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Sixty Stories1,01761614.164.000.87
Forty Stories61641274.024.000.91
Snow White56771073.533.500.99
The Dead Father4615803.653.500.81
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker4965613.584.000.95
The King2361393.593.500.99
City Life170 323.924.000.92
Come Back, Dr. Caligari1882314.164.000.57
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe2682313.954.000.81
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 19702542303.854.001.05
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts1572284.094.000.64
Sadness1052243.834.000.73
The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme1552203.754.000.84
Paradise1622193.323.000.92
Amateurs1133183.814.001.19
The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics)2112174.034.000.58
Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme127 163.844.000.46
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss1561143.794.000.59
Flying to America: 45 More Stories671133.854.000.69
Overnight to Many Distant Cities1111134.354.500.72
Great Days65 133.964.000.66
Guilty Pleasures691133.884.000.68
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story68573.213.000.99
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby (Penguin Mini Modern Classics)15153.704.000.60
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine47153.904.001.11
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century38143.884.251.14
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor125 43.754.000.43
SF1284143.253.500.83
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology37 24.504.500.50
"The Balloon" (in SF 12)3112.502.50 
Padesát povídek1 13.003.00 
Game3213.503.50 
I Bought a Little City [short story] [podcast]1 14.004.00 
Concerning the Bodyguard [short story] [podcast]1 14.004.00 
The Indian Uprising (in The Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD)2 13.503.50 
Presents2 15.005.00 
Voltiges1     
Me and Miss Mandible (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD)1     
The Emerald (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL)2     
Der Kopfsprung1     
Glass Mountain [short story]1     
A Manual for Sons1     
"Views of My Father Weeping" (in Detective Fiction: C&C)1     
Pages from the Annual Report (in McSweeney's 24 - EGGERS)1     
The Genius1     
No Royalty A/C Snow White1     
The Bed (in McSweeney's 24 - EGGERS)1     
The Best American Short Stories 197914     
Sam's Bar7     
The Best American Essays 1986431    
Here in the Village3     
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The New Yorker, Jan. 28, 1974 "The Photographs"1     

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