About These Stories

by David Huddle

Based on the idea that fiction-writing and fiction-reading are natural and mutually nourishing activities, this text compiles a selection of short stories - many contemporary - designed for creative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070308519
• ISBN13: 9780070308510
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Creative Writing Textbook

Editors Huddle, Orth, and Shepherd put themselves on the line by writing revealing "critical responses" to each of the sixteen "professional" short stories in this anthology. To top this off, they conclude the volume with a student short story (critiqued by a fellow student), then offer one story apiece, with cross-commentary, from their perspective as writing teachers. Thus, twenty stories and twenty short commentaries comprise this useful anthology, representing writers as diverse as Kafka and Chekhov, Carver and Mishima, Reynolds Price and Barry Hannah.