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 |
In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives. Whether she writes about a widow on a visit to Russia, a small boy's consignment to boarding school, or an agoraphobic housewife, Penelope Lively takes the reader past the closed curtains, through the locked door, into a world that seems at first mundane and then at second glance, proves to be uniquely memorable.