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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 - Winning Stories "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 *Publisher's Note: Due to a publishing error, the story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" by Tony Tulathimutte was not printed in its most recent version in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008. Click here to read the correct version in its entirety. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 - Recommended Stories The task of picking the twenty O. Henry Prize Stories each year is at its most difficult when it comes to the end, and there are more than twenty stories in the pile of admirable, interesting stories. Once the final choice is made, the stories remaining are our Recommended Stories, listed, along with the place of publication, in the hope that O. Henry readers will seek them out and enjoy them. We're pleased to include for the first time interviews with several of the recommended authors--click on the author name links below to read their Author Spotlights. "Generation" Kimberly Ford The Threepenny Review "L. DeBard and Aliette" Lauren Groff The Atlantic Monthly "The Swim Team" Miranda July Harper's Magazine "Drift and Swerve" Samuel Ligon Alaska Quarterly Review "The Wolf Story" Irina Reyn One Story "The Barn at the End of Our Term" Karen Russell Granta "The Death of My Mad Uncle" Andao Tian Natural Bridge |
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