"The Old Man at the Bridge" by Ernest Hemingway

Audio for the short story "The Old Man at the Bridge" by Ernest Hemingway

"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter

Audio for "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter

"The Man Who Was Almost a Man" by Richard Wright

"The Bear" by William Faulkner

Audio of "The Bear"

William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

"A Man Called Horse" by 

Dorothy M. Johnson