Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Dear Life
by Alice Munro | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
Forty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
City Solipsism: A Short Story
by Zack Love | 
The Complete Stories
by Bernard Malamud | 
One Arm and Other Stories
by Tennessee Williams | 
Girl With Curious Hair
by David Foster Wallace | 
The Shell Collector
by Anthony Doerr | 
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
by Denis Johnson | 
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Collected Stories
by Grace Paley | 
Microscripts
by Robert Walser | 
The Great Frustration
by Seth Fried | 
Rock Springs
by Richard Ford |
A holiday story finds Esther Bolick considering not giving her expensive holiday cakes to friends that have disappointed her, before a Christmas carol reminds her of the meaning of gift giving.