Short Fiction Collections

2010 Sourland: Stories
2009 Dear Husband: Stories
2008 Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway
2007 The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2006 High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006
2006 The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
2004 I am No One You Know: Stories
2001 Faithless: Tales of Transgression

1998 The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
1996 Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories
1994 Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
1993 Where are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories
1992 Where Is Here?
1991 Heat and Other Stories
1990 Oates in Exile
1989 The Assignation: Stories
1986 Raven's Wing: Stories
1984 Wild Saturday
1984 Last Days: Stories
1980 A Sentimental Education: Stories
1979 All the Good People I've Left Behind
1977 Night-Side
1976 Crossing the Border
1975 The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories From the Portuguese
1975 The Seduction and Other Stories
1974 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Stories of Young America
1974 The Goddess and Other Women
1974 The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies
1972 Marriages and Infidelities
1970 The Wheel of Love And Other Stories
1966 Upon the Sweeping Flood And Other Stories
1963 By the North Gate

I have one in my library called Small Avalanches and other Stories. I haven't read it yet, but it appears to belong on this list ?????

ETA with a blush . . .

. . . . . and then I look at the other threads and there it is in the YA list!

I should have known you wouldn't have missed one Lois!

>3 judylou: I have that one, also. I will interested to compare the stories with her adult stuff. If truth be told, her website has been invaluable.

HERE'S a review of her latest collection of short stories in the NY Times Book Review, date April 3rd.

I remember greatly enjoying Heat and Other Stories. I'd be curious to see a listing of all the multitude of anthologies her short fiction has been featured in. Not that I'm attempting to heap more work & research on you, avaland. ;-)

Great group! Thanks for starting it.

Courtesy of Akeela, here is an interview with JCO from the GoodReads site:

>6 absurdeist: It's ok, EF, previous work has been transcribed from lists on her website:-) However, I should take a look at the anthology list because I'm not sure now if it is anthologies she's edited or anthologies she's been featured in (I'm inclined towards the former, because I don't remember it being a humongous list, which the latter would clearly be).

I will keep that collection in mind when I pick up another of hers to read. I've read more of her short fiction than novels, I think.

I just finished this collection which originally was published in 1963. This was Oates' first published collection and contains "In the Old World", her first published story, published in Mademoiselle in August 1959. My edition, recently acquired from BookMooch, is a paperback edition issued in 1971 after she had won the National Book Award (one can probably by these for $1 on ABE).

The fourteen stories contained in this debut collection, all written in the late 1950s and early 1960s, all have post-depression, rural American settings, many (or perhaps all) in the fictional and clearly ironically named "Eden County." Her characters are mostly the rural poor. Having read several of her more contemporary collections in the last year, I was struck with how often she tells a story in the voice or from the viewpoint of a child or adolescent. I was also, once again, struck with how amazingly observant she is and how eerily perceptive - and what a damn fine writer she was even as a undergraduate and graduate student. There were a couple of stories that bewildered me, and at least one I didn't care much for, but the others were very good and I thought two very powerful. In "A Legacy," a young girl named Laura is being taken by her father to see her brother a last time. As the story unfolds, the reader comes to understand, much better than Laura, just what the brother's situation is and why it is a "last time." But it is the child's perceptions and reactions as she struggles to understand which are so powerful (I'm trying to avoid spoilers here). The other story which stood out as both riveting and powerful turned out to be her first, "In the Old World" is a story of wrong, remorse and racism. The reader catches just a glimpse of something in the story, in one of the characters -- hope maybe, and then it's gone (many of these stories are written with a bit of mystery to them that Oates' slowly undresses). These collected stories seem to challenge American idealism and morality, and they seem to speak to the urges and desires secreted away in all of us.

I have just finished reading Dear Husband. I will come back here with some more thoughts soon.

(Cross post with my Club Read 2010 Thread)

Still working through High Lonesome - I love short stories, but I can't read too many of them by the same author at once or they get diluted for me. JCO's especially are proving so intense that I read one and need a break. I'm kind of confused by my reaction to these stories, to be honest. I read three or four in quick succession today and with each one, I found that I knew exactly where the story was heading. The plot "twists" - to the extent that these events were even supposed to be twists - were utterly and completely anticipated, no matter how far-fetched they ended up being. But here's the thing - I've read almost every single one of them in breathless anticipation, enjoyed the language, and wanted to keep reading. This kinda makes me think that the plot can't possibly be the point.

Hello all.
I haven't had time for much reading lately but have read quite a few of her short stories and this author does not know how to write a poor short story. I have loved every one of her shorts I have ever read.
hugs,
belva

I agree, Belva!

My favorites::

Marriages and Infidelities

Faithless

The Collector of Hearts

what to say..I am addicted.

>14 jdthloue: I haven't read any of those three...

Besides the collection Sourland coming out in October (I think), there is also "Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense" coming out in January.