Collected Stories and Other Writings
Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter "writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory." Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, "many are unsurpassed in modern fiction," and when gathered in one volume in 1965 they won their author both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Library of America now reprints that landmark volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter's long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography.
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
Go Little Book
Flowering Judas and Other Stories
María Concepción
Virgin Violeta
The Martyr
Magic
Rope
He
Theft
That Tree
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Flowering Judas
The Cracked Looking-Glass
Hacienda
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Old Mortality
Noon Wine
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
The Leaning Tower and Other Stories
The Old Order
The Source
The Journey
The Witness
The Circus
The Last Leaf
The Fig Tree
The Grave
The Downward Path to Wisdom
A Day’s Work
Holiday
The Leaning Tower
ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND OTHER WRITINGS
“I needed both . . .”
Critical
The Days Before
Reflections on Willa Cather
A Note on The Troll Garden
Gertrude Stein: Three Views
“Everybody Is a Real One”
Second Wind
The Wooden Umbrella
“It Is Hard to Stand in the Middle”
Eudora Welty and A Curtain of Green
The Wingèd Skull
On a Criticism of Thomas Hardy
E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
D. H. Lawrence
Quetzalcoatl
A Wreath for the Gamekeeper
“The Laughing Heat of the Sun”
The Art of Katherine Mansfield
The Hundredth Role
Dylan Thomas
“A death of days . . .”
“A fever chart . . .”
“In the morning of the poet . . .”
A Most Lively Genius
Orpheus in Purgatory
In Memoriam
Ford Madox Ford (1873 — 1939)
James Joyce (1882 — 1941)
Sylvia Beach (1887 — 1962)
Flannery O’Connor (1925 — 1964)
Personal and Particular
On Writing
My First Speech
“I must write from memory . . .”
No Plot, My Dear, No Story
“Writing cannot be taught . . .”
The Situation of the Writer
The Situation in American Writing
Transplanted Writers
The International Exchange of Writers
The Author on Her Work
No Masters or Teachers
On “Flowering Judas”
“The only reality . . .”
“Noon Wine”: The Sources
Notes on the Texas I Remember
Portrait: Old South
A Christmas Story
Audubon’s Happy Land
The Flower of Flowers
A Note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté
A House of My Own
The Necessary Enemy
“Marriage Is Belonging”
A Defense of Circe
St. Augustine and the Bullfight
Act of Faith: 4 July 1942
The Future Is Now
The Never-Ending Wrong
Mexican
Why I Write About Mexico
Reports from Mexico City, 1920 — 1922
The New Man and the New Order
The Fiesta of Guadalupe
The Funeral of General Benjamín Hill
Children of Xochitl
The Mexican Trinity
Where Presidents Have No Friends
In a Mexican Patio
Leaving the Petate
The Charmed Life
Corridos
Sor Juana: A Portrait of the Poet
Notes on the Life and Death of a Hero
A Mexican Chronicle, 1920 — 1943
Blasco Ibanez on “Mexico in Revolution”
Paternalism and the Mexican Problem
La Conquistadora
¡Ay, Que Chamaco!
Old Gods and New Messiahs
Diego Rivera
These Pictures Must Be Seen
Rivera’s Personal Revolution
Parvenu . . .
History on the Wing
Thirty Long Years of Revolution
Autobiographical
About the Author
The Land That Is Nowhere
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- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 1100
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781598530292
- Genres
- fiction, essays, classics, literature, collections, american, writing
- Release date
- 2008
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