Good Stories, Well Told http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Good-Stories-Well-Told-Jean-Chance-Bill-McKeen/9780534529475

A Feature Writing Anthology

By Jean Chance, Bill McKeen

Table of Contents

Janet Flanner, "The Week After the War Began"; Ernie Pyle, "The Story of Captain Waskow"; John Hersey, "The Unforgettable Fire"; Joseph Mitchell, "Up in the Old Hotel"; E.B. White, "Afternoon of an American Boy"; Lillian Ross, "The Yellow Bus"; John Updike, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu"; Terry Southern, "Twirling at Ole Miss"; Tom Wolfe, "The Last American Hero"; Truman Capote, "Dick and Perry"; George Plimpton, "Series of Downs"; Gay Talese, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"; John McPhee, "Orange Men"; Norman Mailer, "The Theater of Ideas"; Michael Herr, "Hell Sucks"; Joan Didion, "A California Dream"; Joe McGinniss, "Campaigner"; Hunter S. Thompson, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved"; Joe Esztherhas, "Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse"; Timothy Crouse, "The Old Squeeze Play"; Nora Ephron, "The Littlest Nixon" Jimmy Breslin, "The President Talked with Mr. Haldeman"; Gail Sheehy, "Redpants and Sugarman"; Roger Angell, "The Sixth Game"; Jessica Mitford, "Checks and Balances"; Selwyn Raab, "A Good Little Girl"; Calvin Trillin, "Covering the Cops"; Edna Buchanan, "Husbands of the Widow Elkin"; Randy Shilts, "Patient Zero"; Maria Vesperi, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"; Leigh Montville, "You are Always a Kid"; Molly Ivins, "Soap Opera City"; P.J. O'Rourke, "Accepting Chaos"; Marie Brenner, "I Never Sang for My Mother"; Rick Bragg, "Prisoners of Age"; Nancy Shulins, "Tender Mercies".