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The O. Henry Prize stories. 2019 / chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapnyar on the stories they admire most.

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Anchor Books, c2019.

FICTION PEN 2019

Alternate title:

PEN/O. Henry Prize stories. 2019 : chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Lynn Freed, Elizabeth Strout, Lara Vapnyar on the stories they admire most.

100th Anniversary ed.

xxxviii, 457 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Laura Furman -- Funny little snake / Tess Hadley -- Synchronicity / John Keeble -- No Spanish / Moira McCavana -- Girl of few seasons / Rachel Kondo -- Julia and Sunny / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- Unstuck / Stephanie Reents -- Mermaid River / Alexia Arthurs -- Bad girl / Valerie O'Riordan -- Aguacero / Patricia Engel -- Soma / Kenan Orhan -- Goodnight nobody / Sarah Hall -- 610 North, 610 West / Bryan Washington -- Mr. Can'aan / Isabella Hammad -- Omakase / Weike Wang -- Prime / Caoilinn Hughes -- Slingshot / Souvankham Thammavongsa -- The shrew tree / Liza Ward -- Flowers for America / Doua Thao -- Lagomorph / Alexander MacLeod -- Maps and Ledgers / John Edgar Wideman -- Reading The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019: the jurors on their favourites -- Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 : The writers on their work.

"The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year--by a diverse and international mix of writers--selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The collection includes essays by the three eminent guest jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publishish short fiction."--Cover.

Literary fiction.

Strout, Elizabeth

Vapnyar, Lara, 1971-

American Center of P.E.N.

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