Scar Vegas
by Tom Paine | 
Honored Guest
by Joy Williams | 
Come to Me
by Amy Bloom | 
All the Time in the World
by E. L. Doctorow |
The Wonders of the Invisible World
by David Gates | 
The Pacific and Other Stories
by Mark Helprin | 
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
by Grace Paley | 
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
by Jim Shepard | 
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
by Amy Bloom | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
The Stories of Paul Bowles
by Paul Bowles | 
Bread and Chocolate
by Philippa Gregory | 
The Whole Story and Other Stories
by Ali Smith |
The Watch
by Rick Bass | 
Don't Cry
by Mary Gaitskill | 
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
by Thom Jones |
The Pugilist at Rest
by Thom Jones | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore |
Offering 10 stories reprinted from magazines like the New Yorker and Playboy, Jones's second collection of short fiction displays the gritty, fatalistic vision and narrative adrenaline that distinguished his NBA-nominated The Pugilist at Rest. Set in Africa, the West Coast and other locales, these tales are teeming slices of life, full of unexpected pathos and black humor amid imagery of warfare, starvation, disease and decay