Lorrie Moore "People Like That Are the Only People Here" The New Yorker, January 27, 1997 Steven Millhauser "The Knife Thrower" Harper's Magazine, March 1997 Alice Munro "The Children Stay" The New Yorker, Dec. 22 & 29, 1997 The New Yorker Maxine Swann "Flower Children" Ploughshares, Vol. 23, Nos. 2&3 Brian Evenson "Two Brothers" Dominion Review, Volume XV George Saunders "Winky" The New Yorker, July 28, 1997 Karen Heuler "Me and My Enemy" The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 73, No. 4 Thom Jones "Tarantula" Zoetrope: All-Story, Vol. 1, No. 1 Suketu Mehta "Gare du Nord" Harper's Magazine, August 1997 Carolyn Cooke "Eating Dirt" New England Review, Vol. 18, No. 2 Peter Ho Davies "Relief" The Paris Review, No. 141 Reginald McKnight "Boot" Story, Spring 1997 Josip Novakovich "Crimson" Manoa, Vol. 9, No. 2 Peter Weltner "Movietone: Detour" Fourteen Hills, Vol. 3, No. 2 Akhil Sharma "Cosmopolitan" The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997 D.R. MacDonald "Ashes" Epoch, Vol. 46, No. 2 Rick Bass "The Myths of Bears" The Southern Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 Louise Erdrich "Satan: Hijacker of a Planet" The Atlantic Monthly, August 1997 Don Zancanella "The Chimpanzees of Wyoming Territory" Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 & 4 Annie Proulx "Brokeback Mountain" The New Yorker, October 13, 1997