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	James Alan McPherson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States novelist and short story writer and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973.
		He won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his short story collection, Elbow Room.
		In 2000, John Updike selected his short story "Gold Coast" for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century (Houghton Mifflin).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Alan_McPherson (191 words)

	The Stories of John Cheever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stories of John Cheever is a short story collection by American author John Cheever.
		It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Swimmer" and "Goodbye, My Brother." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979; the paperback version won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
		Preceded by: Elbow Room (short story collection) by James Alan McPherson (1978 winner)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Stories_of_John_Cheever (116 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 105, P-R
		The first book, a collection of stories, by this writer who has helped define the role of women and politics in contemporary literature: always engaged but never didactic, Paley's prose and poetry resonate with both the ordinariness of everyday life, and the wonder of all life.
		Her stories were collected in an omnibus volume that received critical acclaim and was also nominated for the National Book Award.
		A collection of stories by one of the leading writers of her generation.
	www.lopezbooks.com /catalog/105/105-11.html (1365 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 105, L-M
		One of the stories is laid in in the form of stapled, photocopied tearsheets.
		Short, potent stories of the war, and one of the most accomplished, and least common, of the literary offerings on Vietnam.
		The correct first edition (i.e., Canadian) of her fifth book, a collection of stories that was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
	www.lopezbooks.com /105/105-09.html (2310 words)

	collectedstories: short story contest calendar, Q1 2006
		Carve, an online fiction magazine, decreased the first prize for their short story contest by $500 this year, after having upped it by the same amount last year: $2,000 will be awarded for first place and $1,000 to second place, with a $500 third place prize and $100 going to all finalists.
		This prize is for a collection of short fiction and awards $1,000 and publication by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
		Short story collections written in English and published in the preceding calendar year are eligible to compete.
	collectedstories.com /files/storyteller/contests_q1.html (2031 words)

	The SF Site: An Interview with Kevin J. Anderson
		It's a love story of another sort, exploring the push and pull of two people who are committed to one another -- and the impulse, in life and art, to draw together into a unified being, while still needing to define personal boundaries.
		The other stories in the collection were chosen among my personal favorites, mainly to show a range of types, not just the same old stuff.
		Speaking of stories that could easily make for full length novels, I found "Collaborators" (which you and Rebecca Moesta collaborated on, fittingly enough) to be so evocative in terms of the world in which it was set that I found myself wishing for it to be a novel.
	www.sfsite.com /04b/ka222.htm (4880 words)

	Amazon.com: Elbow Room: Books: James Alan Mcpherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The range here is astounding: "The Story of a Dead Man," is reminiscent of "bad-man" folk songs like "Railroad Bill" or "Stagolee"; "The Faithful" shows the clash of generations in the story of a stubborn barber; while the title story depicts McPherson's uncompromising, yet optimistic, vision for an integrated America.
		That's how "The Story Of A Scar" begins, and though the tale she tells is less involving on reflection, McPherson's halting, sometimes querulous way of giving it to you reminds you of the power of narrative as character.
		Collected here are a dozen stories which deal with people's lives, families, interactions, relationships, and experiences as a part of African American society.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449213579?v=glance (1334 words)

	ipsographic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I'm working now on the collected stories of John Cheever, which is not next on the Pulitzer Prize list but is the next one I could get, since I read The Optimist's Daughter out of order and The Killer Angels and Elbow Room are checked out of both the university and public libraries.
		We've moved, and life has seemed a little more fragmented lately than it used to; short stories are good for times like that because they require less sustained attention and less effort from the reader.
		Her characters are believable and diverse: some are eaten up by loneliness or regret or bitterness; some struggle to break through negative experiences and keep on living; some confront the ugliness of the world and refuse to understand it while others see beauty and hope.
	www.ipsographic.com (861 words)

	Powell's Books - PowellsBooks.Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Stick a collection of stories in your bag and you can whip it out when you have ten minutes in the waiting room at the dentist's office, or read just one quick story before bed.
		Short fiction is as much about exclusion as inclusion, as much about what you don't include as what you do.
		Some of the modern short story collections I most admire: A Kind of Flying (Ron Carlson), Elbow Room (James Alan McPherson), The Necessary Grace to Fall (Gina Ochsner), Friend of My Youth (Alice Munro), and A Stranger In This World (Kevin Canty).
	www.powells.com /blog/?p=712 (1039 words)

	Redding: Features Columnists
		Unfortunately, the home's adjoining living and dining rooms were short on space and extra seats -- including the piano bench and butcher's block -- were always being dragged in from other rooms to accommodate the guests.
		I started the reconfiguration in the dining room by ripping out all of the existing bulky corner cabinetry and replacing it with a wall of mirror-backed cabinets with glass shelves that better utilize the space.
		To make the room seem even bigger, I freshened the walls in the living/dining rooms and adjacent kitchen with bone color paint, and brightened the trim with a rich shade of vanilla.
	www.redding.com /redd/fe_columnists/article/0,2232,REDD_17501_4779954,00.html (637 words)

