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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014

Laura Furman

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories roam the world, from Nigeria to Venice, from an erupting volcano in Iceland to a brothel in the old Wild West. They feature a dazzling array of characters: a young American falling in love in Japan, a girl raised by snake-handling fundamentalists, an old man mourning his late wife, and a fierce guard dog with a talent for escape. Accompanying the stories are the editor's introduction, essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

Mark Haddon, "The Gun," Granta
Stephen Dixon, "Talk," The American Reader
Tessa Hadley, "Valentine," The New Yorker
Olivia Clare, "Pétur," Ecotone
David Bradley, "You Remember The Pin Mill," Narrative
Kirstin Valdez Quade, "Nemecia," Narrativemagazine.com
Dylan Landis, "Trust," Tin House
Allison Alsup, "Old Houses," New Orleans Review
Halina Duraj, "Fatherland," Harvard Review
Chanelle Benz, "West of the Known," The American Reader
William Trevor, "The Women," The New Yorker
Colleen Morrissey, "Good Faith," The Cincinnati Review
Robert Anthony Siegel, "The Right Imaginary Person," Tin House
Louise Erdrich, "Nero," The New Yorker
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, "A Golden Light," Threepenny Review
Chinelo Okparanta, "Fairness," Subtropics
Kristen Iskandrian, "The Inheritors," Tin House
Michael Parker, "Deep Eddy," Southwest Review
Maura Stanton, "Oh Shenandoah," New England Review
Laura van den Berg, "Opa-Locka," The Southern Review

The Jurors on Their Favorites: Tash Aw, James Lasdun, Joan Silber
The Writers on Their Work
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Book Details

  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Sep 9th, 2014
  • Pages: 416
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9780345807311
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Anthologies (multiple authors)Literary

About the Author

Laura Furman, series editor of The O. Henry Prize Stories since 2003, is the winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for her fiction. The author of seven books, including her recent story collection The Mother Who Stayed, she taught writing for many years at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Central Texas.

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Praise for this book

"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction."
--"The Atlantic Monthly"