Bibliograph

The Story Prize, 15 Years of Great Short Fiction

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The Story Prize, 15 Years of Great Short Fiction

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

The Story Prize

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1085174034

Sub title

15 Years of Great Short Fiction

Summary

This anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story Prize and includes one story from each of the annual winning collections, beginning with Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and concluding with Elizabeth Strout's Anything Is Possible.The founder of The Story Prize, Julie Lindsey, and its director, Larry Dark, created this award to address the lack of one specifically for collections of stories. Together they choose three finalists from the previous year's publications, which are sent to three judges--an author, a bookseller or librarian, and a critic or editor--who, independently of one another, relay their choices. The prize is then presented at an annual celebration in New York, where the finalists read from their books and then discuss their work with Dark. Excerpts from these interviews--or, in a few cases, the judges' citations--introduce each story in the book. The authors chose the stories included to read at the annual Story Prize event

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Larry Dark -- The book of miracles / Edwidge Danticat -- The postman's cottage / Patrick O'Keeffe -- My podiatrist tells me a story about a boy and a dog / Mary Gordon -- The zero meter diving team / Jim Shepard -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Saleema / Daniyal Mueenuddin -- Memory wall / Anthony Doerr -- Snowmen / Steven Millhauser -- Ghost, cowboys / Claire Vaye Watkins -- Tenth of December / George Saunders -- Something amazing / Elizabeth McCracken -- Nirvana / Adam Johnson -- How she remembers it / Rick Bass -- The sign / Elizabeth Strout

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