	Computer Graphics World - The Toys are back!
		One was in remaining true to the Toy Story world even though their filmmaking skills had improved during the past four years.
		In Toy Story 2, the complexity is in the geometry." She notes that two of the most geometrically complex scenes take place in a downtown area and in an airport.
		In Toy Story 2, there are approximately 1200 models that range in size from a pencil to an airport--plus variations, according to Susman.
	cgw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Archives&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=50678 (2450 words)

	Caller.com: Home & Garden
		Unfortunately, the home’s adjoining living and dining rooms were short on space and extra seats — including the piano bench and butcher’s block — always were being dragged in from other rooms to accommodate the guests.
		I started the reconfiguration in the dining room by ripping out all of the existing bulky corner cabinetry and replacing it with a wall of mirror-backed cabinets with glass shelves that better use the space.
		To make the room seem even bigger, I freshened up the walls in the living/dining rooms and adjacent kitchen with bone color paint, and brightened the trim with a rich shade of vanilla.
	www.caller.com /ccct/home_and_garden/article/0,1641,CCCT_861_4785960,00.html (615 words)

	African American Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Story of John Washington, a fl historian, who comes back to Chaneysville, the site where 13 runaway slaves were killed, to visit a dying friend.
		Short stories [of] Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes ; edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad.
		A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.
	www.mtsu.edu /~vvesper/afam.html (3235 words)

	Amazon.com: Crabcakes: A Memoir: Books: James Alan McPherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Thus the story at the heart of the book--McPherson's decision to sell a Baltimore house he has owned for nearly 20 years, evicting his elderly tenant--is interwoven with reminiscences of a waiter on the Great Northern Railway, Baltimore street scenes, and a bittersweet set of instructions about what to do when stopped by police.
		McPherson, whose many honors include the Pulitzer Prize (Elbow Room, 1978), is currently a professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
		James Alan McPherson, the author of two of the greatest short story collections of the postwar era, Hue and Cry (1969) and Elbow Room (1977) ends tewnty years of book silence with a moving, illuminating memoir of his journey from personal isolation to acceptance and understanding of community.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684847965?v=glance (1421 words)

	Admissions - Writers' Workshop - The University of Iowa
		Ethan Canin is the author of five books of fiction, among them the novel, Carry Me Across the Water, the collection of long stories, The Palace Thief, and the collection of short stories, Emperor of the Air.
		Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger (1998), and a novel, Inheritance (2004).
		His story, “The Point”, first published in the New Yorker, was selected for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 1991.
	www.uiowa.edu /~iww/faculty/fiction.htm (696 words)

	Return to Pleasure Island
		"Collective Work" means a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology or encyclopedia, in which the Work in its entirety in unmodified form, along with a number of other contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole.
		She was short enough to look Craphound in the eye, a hair under five feet, and had a skinny, rawboned look to her.
		He may have been something high-powered and cool and collected in his natural environment, but just then, he was as eager and nervous as a kitchen-table poker-player at a high-stakes game.
	www.desandies.com /doctorow/Craphound.html (7873 words)

	Body
		Chris felt that Emile was ready to tell the story simply, in words that twentyish-year olds would readily comprehend, rather than putting all of his energies into the struggle to get it into a form which would be convincing to 'the establishment'.
		Emile went to the keyboard and began to type in his reflections on how the traditional problem-oriented focus on 'things' and their properties and behaviors, and the judgemental approach associated with this, was leading to dysfunction in the social ecology.
		As I continue 'my story', I first want to reiterate my view that what is at the very base of what is wrong with the system is that the system tries to perceive and manage everything on the basis of 'things' and the properties and behaviors of things,...
	www.goodshare.org /ecothink.htm (7944 words)

	SAA > Learning & Travel > Alumni Education > Stanford Reads > Book Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A collection of his short stories titled "Emporium" was published in Spring 2002 and was nominated for a Young Lions Award.
		I like that she writes about important themes and often uses historical backdrop as in a story, "The Ant of the Self" that features the Million Man March as a setting or the final story in the book, "Doris is Coming", in which our protagonist engages a movement of change through a sit-in.
		A lot of the stories focus on coming of age but with that coming of age and coming to understand the system under which you've been raised and the inherent unfairness of it.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /learningtravel/alumnied/stanfordreads/booksalontranscriptreader.html?content_instance_id=111272 (1056 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: A Pinata For Juanita [A Short Story from the Shards Universe] by Peter W. Prellwitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A Pinata For Juanita [A Short Story from the Shards Universe] [MultiFormat]
		An ever growing collection of short stories, novellas, novels, and a website filled with information, timelines, research (both real and fictional), glossary and more, the tapestry that makes up the Shards Universe follows mankind's exploration of space and their settlement of dozens of planets.
		Stories do not have to be read in any sort of order, chronological or otherwise.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook37632.htm (2463 words)

