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href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-less-of-moore.html'>Getting Less of Moore</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5588499334229157755' itemprop='description articleBody'> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oA5M9xtDzt1Z2Vlva3H3ewXYgNoCDoi4ZgyysFyLbZxZNqVpvpRxTXCJGMp7PmyasW_z0GvBNYxnOv4Qb6MDV9EbRrh4o4rZ7vWeSYGoisZBcjWRM6mRJI-zMhwpeGusIp5vFDJpmO-s/s1600-h/Moore.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285285602794102034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oA5M9xtDzt1Z2Vlva3H3ewXYgNoCDoi4ZgyysFyLbZxZNqVpvpRxTXCJGMp7PmyasW_z0GvBNYxnOv4Qb6MDV9EbRrh4o4rZ7vWeSYGoisZBcjWRM6mRJI-zMhwpeGusIp5vFDJpmO-s/s200/Moore.jpg" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 130px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" /></a>Here's a book you won't see in U.S. bookstores: <em>The Collected Stories</em> of Lorrie Moore. The hardcover volume, published by Faber and Faber in the U.K. in early 2008, includes all of Moore's previously published stories, plus three that haven't appeared in any collection: "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106fi_fiction">Paper Losses</a>," "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/17/050117fi_fiction">The Juniper Tree</a>," and "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/22/031222fi_fiction">Debarking</a>." Amazon.com (U.S.) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/057123934X/ref=dp_olp_3">lists</a> the book, but the only available copies are from a third party for the hefty price of $129.77. In the U.K., it <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collected-Stories-Lorrie-Moore/dp/057123934X">lists</a> for £20 (about $29 at current exchange rates) and on Amazon there it sells for £12 ($17.50).<br /><div></div><br /><div>I had an e-mail exchange with Lorrie Moore earlier in the year, and she told me about <em>The Collected Stories</em>, which, alas, isn't eligible for The Story Prize because it's not published in the U.S. It came to my attention again when I saw that British <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307265227">short story writer</a> Helen Simpson had named it in The Independent's yearend <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-of-the-year-an-allstar-lineup-of-writers-give-their-verdict-on-2008s-best-1205784.html">survey</a> of 2008's best books.</div><div> </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm not sure why Moore's U.S. publisher, Knopf, didn't put out <em>The Collected Stories</em> here--I imagine a lot of readers would love to replace their tattered copies of <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307277299">Self-Help</a></em>, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307277282"><em>Anagrams</em></a><em> </em>(published as a novel but now out of the closet as a book of connected stories), <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0375719165">Like Life</a></em>, and <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0312241223"><em>Birds of America</em> </a>with a single volume. It's been ten years since Moore's last book<em>.</em> I guess we'll just have to be patient and wait.</div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-less-of-moore.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-less-of-moore.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-29T12:23:00-05:00'>12:23 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/5588499334229157755' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5588499334229157755&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5588499334229157755&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5588499334229157755&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5588499334229157755&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5588499334229157755&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5588499334229157755&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Lorrie%20Moore' rel='tag'>Lorrie Moore</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20story%20collections' rel='tag'>short story collections</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, December 26, 2008</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKhPq22nFBmPXn2JFtz7f1ZR5PC0HQ9K4_-H0grclGPkC7t4JOViI2gTGIeizO3Dq2E_yFXe4fG6xwiEeQsXm-N7lQtqNix9J6P5C7sDNjBCOKm_ga4wZFMjdb13sn0guSnUPU6Yi6Teq/s320/march+calender.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='3349417074049827588' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='3349417074049827588'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-prize-event-march-4-circle-it-on.html'>The Story Prize Event. March 4. Circle It on Your 2009 Calendar</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3349417074049827588' itemprop='description articleBody'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKhPq22nFBmPXn2JFtz7f1ZR5PC0HQ9K4_-H0grclGPkC7t4JOViI2gTGIeizO3Dq2E_yFXe4fG6xwiEeQsXm-N7lQtqNix9J6P5C7sDNjBCOKm_ga4wZFMjdb13sn0guSnUPU6Yi6Teq/s1600-h/march+calender.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284250641364187522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKhPq22nFBmPXn2JFtz7f1ZR5PC0HQ9K4_-H0grclGPkC7t4JOViI2gTGIeizO3Dq2E_yFXe4fG6xwiEeQsXm-N7lQtqNix9J6P5C7sDNjBCOKm_ga4wZFMjdb13sn0guSnUPU6Yi6Teq/s320/march+calender.