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The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud

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Collections of Stories:

[The Magic Barrel] [Idiots First] [Pictures of Fidelman] [Rembrandt's Hat]

[The Stories of Bernard Malamud] [The People and Uncollected Stories]

The Complete Stories

[Introduction] [1940s] [1950s] [1960s] [1970s] [1980s]

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The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.

[A complete collection of Malamud's fifty-five stories "arranged as accurately as possible in the order of composition rather than publication" according to the editor Robert Giroux (the "Introduction" of the book). I have found, however, contradictions in the order. With regard to the third story "The Grocery Store" which was supposed to have been "written in 1944" according to the "Sources" in The People and Uncollected Stories, it is in 1943 according to the "Appendix" here. Presumably, the story was written in 1943. A more serious mistake is the 23rd story "An Apology." It was first published in November, 1951, not in 1957; this will inevitably contradict "the order of composition."]
  • "Introduction"
    [Written by Robert Giroux, Malamud's editor. It supplies some important biographical data on the author.]
    1940s

  1. "Armistice"
    [Written in Washington in 1940.]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  2. "Spring Rain"
    [Written in 1942.]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  3. "The Grocery Store"
    [Written in 1944 according to the "Sources" in The People and Uncollected Stories and in 1943 according to the "Appendix" in The Complete Stories.]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  4. "Benefit Performance"
    Threshold, 3 (February, 1943), pp. 20-22.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  5. "The Place is Different Now"
    American Preface, 8 (Spring, 1943), pp. 230-242.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  6. "Steady Customer"
    New Threshold, 8 (August, 1943),     pp. ???.
    First book publication in The Complete Stories.
  7. "The Literary Life of Laban Goldman"
    Assembly, 1 (November, 1943), pp. 24-27.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.


    8. 1950s
  8. "The Cost of Living"
    Harper's Bazaar, 84 (March, 1950), pp. 142, 209, 212-213.
    Collected in Idiots First, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  9. "The Prison"
    Commentary, 10 (September, 1950), pp. 252-255.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel.
  10. "The First Seven Years"
    Partisan Review, 17 (September-October, 1950), pp. 661-671.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  11. "The Death of Me"
    World Review, 26 (April, 1951), pp. 48-51.
    Collected in Idiots First, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  12. "The Bill"
    Commentary, 11 (April, 1951), pp. 355-358.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  13. "The Loan"
    Commentary, 14 (July, 1952), pp. 56-59.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  14. "A Confession of Murder"
    [The first section of the unpublished novella The Man Nobody Could Lift. Written in 1952-53. ("Sources") Written in 1952; opening chapter of abandoned novel The Man Nobody Could Lift. ("Appendix") ]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  15. "Riding Pants"
    [Written in 1953.]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  16. "The Girl of My Dreams"
    American Mercury, 76 (January, 1953), pp. 62-71.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  17. "The Magic Barrel"
    Partisan Review, 21 (November, 1954), pp. 587-603.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  18. "The Mourners"
    Discovery, 5 (January, 1955), pp. 37-95.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  19. "Angel Levine"
    Commentary, 20 (December, 1955), pp. 534-540.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  20. "A Summer's Reading"
    New Yorker, 32 (September 22, 1956), pp. 143-150.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel.
  21. "Take Pity"
    America, (September 25, 1956), pp. .
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  22. "The Elevator"
    The Paris Review, 31 (Fall, 1989),     pp. ??? [Written in Italy in 1957]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  23. "An Apology"
    Commentary, 12 (November, 1951), pp. 460-464.
    [The year of publication is mistakenly printed as 1957 in 1991 Kosofsky, although it is "November 1951" in 1969 Kosfsky. It is also mistakenly printed as 1957 both in the "Sources" of The People and in the "Appendix" of The Complete Stories. I owe this finding to Leonard J. Lehrman.]
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  24. "The Last Mohican"
    Partisan Review, 25 (Spring, 1958), pp. 175-196.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel, A Malamud Reader, Pictures of Fidelman, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  25. "The Lady of the Lake"
    First published in The Magic Barrel.
  26. "Behold the Key"
    Commentary, 25 (May, 1958), pp. 416-427.
    Collected in The Magic Barrel.
  27. "The Maid's Shoes"
    Partisan Review, 26 (Winter, 1959), pp. 32-44.
    Collected in Idiots First, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.


