American voices: best short fiction

Roses, Rhododendron / Alice Adams

Separating / John Updike

116th Street Jenny / Judith Rossner

The rich brother / Tobias Wolff

The swimmers / Joyce Carol Oates

Midair / Frank Conroy

Edie: A life / Harriet Doerr

Fenstad's mother / Charles Baxter

Rules of the game / Amy Tan

The halfway diner / John Sayles

Another marvelous thing / Laurie Colwin

Lily / Jane Smiley

One holy night / Sandra Cisneros

Nothing to ask for / Dennis McFarland

Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog / Stephanie Vaughn

The church of no reason / Andrea Barrett

A small, good thing / Raymond Carver

New African / Andrea Lee

Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason

In a father's place / Christopher Tilghman.