -the author

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