The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.-Life:Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois...

 is a compilation of all Hempel's short stories published between 1985 and 2005. The collection was published by Scribner

Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon...

 in 2006

2006 in literature

The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Literature:*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun*Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital *Martin Amis - House of Meetings...

 with an introduction by Rick Moody

Rick Moody

Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...

. The book was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to...

 and was selected by The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review

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as one of the 10 best books of 2006.

The collection includes Hempel's four previous collections: Reasons to Live (1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), and The Dog of the Marriage (2005).

Reasons to Live

• "In a Tub"
• "Tonight Is a Favor to Holly"
• "Celia Is Back"
• "Nashville Gone to Ashes"
• "San Francisco"
• "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried"
• "Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep"
• "Going"
• "Pool Night"
• "Three Popes Walk into a Bar"
• "The Man in Bogotá"
• "When It's Human Instead of When It's Dog"
• "Why I'm Here"
• "Breathing Jesus"
• "Today Will Be a Quiet Day"

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom

• "Daylight Come"
• "The Harvest"
• "The Most Girl Part of You"
• "Rapture of the Deep"
• "Du Jour"
• "Murder"
• "The Day I Had Everything"
• "To Those of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights Out of O'Hare"
• "And Lead Us Not into Penn Station"
• "In the Animal Shelter"
• "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom"
• "The Lady Will Have the Slug Louie"
• "Under No Moon"
• "The Center"
• "Tom-Rock Through the Eels"
• "The Rest of God"

Tumble Home

• "Weekend"
• "Church Cancels Cow"
• "The Children's Party"
• "Sportsman"
• "Housewife"
• "The Annex"
• "The New Lodger"
• "Tumble Home"
• "Notes"

The Dog of the Marriage

• "Beach Town"
• "Jesus Is Waiting"
• "The Uninvited"
• "Reference #388475848-5"
• "What Were the White Things?"
• "The Dog of the Marriage"
• "The Afterlife"
• "Memoir"
• "Offertory"
• "Notes"