Available now for the first time on compact disc, this title offers all 21 stories of the award-winning cassette, along with a recent short story by Pam Houston, "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had". This lively audiobook features a wide variety of contemporary writers reading classics of the short story genre.

Updike introduces and reads some of these stories, which he selected for their liveliness, believability and importance. The selections are by writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Joyce Carol Oates, James Alan McPherson, and Raymond Carver.

Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland.

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century.

This classic, first published in 1919, is brilliantly narrated by Terry Bregy. A collection of stories set in a fictitious town in the 1890's, considered a forerunner of modern fiction and a ground-breaking masterpiece.