The Bohemian Girl gitanilla" itself has been filmed three times, but never in English. "The Bohemian Girl" is mentioned in the short stories "Clay" and "Eveline" by James Joyce which are both parts of "Dubliners". In "Clay", the character Maria sings some lines from "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls". The aria is quoted again in Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake". Booth Tarkington mentions the opera, though not by name, in "The Two Vanrevels", and quotes a line of the aria "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls". The opera is mentioned, and the aria is referred to several times, in the novel
Short story and Grace Paley cultivated distinctive Jewish-American voices. Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" (1961) adopted a consciously feminist perspective. James Baldwin's collection "Going to Meet the Man" (1965) told stories of African-American life. Frank O'Connor's "The Lonely Voice", an exploration of the short story, appeared in 1963. Wallace Stegner's short stories are primarily set in the American West. Stephen King published many short stories in men's magazines in the 1960s and after. The 1970s saw the rise of the postmodern short story in the works of Donald Barthelme and John Barth. Traditionalists including John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates maintained