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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:John Updike John Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, — 10 CDs — Contents: — [Vol. 1] — Disc 1. Introduction -- The other woman / Sherwood Anderson (read by John Updike) -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter (read by Jill McCorkle) -- Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald (read by George Plimpton) ... more »--
Disc 2. Crazy Sunday (cont.) -- Gold coast / James Alan McPherson (read by the author) -- The interior castle / Jean Stafford (read by Mary Gordon) --
Disc 3. The interior castle (cont.) -- The German refugee / Bernard Malamud (read by Alan Cheuse) -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick (read by the author) --
Disc 4. How to win / Rosellen Brown (read by the author) -- I want to live! / Thom Jones (read by the author) --
Disc 5. I want to live! (cont.) -- Birthmates / Gish Jen (read by the author) --
[Vol. 2]
Disc 6. Wild plums / by Grace Stone Coates (read by Ashley Warlick) -- Here we are / by Dorothy Parker (read by Meg Wolitzer) -- Christmas gift / by Robert Penn Warren (read by Christopher Tilghman) -- The hitch-hikers / by Eudora Welty (read by Jill McCorkle) --
Disc 7. The hitch-hikers (cont.) -- The second tree from the corner / by E.B. White (read by Donald Hall) -- Gesturing / by John Updike (read by John Updike) -- A city of churches / by Donald Barthelme (read by Rick Moody) --
Disc 8. The things they carried / by Tim O'Brien (read by Tim O'Brien) -- Where I'm calling from / by Raymond Carver (read by Charles Baxter) --
Disc 9. Where I'm calling from (cont.) -- You're ugly, too / by Lorrie Moore (read by Lorrie Moore) -- Proper library / by Carolyn Ferrell (read by Carolyn Ferrell) --
Disc 10. Proper library (cont.) -- The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston (read by the author)« less