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Tim Parks: ‘The Tangling Point’ by Tim Parks © Tim Parks 2013. ‘The Tangling Point’ first appeared in The Paris Review and is reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
Edith Pearlman: ‘ToyFolk’ by Edith Pearlman. ‘ToyFolk’ copyright Edith Pearlman from Binocular Vision, used with permission of Pushkin Press
V.S. Pritchett: ‘A Family Man’ by V.S. Pritchett. Reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of V. S. Pritchett.
Thomas Pynchon: ‘Entropy’ from Slow Learner: Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon. First published in the Kenyon Review, Spring, 1960. Reprinted by kind permission of the Melanie Jackson Agency LLC.
Keith Ridgway: ‘Marching Songs’ by Keith Ridgway © Keith Ridgway 2012. ‘Marching Songs’ first appeared in Hawthorn & Child and is reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
George Saunders: ‘The Wavemaker Faulters’ by George Saunders. From Civil Warland in Bad Decline by George Saunders. Published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown.
Delmore Schwartz: ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’ by Delmore Schwartz. Copyright © 1937 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: ‘Gimpel the Fool’ by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Saul Bellow, copyright 1953 by Partisan Review. Copyright Renewed © 1981 by Isaac Bashevis Singer, from A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, Revised and Updated Edition, edited by Irving Howe & Eliezer Greenberg. Used by permission Susan Schulman Agency.
Muriel Spark: ‘The Executor’ by Muriel Spark © Muriel Spark, 1983. First published in The New Yorker, 1983. . Printed with permission from David Higham on behalf of the Estate of Muriel Spark.
Elizabeth Taylor: ‘The Blush’ by Elizabeth Taylor. From The Complete Short Stories by Elizabeth Taylor. Published by Little, Brown Books Ltd.
Nguyen Huy Thiep: ‘Cun’ by Nguyen Huy Thiep. Published by Oxford University Press.
Colm Tóibín: ‘Summer of ’38’ by Colm Tóibín © Colm Tóibín, 2013. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
William Trevor: ‘Broken Homes’ by William Trevor. Copyright © William Trevor, “Broken Homes” from The Collected Stories (Volume I), pp. 522-535, Penguin Group, 2007. Reproduced with the kind permission of Johnson & Alcock Ltd.
Frank Tuohy: ‘Live Bait’ by Frank Tuohy. Reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of Frank Tuohy.
Robert Walser: ‘A Little Ramble’ by Robert Walser. From The Walk by Robert Walser. Reprinted with the kind permission of Profile Books.
Eudora Welty: ‘Petrified Man’ by Eudora Welty. From A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty. Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright © 1939 by Eudora Welty, renewed in 1967 by Eudora Welty.
Angus Wilson: ‘Raspberry Jam’ by Angus Wilson
Tim Winton: ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ by Tim Winton. From The Turning. Published by Scribener. First published in Australia by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited.
P.G. Wodehouse: ‘Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend’ by P.G. Wodehouse. From Blandings Castle and Elsewhere by P.G. Wodehouse. Published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Stefan Zweig: ‘Forgotten Dreams’ by Stefan Zweig. From The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig used with permission of Pushkin Press. Translation by Anthea Bell.
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