	Author Rosemary Edghill
		My first short story was published in Amazing Stories in 1984, a piece that would later grow up to become three novels, rather in the fashion of Topsy.
		Yes, I'm sure the story I sent was bad: it took me another ten years or so and a couple of novels to actually learn how to write a halfway-decent short story.
		Suffice it to say that there I was around 1982, in possession of a 150,000 Regency novel (Turkish Delight), a 5,000 SF short story (Hellflower), and (with one thing and another) several years of practice, during which time I'd managed to make every single Beginning Prose Writer error.
	www.sff.net /people/eluki/piper.html (1437 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		story of the 8 yr journey of a slave from Rome, Ga. to Louisville, Ga. (several editions dating from 1920 to 1973) Isam’s Spectacles — 1920 The Blue Hen’s Chicken — 1924 The Tenth Generation — 1928 Little Legends of the Land — 1930 Edwards, Sam Isaac — lives Calhoun.
		Father was a Virginian, his mother a Savannahian - her stories of the old South made him yearn for Savannah, where he later lived and wrote.
		Short stories have won many awards, inc. Flannery O'Connor award, Southern Review/Louisiana State University Press Award, Townsend Prize Books: Waiting to Vanish - Bantam, 1988 And Venus is Blue: Stories - Ticknor & Fields, NY, 1986.
	www.gabooks.com /gawritrs.txt (10065 words)

	African-Americans into the Millennium
		And there are 12 novels and one short story collection, attesting to the continued power of African American fiction.
		These eight short stories by the Trinidad-born Canadian Alexis were called "the fiction debut of the year" by the Toronto Sun when they were published in Canada in 1994.
		In this collection of essays English professor Bascom introduces the early writings of some of the masters of American literature -- Ralph Ellison and Dorothy West are among the notables -- who detail the lives of pullman porters, domestic workers, and other everyday people of Harlem.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/blackhis/bib2000.htm (2916 words)

	Jeanette Winterson - Books - The World & Other Places
		This is my first collection of short stories - made up of virtually every story I have written in thirteen years.
		The earliest story, Psalms, is about a tortoise, and very much in the Oranges mould (or do I mean mold - it's such a long time ago?).
		The most recent story - 1997, is The Twenty Four Hour Dog, and you know, some people love that story and some people hate it.
	www.jeanettewinterson.com /pages/content/index.asp?PageID=17 (577 words)

	Tongues Untied
		While many of the authors in the collection were fluent in English, they apparently found a kind of imaginative freedom writing in a more familiar tongue.
		Perhaps the boldest use of a non-English tongue is Victor Séjour's chilling short story, "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto").
		The story focuses on a slave, who, after witnessing his wife's rape by his master, incites a plantation revolt and chops off his master's head with an ax.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~lowinus/lingua.html (1818 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: African American Literature in the Black
		Often adopting the colorful, tough lingo of the streets, they read their poetry in bars, on street corners and at political rallies -- in short, wherever potential readers could be found.
		Many of the supportive small presses led short lives, however, and as time progressed, poets found themselves at the mercy of virtually all-white publishing houses.
		Rita Dove's first collection to be published by a major house, The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), signalled the emergence of a tightly disciplined, restrained poetic style, a movement away from the loud urgency favored by the Black Arts school.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/25thann/asim.htm (1985 words)

	ABC News: Poll: Majority of Americans Want the Senate to Confirm Alito
		Sampling, data collection and tabulation for this poll were done by TNS.
		Beyond those who think he'll overturn Roe, opposition to Alito is highest — though well short of a majority — among liberals (44 percent oppose his nomination), people with postgraduate educations (39 percent) and young adults (38 percent of those under age 30).
		This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone Jan. 5-8, 2006, among a random national sample of 1,001 adults.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/PollVault/story?id=1485425 (586 words)

	Random House Publishing Group \| Elbow Room by James M. McPherson
		A beautiful collection of short stories that explores fls and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor.
		Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define.
		Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.
	www.randomhouse.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449213575 (137 words)

	Ignatz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Instead, I recommend that you find yourself a copy of James Alan McPherson's short story collection "Elbow Room", and read the story "Why I Like Country Music." (Amazon's got it; just be sure to click to Amazon through Atrios, please).
		To make a long story short, State Farm unreasonably and in bad faith refused to settle a car-wreck case against its insured, Campbell; so the case against Cambell went to trial and he lost.
		Hardwick in a few months, because (in paraphrase, long story short) a constitutional-law victory in the Supreme Court merely encourages political mobilization by the opposition while detracting from the political mobilization of the supporters of the right in question.
	sheldman.blogspot.com /2002_12_01_sheldman_archive.html (10124 words)

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