The eye of the story: selected essays and reviews

1. On writers: The radiance of Jane Austen

Henry Green: novelist of the imagination

Katherine Anne Porter: the eye of the story

The house of Willa Cather

Reality in Chekhov's stories

2. On writing: Looking at short stories

Writing and analyzing a story

Place in fiction

Words into fiction

Must the novelist crusade?

"Is Phoenix Jackson's grandson really dead?"

Some notes on time in fiction

3. Reviews: The Western journals of Washington Irving / edited and annotated by John Francis McDermott

Names on the land / by George R. Stewart

Granite and rainbow / by Virginia Woolf

The letters of Virginia Woolf, volume II / edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joann Trautmann

Charlotte's web / by E.B. White

Intruder in the dust / by William Faulkner

Selected letters of William Faulkner / edited by Joseph Blotner

Marianne Thornton / by E.M. Forster

The life to come, and other stories / by E.M. Forster

The most of S.J. Perelman; Baby, its cold inside / by S.J. Perelman

The saddest story: a biography of Ford Madox Ford / by Arthur Mizener

The underground man / by Ross Macdonald

Last tales / by Isak Dinesen

The cockatoo / by Patrick White

Pictures and conversations / by Elizabeth Bowen

4. Personal and occasional pieces: A sweet devouring

Some notes on river country

Fairy tale of the Natchez Trace

A pageant of birds

The flavor of Jackson

The little store

Ida M'Toy

One time, one place : Mississippi in the depression; a snapshot album.