>The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008

>My copy hasn’t arrived yet, but I’m looking forward to reading The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008

“A Composer and His Parakeets”
Ha Jin
Zoetrope

“Other People’s Deaths”
Lore Segal
The New Yorker

“Village 113”
Anthony Doerr
Tin House

“A Change in Fashion”
Steven Millhauser
Harper’s Magazine

“The Transitional Object”
Sheila Kohler
Boulevard

“On the Lake”
Olaf Olafsson
Zoetrope

“Taiping”
Brittani Sonnenberg
xconnect

“What Do You Want to Know For?”
Alice Munro
The American Scholar
Juror Favorite: David Leavitt

“The Necessity of Certain Behaviors”
Shannon Cain
New England Review

“A Game of Cards”
Rose Tremain
The Paris Review

“Touch”
Alexi Zentner
Tin House
Juror Favorite: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Bad Neighbors”
Edward P. Jones
The New Yorker

“Every Move You Make”
David Malouf
Granta

“Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska”*
Tony Tulathimutte
The Threepenny Review

“The Bullock Run”
Roger McDonald
Manoa

“Prison”
Yiyun Li
Tin House

“Bye-bye Natalia”
Michel Faber
Granta

“Folie à Deux”
William Trevor
The New Yorker
Juror Favorite: David Means

“The Little Boy”
Mary Gaitskill
Harper’s Magazine

“A Little History of Modern Music”
William H. Gass
Conjunctions

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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