Includes bibliographical references (pages [380]-383).
Contents:
"The sign" from Anything is possible / Elizabeth Strout -- Winners, finalists, and judges of the Story Prize (2004-2018) "The book of miracles" from The dew breaker / Edwidge Danticat -- "The postman's cottage" from The hill road / Patrick O'Keeffe -- "My podiatrist tells me a story about a boy and a dog" from The stories of Mary Gordon / Mary Gordon -- "The zero meter diving team" from Like you'd understand, anyway / Jim Shepard -- "Bullet in the brain" from Our story begins / Tobias Wolff -- "Saleema" from In other rooms, other wonders / Daniyal Mueenuddin -- "Memory wall" from Memory wall / Anthony Doerr -- "Snowmen" from In the penny arcade / Steven Millhauser -- "Ghost, cowboys" from Battleborn / Claire Vaye Watkins -- "Tenth of December" from Tenth of December / George Saunders -- "Something amazing" from Thunderstruck & other stories / Elizabeth McCracken -- "Nirvana" from Fortune smiles / Adam Johnson -- "How she remembers it" from For a little while / Rick Bass -- "The sign" from Anything is possible / Elizabeth Strout -- Winners, finalists, and judges of the Story Prize (2004-2018)
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.
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