Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Andrea Barrett, Marisa Silver, Roy Parvin, Alice Munro, Rick Bass, Ha Jin, Rick Moody, John Updike and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Introductions by Barbara Kingsolver and Katrina Kennison, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926882.