My story “Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska” will be appearing in the 2008 O. Henry Prize Stories on May 6th. I swear that if you buy it, you will grow or shrink four inches, wherever on your body you want.
“The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008″ (Anchor, $14.95 paper) hits bookshelves, with a year’s worth of outstanding short fiction by returning champs Alice Munro and William Trevor, as well as new contenders such as Alexi Zentner and Tony Tulathimutte. – Chicago Tribune
“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
“The Necessity of Certain Behaviors”
Shannon Cain, New England Review
“A Game of Cards”
Rose Tremain, The Paris Review
“Touch”
Alexi Zentner, Tin House
“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, 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
“The Little Boy”
Mary Gaitskill, Harper’s Magazine
“A Little History of Modern Music”
William H. Gass, Conjunctions
