Article: "Fox fire in my head, but soggy wood on paper": Harriette Simpson Arnow's experiments in the short story.

The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow, edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Haeja K. Chung. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005. 259 pp. $24.95, paper.

"IN THE SHORTER FORMS, AS IN THE LONGER ONES, HER ACHIEVEMENT IS immense, significant," writes author Robert Morgan of Harriette Arnow's short stories, recently collected by Sandra Ballard and Haeja Chung. Additional back cover blurbs by distinguished writers Ron Rash, Fred Chappell, and Kathryn Stripling Byer also sound high praise for Arnow and her editors: "a wonderfully readable book," "a model of literary scholarship and criticism." Even though I know that book jacket commendations ...

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