The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel is a compilation of all Hempel's short stories published between 1985 and 2005. The collection was published by Scribner in 2006 with an introduction by Rick Moody. The book was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 best books of 2006.

The collection includes Hempel's four previous collections: Reasons to Live (1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), and The Dog of the Marriage (2005).

Contents
Foreword by Rick Moody: "On Amy Hempel"

Reasons to Live

 * "In a Tub"
 * "Tonight Is a Favor to Holly"
 * "Celia Is Back"
 * "Nashville Gone to Ashes"
 * "San Francisco"
 * "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried"
 * "Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep"
 * "Going"
 * "Pool Night"
 * "Three Popes Walk into a Bar"
 * "The Man in Bogotá"
 * "When It's Human Instead of When It's Dog"
 * "Why I'm Here"
 * "Breathing Jesus"
 * "Today Will Be a Quiet Day"

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom

 * "Daylight Come"
 * "The Harvest"
 * "The Most Girl Part of You"
 * "Rapture of the Deep"
 * "Du Jour"
 * "Murder"
 * "The Day I Had Everything"
 * "To Those of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights Out of O'Hare"
 * "And Lead Us Not into Penn Station"
 * "In the Animal Shelter"
 * "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom"
 * "The Lady Will Have the Slug Louie"
 * "Under No Moon"
 * "The Center"
 * "Tom-Rock Through the Eels"
 * "The Rest of God"

Tumble Home

 * "Weekend"
 * "Church Cancels Cow"
 * "The Children's Party"
 * "Sportsman"
 * "Housewife"
 * "The Annex"
 * "The New Lodger"
 * "Tumble Home"
 * "Notes"

The Dog of the Marriage

 * "Beach Town"
 * "Jesus Is Waiting"
 * "The Uninvited"
 * "Reference #388475848-5"
 * "What Were the White Things?"
 * "The Dog of the Marriage"
 * "The Afterlife"
 * "Memoir"
 * "Offertory"
 * "Notes"