The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 : Including Stories by Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, and Lily Tuck

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, and Jim Shepard) on their favourite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Laura J. Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the O. Henry Awards prize story collection. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review. She has written three collections of stories (The Glass House, Watch Time Fly, and Drinking with the Cook), two novels (The Shadow Line and Tuxedo Park), and a memoir (Ordinary Paradise). She founded American Short Fiction, which was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. "The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls' school. Also included are the editor's introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, and Jim Shepard) on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines." -- Publisher's description Your duck is my duck / Deborah Eisenberg Sugarcane / Derek Palacio The summer people / Kelly Link Leaving Maverley / Alice Munro White carnations / Polly Rosenwaike Sail / Tash Aw Anecdotes / Ann Beattie Lay my head / L. Annette Binder He knew / Donald Antrim The visitor / Asako Serizawa Where do you go? / Samar Farah Fitzgerald Aphrodisiac / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Two opinions / Joan Silber They find the drowned / Melinda Moustakis The Mexican / George McCormick Tiger / Nalini Jones Pérou / Lily Tuck Sinkhole / Jamie Quatro The history of girls / Ayşe Papatya Bucak The particles / Andrea Barrett Reading the O. Henry Prize stories Writing the O. Henry Prize stories. __The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013__ gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, and Jim Shepard) on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Contains a collection of short stories by various authors, which were awarded the O. Henry award in 2013, and includes works by Alice Munro, Andrea Barrett, Nalini Jones, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala