The best short stories 2023 : the O. Henry Prize winners /
guest editor: Lauren Groff ; series editor: Jenny Minton Quigley.
- xix, 411 pages ; 21 cm
"An Anchor Books original 2023"--Title page verso.
Foreword / Introduction / Office hours / Man mountain / Me, Rory and Aurora / The complete / The haunting of Hajji Hotak / Wisconsin / Ira & the whale / The commander's teeth / The mad people of Paris / Snake & submarine / The mother / The hollow / Dream man / The locksmith / After hours at the Acacia Park pool / Happy is a doing word / Elision / Xífù / Temporary housing / The Blackhills / The O. Henry Prize winners 2023: the writers on their work. Jenny Minton Quigley -- Lauren Groff -- Ling Ma Catherine Lacey Jonas Eika, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg Gabriel Smith Jamil Jan Kochai Lisa Taddeo Rachel B. Glaser Naomi Shuyama-Gómez Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead Shelby Kinney-Lang Jacob M'hango 'Pemi Aguda Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Francisca González-Arias Grey Wolfe LaJoie Kirstin Valdez Quade Arinze Ifeakandu David Ryan K-Ming Chang Kathleen Alcott Eamon McGuinness (The Atlantic) -- (Astra) -- (Granta) -- (The Drift) -- (The New Yorker) -- (The Sewanee Review) -- (The Paris Review) -- (Michigan Quarterly Review) -- (Southwest Review) -- (ZYZZYVA) -- (Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, Short Story Day Africa and Catalyst Press) -- (Zoetrope) -- (Freeman's) -- (The Threepenny Review) -- (American Short Fiction) -- (The Kenyon Review) -- (New England Review) -- (Electric Literature) -- (Harper's Magazine) -- (The Stinging Fly) --
"Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired their work, and an extensive and useful directory of magazines and literary websites that publish short fiction"--Page 4 of cover.