Carver, Raymond, Short Cuts: Selected Stories, Vintage, 1991.

This collection contains previously published short stories by Carver, on which Robert Altman's film Short Cuts was based. It has an introduction by Altman that discusses the processes of adapting a number of short stories to a single composite narrative film.

Carver, Raymond, and Tom Jenks, eds., American Short Story Masterpieces, Delacorte, 1987.

This work is a collection of what the editors determined to be the best American short stories written between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Cheever, John, The Stories of John Cheever, Knopf, 1978.

This book is a collection of short stories, originally published between 1946 and 1975, written by Carver's close friend, colleague, and fellow author.

Foote, Shelby, ed., Anton Chekhov: Early Short Stories, 1883-1888, Modern Library, 1999.

Foote has collected the early stories of the playwright and fiction writer that Carver has most cited as having influenced his own writing...