The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

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, €œThe Gun,€ Granta
Stephen Dixon, €œTalk,€ The American Reader
Tessa Hadley, €œValentine,€ The New Yorker
Olivia Clare, €œP©tur,€ Ecotone
David Bradley, €œYou Remember The Pin Mill,€ Narrative
Kirstin Valdez Quade, €œNemecia,€ Narrativemagazine.com
Dylan Landis, €œTrust,€ Tin House
Allison Alsup, €œOld Houses,€ New Orleans Review
Halina Duraj, €œFatherland,€ Harvard Review
Chanelle Benz, €œWest of the Known,€ The American Reader  
William Trevor, €œThe Women,€ The New Yorker
Colleen Morrissey, €œGood Faith,€ The Cincinnati Review
Robert Anthony Siegel, €œThe Right Imaginary Person,€ Tin House
Louise Erdrich, €œNero,€ The New Yorker
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, €œA Golden Light,€ Threepenny Review
Chinelo Okparanta, €œFairness,€ Subtropics
Kristen Iskandrian, €œThe Inheritors,€ Tin House
Michael Parker, €œDeep Eddy,€ Southwest Review
Maura Stanton, €œOh Shenandoah,€ New England Review
Laura van den Berg, €œOpa-Locka,€ The Southern Review
 
The Jurors on Their Favorites: Tash Aw, James Lasdun, Joan Silber
The Writers on Their Work
Publications Submitted


From the Trade Paperback edition.