    28. 1960s
  28. "Idiots First"
    Commentary, 32 (December, 1961), pp. 101-112.
    Collected in Idiots First, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  29. "Still Life"
    Partisan Review, 29 (Winter, 1962), pp. 95-112.
    Collected in Idiots First, and Pictures of Fidelman.
  30. "Suppose a Wedding"
    New Statesman, 65 (February 8, 1963), pp. 198-200.
    Collected in Idiots First.
  31. "Life is Better than Death"
    Esquire, 59 (May, 1963), pp. 78-79.
    Collected in Idiots First, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  32. "The Jewbird"
    Reporter, 28 (April 11, 1963), pp. 33-36.
    Collected in Idiots First, A Malamud Reader, Two Fables, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  33. "Black is My Favorite Color"
    Reporter, 29 (July 18, 1963), pp. 43-44.
    Collected in Idiots First, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  34. "Naked Nude"
    Playboy, 10 (August, 1963), pp. 48-50, 52, 122-124.
    Collected in Idiots First, and Pictures of Fidelman.
  35. "The German Refugee"
    Saturday Evening Post, 236 (September 14, 1963), pp. 38, 39. [The title in the magazine was "The Refugee".]
    Collected in Idiots First, A Malamud Reader, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  36. "A Choice of Profession"
    Commentary, 36 (September, 1963), pp. 235-241.
    Collected in Idiots First.
  37. "A Pimp's Revenge"
    Playboy, 14 (September, 1968), pp. 68-70, 126, 156.
    Collected in Pictures of Fidelman.
  38. "Man in the Drawer"
    Atlantic, 221 (April, 1968), pp. 70-78, 89-93.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  39. "My Son the Murderer"
    Esquire, 70 (November, 1968), pp. 102-104.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  40. "Pictures of the Artist"
    Atlantic, 222 (December, 1968), pp. 63-70. [The title in the magazine was "Pictures of Fidelman."]
    Collected in Pictures of Fidelman.
  41. "An Exorcism"
    Harper's, 237 (December, 1968), pp. 534-540.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories. [Revised by the author for The Stories of Bernard Malamud but not included by him.]
  42. "Glass Blower of Venice"
    First published in Pictures of Fidelman.


    43. 1970s
  43. "God's Wrath"
    Atlantic, 229 (February, 1972), pp. 59-62.
    Collected in The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  44. "Talking Horse"
    Atlantic, 230 (August, 1972), pp. 27-34.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, Two Fables, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  45. "The Letter"
    Esquire, 78 (August, 1972), p. 136.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  46. "The Silver Crown"
    Playboy, 19 (December, 1972), pp. 120-122, ff.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  47. "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party"
    Harper's, 246 (February, 1973), pp. 86-90.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat.
  48. "In Retirement"
    Atlantic, 231 (March, 1973), pp. 48-52.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  49. "Rembrandt's Hat"
    New Yorker, 49 (March 17, 1973), pp. 34-49.
    Collected in Rembrandt's Hat, and The Stories of Bernard Malamud.


    50. 1980s
  50. "A Wig"
    Atlantic, 245 (January, 1980), pp. 33-36.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  51. "The Model"
    Atlantic, 252 (August, 1983), p. 80.
    Collected in The Stories of Bernard Malamud.
  52. "A Lost Grave"
    Esquire, 103 (May, 1985), pp. 204, 206.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  53. "Zora's Noise"
    Gentlemen's Quarterly [GQ], 245 (January, 1985), pp. 124-126, 164-168.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  54. "In Kew Garden"
    Partisan Review, [Double (Anniversary) Issue] 51 (Fall, 1984), and 52 (Winter, 1985), pp. 536-540.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  55. "Alma Redeemed"
    Commentary, 78 (July, 1984), pp. 30-34.
    Collected in The People and Uncollected Stories.
  • Appendix: Bibliography of Bernard Malamud's Stories
    [Lists the first publication data (no pagination) of each story and specifies which previous collections of stories it was collected in as in the above.]
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