Preface To the Instructor About the Authors Fiction Interview with Amy Tan 1. Reading a Story The Art of Fiction Types of Short Fiction W. Somerset Maugham,The Appointment in Samarra Aesop,The North Wind and the Sun Bidpai,The tortoise and the geese Chuang Tzu,Independence Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm,Godfather Death Plot The Short Story John Updike,A & P Writing Effectively Writers on Writing John Updike,Why Write? Thinking About Plot Checklist: Writing About Plot Writing Assignment on Plot More Topics for Writing Terms for Review 2. Point of View Identifying Point of View Types of Narrators Stream of Consciousness William Faulkner,A Rose for Emily Edgar Allan Poe,The Tell-Tale Heart Virginia Woolf , A Haunted House Eudora Welty,Why I Live at the P.O. James Baldwin,Sonny's Blues Writing Effectively Writers on Writing James Baldwin,Race and the African American Writer Thinking About Point of View Checklist: Writing About Point of View Writing Assignment on Point of View More Topics for Writing Terms for Review 3. Character Types of Characters Katherine Anne Porter,The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Mansfield,Miss Brill Naguib Mahfouz,The Lawsuit Raymond Carver,Cathedral Writing Effectively Writers on Writing nbs