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Each year the students at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, under the leadership of Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft, select the best of the year’s output for inclusion in the annual volume of Stanford
court in the winter of 1950. It is also a working newspaperman’s critique of his own profession. “The news business somehow makes its practitioners the guiltiest characters in town, because they usually know better, “ says the author.
Denise James’s story, “A Kind of Faith,” involves the conflict between a girl’s desire to find a hidden and painless life – in a convent – and her father’s wish to send her to Europe. The resolution of the situation reflects a familiar stage in the business of becoming an adult.
Another kind of father-daughter problem is the theme of “Equinox” by Helen Prentice. Here the daughter of a famous professor must bridge the gulf between his public and his private self. The gulf is bridges, but at the cost of sacrifice of illusion. In “Arrest,” by Luis Harss, the parents of three children are arrested. The author takes this event ot show how children are able to reconstruct their torn-apart world in a strange and wonderful manner.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original.
Title Stanford Short Stories 1956
Editor Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804760764, 9780804760768
PREFACE Richard Scowcroft v
AMELIA Ebe S. Seidenberg 1
THE JOURNEY TO BRENTWOOD Eugene Ziller 19
HELP HER TO BELIEVE Tillie Olsen 34
A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Richard Kraus 43
A KIND OF FAITH Denise James 58
LEAD ME HOME Hilary Fonger 74
A WRY ANECDOTE Hughes Rudd 83
EQUINOX Helen Prentice 97
ARREST Luis Harss 113
APPENDIX: On the Writing of a Story 129
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stanford press, stanford university creative writing center, wallace stegner, richard scowcroft, ebe seidenberg, eugene ziller, tillie olsen, richard kraus, denise james, hilary fonger, hughes rudd, helen prentice, luis harss 
