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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
Winners
Recommended Stories
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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