A Monitor Guide to Books of September 11 ; A Year after the Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Publishing Industry Has Produced More Than 300 Related Books. No Single Event Has Ever Generated So Many, So Quickly. in the Weeks Leading Up to the Anniversary, We're Providing Summaries of a Small Selection of These Titles. the First List Ran Aug. 22

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110 STORIES

In the slew of Sept. 11 books being released this summer, "110 Stories" may be an anomaly. Composed of two- or three-page poems, short stories, and dramatic prose, it turns literary - rather than documentary - eyes on the terrorist attacks. "In its ways of incessantly building and transforming a world, literature helped me confront reality without promising wholeness or denying absence, shock, and loss," writes Ulrich Baer, the book's editor, in the introduction. So he put out a call to New York's poets and novelists - Paul Auster, Peter Carey, A.M. Homes, and Susan Wheeler among many others - asking for their responses to the tragedy. The guidelines were …