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What does it mean to be included in the O. Henry Prize Stories? How does an author refine their art? We've given the O. Henry Prize-winning authors free rein to share their thoughts on these questions and others, and the result is a rare treat. (Browse our archive of featured authors from The O. Henry Prize Stories.) | |
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Adam Atlas "New Year's Weekend on the Hand Surgery Ward, Old Pilgrims' Hospital, Naples, Italy" 2011 PEN/O. Henry Recommended Story |
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I am deeply grateful to series editor Laura Furman for honoring the piece as the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Recommended Story. Not only does such recognition bring pleasure, but also the possibility of more people being brought to the work, a true prize indeed.
Click here to read his short story. |
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Fiction is a mystery to me and I have little to say regarding its craft. But this is what I want when I read it: I want to be moved by the author's feeling. I want that feeling to be transmitted in exact and singular speech, wrought precisely as the feeling commands. I want this speech to take me—not by the hand, but by the heart—to the truth of what we must do, in any given moment, to keep ourselves alive. |
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Adam Atlas was born in 1976 in Louisville, Kentucky. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. |
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I am working very hard on a novel. |
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