Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Associate Professor in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Colgate University,USA. She is author of Sustaining Fiction: Midrash, Intertextuality, Translation and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible, as well as articles on the Bible in literature and contemporary culture.Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale University Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts, USA. His previous books include Dante’s Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination and The Poet’s Dante: Twentieth Century Reflections.

• Preface1. America as a Biblical Nation and the Bible as an American Book2. The Short Story as an American Genre3. The Greatest Stories Ever Told4. Flannery O’Connor5. Allegra Goodman6. John Updike7. Jamie Quatro8. Steven Millhauser9. Kirstin Valdez Quade10. Tobias Wolff11. Bernard Malamud12. Nathan EnglanderBibliographyIndex