The O. Henry Prize stories 2018 : [the best short stories of the year] /
chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Fiona McFarlane. Otessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth Tallent on the stories they admire most.
- xxxviii, 393 pages ; 21 cm.
The tomb of wrestling / Counterblast / Nayla / Lucky Dragon / Stop 'n' go / Past perfect continuous / Inversion of Marcia / Nights in Logar / How we eat / Deaf and blind / Why were they throwing bricks? / An amount of discretion / Queen Elizabeth / The stamp collector / More or less like a man / The Earth, thy great exchequer, ready lies / Up here / The houses that are left behind / We keep them anyway / Solstice / Reading the O. Henry Prize Stories 2018: the jurors on their favorites -- Writing the O. Henry Prize Stories: the writers on their work. Jo Ann Beard, Tin House -- Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review -- Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner -- Viet Dinh, Ploughshares -- Michael Parker, New England Review -- Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review -- Thomas Bolt, n+1 -- Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space -- Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch -- Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker -- Jenny Zhang, n+1 -- Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review -- Brad Felver, One Story -- Dave King, Fence -- Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review -- Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope -- Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares -- Brenda Walker, Kenyon Review -- Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review -- Anne Enright, The New Yorker --
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty breathtaking stories— by a vibrant mix of established and emerging writers— selected by the series editor 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 them, and a comprehensive resource list of the many magazines and journals, both large and small, that publish short fiction.