{"id":3508,"date":"2007-01-12T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T09:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/storytellers.html"},"modified":"2007-01-12T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T09:59:49","slug":"storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/storytellers.html","title":{"rendered":"Storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/stories_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Stories_1\" src=\"https:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/openbook\/images\/stories_1.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Take a look at this new title<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1580512100\/spiritualthoug09\"> from Sheed and Ward: The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed &amp; Ward Collection<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowmanlittlefield.com\/Catalog\/TOC.shtml?command=Search&amp;db=^DB\/CATALOG.db&amp;eqSKUdata=1580512100&amp;thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]\">The table of contents:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Old Red&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Caroline Gordon <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Presence&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Caroline Gordon <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Peach Stone&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Paul Horgan <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Lions, Harts, Leaping Does&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>J.F. Powers <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Devil in the Desert&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Paul Horgan <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Emmanuele, Emmanuele&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Caroline Gordon <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Displaced Person&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Flannery O&#8217;Connor <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Dawn&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>J.F. Powers <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Silent Retreats&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Phil Deaver <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Keepsakes&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Jon Hassler <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Resident Priest&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Jon Hassler <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Geneseo&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Phil Deaver <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Playland&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Ron Hansen <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Devil and Irv Chernische&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>T. Coraghessan Boyle <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Rich Brother&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Tobias Wolff <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Mrs. Cassidy&#8217;s Last Year&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Mary Gordon <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;The Whore&#8217;s Child&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Richard Russo <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Died and Gone to Vegas&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Tim Gautreaux <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;Good for the Soul&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Tim Gautreaux <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&quot;A Father&#8217;s Story&quot;<\/strong> <br \/>Andre Dubus <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>I&#8217;m especially glad to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amywelborn.com\/gautreaux\/article.html\">Gautreaux<\/a> and &quot;The Whore&#8217;s Child&quot; by Russo. We&#8217;d talked about redoing an older, similar (but not just American) short story collection at Loyola (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385234287\/ref=olp_product_details\/105-6961787-9290838?ie=UTF8&amp;seller=\">this one)<\/a>, and those were stories I had put on my shortlist for inclusion, among others. Three from Caroline Gordon is interesting. They must have had a good deal on rights (I&#8217;m not saying they&#8217;re not good &#8211; I&#8217;ve not read them. It&#8217;s just that in a collection like this, getting rights can be a bear, and when you find a source where it&#8217;s not so much a problem&#8230;you go with it. Which also means, chances are if there&#8217;s something spectacular that&#8217;s not included&#8230;problems with rights might be the reason). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I&#8217;d highly recommend &quot;Good for the Soul&quot; by Gautreaux. It&#8217;s one of the best stories I&#8217;ve ever read, on every level. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this new title from Sheed and Ward: The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed &amp; Ward Collection. The table of contents: &quot;Old Red&quot; Caroline Gordon &quot;The Presence&quot; Caroline Gordon &quot;The Peach Stone&quot; Paul Horgan &quot;Lions, Harts, Leaping Does&quot; J.F. Powers &quot;The Devil in the Desert&quot; Paul Horgan &quot;Emmanuele, Emmanuele&quot; Caroline&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Storytellers - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/storytellers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Storytellers - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Take a look at this new title from Sheed and Ward: The Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed &amp; Ward Collection. 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