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" /></a>We know how fast your calendars fill up, so be sure to mark this date when you plan ahead for 2009:<br /><br />The Story Prize event will be on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20080304.html"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">March 4</span></a> at the New School's Tishman auditorium in New York City, starting at 7:30 p.m.<br /><br />That night, each of the three authors chosen as finalists will <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/02/27/Story_Prize">read</a> from his or her work, followed by an onstage interview. At the end of the evening we'll present this year's winner with The Story Prize. More details will follow when we announce the finalists in a couple of weeks. Resolve to be there if you can. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-prize-event-march-4-circle-it-on.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-prize-event-march-4-circle-it-on.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-26T17:38:00-05:00'>5:38 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/3349417074049827588' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3349417074049827588&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3349417074049827588&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3349417074049827588&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3349417074049827588&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3349417074049827588&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3349417074049827588&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/event' rel='tag'>event</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20story%20prize' rel='tag'>the story prize</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, December 22, 2008</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='7121912073938860312' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='7121912073938860312'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/video-from-national-book-awards-5-under.html'>Video from the National Book Award's 5 Under 35 Reading</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7121912073938860312' itemprop='description articleBody'> The National Book Awards has posted video from their <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/09/2-out-of-5-under-35.html">5 Under 35</a> reading on Nov. 17.<br /><br />Francine Prose introduces Sana Krasikov, author of the story collection <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385524391"><span style="font-style: italic;">One More Year,</span></a> and tells of meeting Krasikov and short story writer <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812973334">Yiyun Li</a> at the Iowa Writers Workshop a few years back. Then Krasikov reads from her story, <a href="http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=387">"The Alternate."</a><br /><br /><object height="302" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2490311&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2490311&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="302" width="400"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/2490311">Sana Krasikov and Francine Prose @ 2008 5 Under 35 Celebration</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user720533">National Book Foundation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span><br /><br />A typically intense Mary Gaitskill introduces Nam Le, author of the story collection <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307268082"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Boat</span></a>, and offers strong praise for the title story of the collection before Le takes the stage and reads from a different story, <a href="http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=305">"Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice."</a><br /><br /><object height="302" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2490059&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2490059&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="302" width="400"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/2490059">Nam Le and Mary Gaitskill @ 2008 5 Under 35 Celebration</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user720533">National Book Foundation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span><br /><br />Both of these stories, as it happens, were first published in <a href="http://www.all-story.com/index.cgi">Zoetrope: All-Story</a>, and both authors studied at <a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiww/news/5_under_30_2008.html">Iowa</a>. Unfortunately, Jim Shepard, <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/news.html">winner</a> of The Story Prize earlier this year, was not on hand to introduce his choice, Fiona Maazel's novel <span style="font-style: italic;">Last Chance</span>. 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style="font-style: italic;">The Watch</span></a>.<br /><br /> - The results, not necessarily final, of our Nov. 20 <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/author-introductions-to-story.html">poll</a> (How do you feel about short story collections that have introductions?) are:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">43%</span> take it on a case by case basis.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">22%</span> like introductions.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">19%</span> don't approve of them.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">11%</span> voted for Barack Obama (even though he has nothing to do with the question).