Books Edited By:
All the Available Light. [Essays on Marilyn Monroe.]
American Fiction. [With Alan Davis and Michael C. White.] Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers, 1997.
American Gothic Tales. New York: Dutton/Plume, 1996.
The Best American Essays 1991. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1991.
The Best American Essays of the Century. Boston: Houghton, 2000.
The Best American Short Stories 1979. [With Shannon Ravenel.] Boston: Houghton, 1979.
Best New American Voices 2003. [With John Kulka and Natalie Danford.] San Diego, CA: Harcourt/Harvest, 2002.
The Essential Dickinson. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1996.
First Person Singular: Writers on Their Craft. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P, 1983.
Night Walks: A Bedside Companion. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P/New York: Persea, 1982.
The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. [With R.V. Cassill.] New York: Norton, 1998.
The O. Henry Prize Stories [With Dave Eggers and Colson Whitehead.] Anchor, 2002.
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, UK/New York: Oxford U P, 1992.
Reading the Fights. [With Dan Halpern.] New York: Holt, 1988. Reprinted: New York: Prentice, 1990.
Scenes from American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction. New York: Vanguard, 1973.
Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction. [With Janet Berliner.] Boston: Godine, 2000.
The Sophisticated Cat. [With Daniel Halpern.] New York: Dutton, 1992. Reprinted: New York: Plume, 1993; London: Pan, 1994.
STORY: Fictions Past and Present. [With Boyd Litzinger.] Lexington, MA: Heath, 1985.
Southern California Anthology. [With James Ragan and X. J. Kennedy.] Scnthology--Professional Writing Programs, 1996.
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1997. Reprinted: New York: Ecco, 2000.
Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers. New York: Norton, 1998.