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Short Stories
Excerpts from The Bean Trees and Prodigal Summer. Women Writing in Appalachia, Sandra L. Ballard, Patricia L. Hudson, eds. University Press of Kentucky. Fall 2003, p 330
HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES. New York: HarperCollins, 1989. 244 pages.
SELECTED REVIEWS
Times Literary Supplement 7 September 1990:956.
New Statesman & Society 13 July 1990:44.
The Women's Review of Books VII(4)January 1990:13.
Special Report Fiction "Growing Up Female" Nov 89-Jan 90:67.
Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women Summer 1989:32.
Denver Post 27 August 1989.
Los Angeles Times Book Review 16 July 1989:[ ].
New York Times Book Review 6 May 1990:38;11 June 1989:16.
Library Journal 15 May 1989:90.
Publishers' Weekly 7 April 1989:129.
"Homeland." Homeland and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories, ed Morris Allen Grubbs. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Summer 2001. Pp 298-311
"Homeland," read by the author, Caedmon Short Story Collection (audio). HarperAudio. Spring 2001
Homeland," My Favorite Fantasy Story, Maritn H. Greenburg, ed. DAW, New York. Fall 2000: 141-159.
"Secret Animals", in Fish Stories Collective III. Erin Fossett, ed. Chicago: WorkShirts Writers Center, 1997.
"Rose-Johnny".
This is a unique entry in this bibliography. This short story was acted on stage and read verbatim, by the group known as "Word for Word," which puts books on stage in live performance. A review of this event and style of presentation appears in an article by Robert Hurwitt in The San Francisco Examiner 26 July 1996 .
"Quality Time" in Mothers - Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood "edited and with an Introduction by Katrina Kenison and Kathleen Hirsch". New York: North Point Press (a division of Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), 1996.
Appears in HOS; includes an author's note by BK.
"Quality Time" in Mother, Claudia O'Keefe, ed. Pocket Books 1995.
"Quality Time" in The Single Mother's Companion: Essays and Stories by Women ed. Marsha R. Leslie. Seal Press, 1994:124-.
"Stone Dreams" in 'Did My Mama Like To Dance?' and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters. Geeta Lothari, ed.NY: Avon Books,1994: 30.
"Rose-Johnny" in First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth. Loughery, John, ed. New York: Persea Books, 1993.
See SS31. Appears in HOS.
"Why I Am a Danger to the Public" in Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West. Craig Lesley and Katheryn Stavrakis, eds. New York: Laurel, 1993.
See SS30. Appears in HOS.
"Why I Am a Danger to the Public" in New Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Recent Western Writing. Russell Martin, ed. New York: Penguin, 1992:158.
See SS30. Appears in HOS.
"Secret Animals." Turnstile 3(2), (1992): 11-22.
Lydia, happily married and newly pregnant, meets Samuel, whose job is to search out supposedly extinct animals.
"Fault Lines." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 12(3) Winter 1992: 182-189. Also appeared in Buzz, September (1994):80.
A widow moves with her two young sons from Kentucky to the different world of California.
"My Father's Africa." McCall's August (1991):115.
A missionary moves his wife and five daughters to the Congo.
"Precious Little Time." Redbook July 1989:28-.
A single mother reflects on sharing a wide range of too-brief precious daily moments with her daughter; reworked to appear as "Quality Time" in HOS.
"Bereaved Apartments." Tucson Guide Quarterly Spring 1989:115-.
A beautifully crafted, older single home divided into two separate apartments introduces the reader to Sulie, a petty thief with an honest heart who meets a slick, heartless larcenist, and the sobering lessons she learns that force her to leave. Appears in HOS.
"The Lost Language of Love." Mademoiselle May 1989:[ ].
Describing the problems encountered by a couple who moves from the city to the country, BK shows how changing situations create new options for communication and getting along. Appears in HOS as "Blueprints".
"Rose-Johnny," in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 1988. Shannon Ravenel, ed. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988: page 140.
"Rose-Johnny." Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1987 63:88-109.
A "different" local personality with a tragic background is misunderstood and not appreciated, except by the empathetic ten year old narrator. Appears in HOS.
"Why I Am a Danger to the Public." New Times January 4-10 [1986]:37-.
Follows the plight of a Mexican-American single mother who, while working for the cause of striking miners, is unjustly jailed. Kingsolver's first commercially published short story; appears in HOS.
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