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Index
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Note
Introduction
1: Ten Things That Art Can Do
2: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
3: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
4: Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette
5: George Eliot, Middlemarch
6: George Gissing, New Grub Street
7: The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
8: Roberto Bolano, 2666
9: Complimentary Toilet Paper: Some Thoughts on Character and Language—Michael Jeffrey Lee, George Saunders, John Cheever, Denis Johnson
10: Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels
11: Paul Bowles, The Stories of Paul Bowles and The Spider’s House
12: Patrick Hamilton, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy; The Slaves of Solitude; Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl’s Court
13: Isaac Babel
14: Lolita, Just the Dirty Parts: On the Erotic and Pornographic
15: Gitta Sereny, Cries Unheard
16: Andrea Canobbio, Three Light-Years
17: Diane Arbus: Revelations
18: Helen Levitt, Crosstown
19: Mark Strand, Mr. and Mrs. Baby
20: Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle
21: Elizabeth Taylor, Complete Short Stories
22: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
23: Jane Austen
24: Charles Baxter, Believers
25: Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
26: Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
27: Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach
28: Rebecca West
29: Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
30: On Clarity
31: Reiner Stach, Is That Kafka? 99 Finds
32: What Makes a Short Story?
33: In Praise of Stanley Elkin
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About the Author
Also by Francine Prose
Copyright
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