Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review

Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review

Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review

Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six Decades of The Georgia Review

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Overview

Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review has become one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious readers—and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and sustains repeated attention and consideration. Pulitzer Prize winners and never-before-published writers are equals during the journal’s manuscript evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print stories, poems, and essays that promise to be of lasting merit.

The year 2012 marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of The Georgia Review, and Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard will acknowledge that milestone by presenting a selection of the remarkable short fiction published across the decades. The collection includes the work of well-known writers, many of whom were not yet so well known when first selected for publication by The Georgia Review, and also highlights compelling work from writers whose names may not be as familiar but whose stories are equally compelling and memorable.

The stories collected here—each one vivid, distinctive, and worthwhile to read—stand as testament to the significance of The Georgia Review’s decades of work to identify and promote writing of exceptional quality.

Publication of this book was made possible, in part, by the President’s Venture Fund through generous gifts of the University of Georgia Partners.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780820342542
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 03/01/2012
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

STEPHEN COREY is editor of the Georgia Review and the author of nine collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World.

DOUGLAS CARLSON is associate prose editor of The Georgia Review. He is the author of Roger Tony Peterson: A Biography, and his work has been anthologized in At the Edge and When We Say We're Home. He has served on the Faculty Editorial Board for UGA Press and has also served advisory roles for Ascent magazine, White Wine Press, and New Rivers Press.

HARRY CREWS (1935–2012) is the author of eighteen novels, including The Mulching of America, The Knockout Artist, and A Feast of Snakes. He was a professor at the University of Florida.

PAM DURBAN is the author of The Laughing Place, which won the 1994 Townsend Prize for Fiction. In addition, Durban is the recipient of the 1988 Whiting Writer's Award and the 1984 Rinehart Award in Fiction. Her stories, which have appeared in such publications as Tri-Quarterly, Crazyhorse, and the Georgia Review, have been widely anthologized. She teaches at Georgia State University.

BARRY LOPEZ is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Arctic Dreams, for which he won the National Book Award. He lives in Oregon.

DAVID INGLE is an Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia and also works as a freelance book editor.

Table of Contents


Barry Lopez, "Foreword"
Acknowledgments
Stephen Corey, "Introduction: Single Sittings"
Jesse Stuart, "From the Mountains of Pike” (Summer 1953)
Harry Crews, "A Long Wail” (Summer 1964)
James Lewis MacLeod, "The Jesus Flag” (Summer 1967)
Siv Cedering, "Family Album” (Summer 1978
T. C. Boyle, "I Dated Jane Austin” (Summer 1979)
Gary Gildner, "Sleepy Time Gal” (Summer 1979)
William Faulkner, "A Portrait of Elmer” (Fall 1979)
Fred Pfeil, "The Idiocy of Rural Life” (Spring 1980)
Fred Chappell, "The Snow That Is Nothing in the Triangle” (Winter 1981)
Pam Durban, "This Heat” (Summer 1982)
Naomi Shihab Nye, "The Cookies” (Winter 1982)
Ernest J. Gaines, "Robert Louis Stevenson Banks, a.k.a. Chimley” (Summer 1983)
Donald Hall, "The World Is a Bed” (Summer 1983)
Lee K. Abbott, "The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance” (Fall 1983)
T. E. Holt, "Apocalypse” (Winter 1983)
Mary Hood, "Manly Conclusions” (Winter 1983)
Jim Heynen, "Stories about the Boys” (Fall 1984, Summer 1993, Summer 2001)
Jack Driscoll, "Wanting Only to Be Heard” (Winter 1987)
John Edgar Wideman, "Concert” (Fall 1989)
Liza Wieland, "The Columbus School for Girls” (Fall 1991)
Lee Martin, "Light Opera” (Summer 1995)
Marjorie Sandor, "Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime” (Fall 1997)
William Gay, "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down” (Fall 1998)
Kevin Brockmeier, "These Hands” (Fall 1999)
Phyllis Moore, "Rembrandt's Bones” (Winter 1999)
Barry Lopez, "The Mappist” (Spring 2000)
Joyce Carol Oates, "Three Girls” (Fall 2002)
George Singleton, "Which Rocks We Choose” (Summer 2006)
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