xviii, 364 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Tobias Wolff --
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie --
Hammam / Carol Anshaw --
Salem / Robert Olen Butler --
Pipa's story / Lan Samantha Chang --
Where I work / Ann Cummins --
In the gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark --
We didn't / Stuart Dybek --
The prophet from Jupiter / Tony Earley --
Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell --
The voyage out / John Rolfe Gardiner --
The mail lady / David Gates --
Nicodemus bluff / Barry Hannah --
Cold snap / Thom Jones --
The chasm / John Keeble --
Landscape and dream / Nancy Krusoe --
Fur / Laura Glen Louis --
Melungeons / Chris Offutt --
Mr. Sumarsono / Roxana Robinson --
Batting against Castro / Jim Shepard --
Things left undone / Christopher Tilghman --
From Shanghai / Jonathan Wilson --
Contributors' notes --
100 other distinguished stories of 1993 --
Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.
Responsibility: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Tobias Wolff with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Tobias Wolff.