Red Smith, “Kings Get in Free”
Ernest Hemingway, “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”
Elizabeth Spencer, “The White Azalea”
James Weldon Johnson, “Stranger Than Fiction”
E. O. Wilson, “Krakatau”
Elizabeth Spencer, “A Southern Landscape”
Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal”
O. Henry, “A Retrieved Reformation”
Maria Carter, “The Murder of John Walthall”
Edith Wharton, “The Other Two”
Mark Twain, “The Killing of Julius Caesar, Localized”
Henry James, “The Real Thing”
Joan Didion, “L.A. Noir”
Charles E. Van Loan, “Baseball as the Bleachers Like It”
Robert Frost, “In the Home Stretch”
W. O. McGeehan, “Gertrude Ederle vs. the Channel”