“Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction.”
—The Atlantic Monthly
Introduction
Laura Furman, Series Editor
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, The Threepenny Review
The Bullock Run
Roger McDonald, Mãnoa
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
Reading The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on “Touch” by Alexi Zenter
David Leavitt on “What Do You Want to Know For?” by Alice Munro
David Means on “Folie à Deux” by William Trevor
Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
The Writers on Their Work
Recommended Stories 2008
Publications Submitted
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