by Eudora Welty
She makes fiction seem simple to produce. "What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself," she explains in a preface. "Whether this happens to be a man or a woman, old or young, with skin black or white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high." These 41 stories, dating from 1936 to 1966, are consistently superior. Their Southernness is deceptive; they are about all of us. No writer provides more truth and pleasure in a few pages of storytelling. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $17.50)
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