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 5%</span> are indifferent.</blockquote> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9OSoIw5VrxWLBXtpwlBbUEVHoghS_4cfcsAwl6Ojxsnx6xDwQe5RKVXZxUhlqijtg2l__0xK_Uk_rwlHvP6FgINI2sap4yrVq6WjC6s6r7DLgpRt8L25DIFkk7Mmq2e1RWm0Yi2s1-ZoK/s1600-h/bookie.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280031375995231314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9OSoIw5VrxWLBXtpwlBbUEVHoghS_4cfcsAwl6Ojxsnx6xDwQe5RKVXZxUhlqijtg2l__0xK_Uk_rwlHvP6FgINI2sap4yrVq6WjC6s6r7DLgpRt8L25DIFkk7Mmq2e1RWm0Yi2s1-ZoK/s200/bookie.jpg" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 151px" /></a>If British bookmakers were to take notice of The Story Prize and lay <a href="http://www.mybetting.co.uk/booker-prize-betting.htm">odds</a> on our finalists (as they do for the Booker prize), I'm sure the three short story collections that most frequently appear on 2008 best books lists would have the best odds. Going by the final tally of several lists, those would be: Jhumpa Lahiri's <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Unaccustomed Earth,</span> Elizabeth Strout's <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Olive Kitteridge, </span>and Nam Le's <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Boat</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">.</span><br /><br />The Story Prize, however, doesn't choose its top three books by critical consensus. Rather, we read every one of the 73 books entered for The Story Prize and choose based on our own reading of those books. I get the sense that a lot of commentators, columnists, writers, and reviewers didn't read all that many story collections. And I'm sure some excellent collections probably didn't get a very wide reading.<br /><br />In any event, we won't even know which three short story collections we're picking as Story Prize finalists until Julie and I meet to hash it out in early January. Soon after that, we'll also announce our list of other notable collections. So hold your bets.<br /><div><div></div><br /><div>For the tally below, I consulted 18 sources that named a total of 22 books. I counted inclusion in both the <em>New York Times Sunday Book Review</em> 100 notable books list and their five best books list because those appeared in separate issues. And I stopped counting as of Dec. 14. No doubt there will be more best of 2008 lists, but this isn't exactly scientific anyway; it just gives a sense of the critical consensus based on this sampling. The numbers on the left below represent how many mentions each book received. Here's the complete tally: </div><br /><div>12 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Unaccustomed Earth</span> by Jhumpa Lahiri<br />10 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Olive Kitteridge</span> by Elizabeth Strout<br />9 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Boat</span> by Nam Le<br />4 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Say You’re One of Them</span> by Uwem Akpan<br />4 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dictation</span> by Cynthia Ozick<br />3 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Ms. Hempel Chronicles</span> by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum<br />3 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dangerous Laughter </span>by Steven Millhauser<br />3 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Knockemstiff</span> by Donald Ray Pollock<br />3 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Fine Just the Way It Is</span> by Annie Proulx<br />3 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Our Story Begins</span> by Tobias Wolff<br />2 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Yesterday's Weather </span>by Anne Enright<br />2 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Pretty Monsters</span> by Kelly Link<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Better Angel</span> by Chris Adrian<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The View from the Seventh Layer</span> by Kevin Brockmeier<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Lost in Uttar Pradesh</span> by Evan Connell<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Deportees</span> by Roddy Doyle<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The People on Privilege Hill</span> by Jane Gardam<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">I See You Everywhere</span> By Julia Glass<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Foreigners</span> by Caryl Phillips<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Size of the World</span> by Joan Silber<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love</span> by Lara Vapnyar<br />1 - <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Farewell Navigator</span> by Leni Zumas<br /><br /><strong>Sources</strong> (with links to the original TSP posts)<strong>:</strong> <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-end-of-year-listmaking-begin.html">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/atlantics-best-books-list-sets-sail.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Atlantic,</span></a> <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-best-books-no-more-best-books.html">Barnes & Noble Review</a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-best-books-no-more-best-books.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Bloomsbury Review</span></a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-collections-keep-popping-up-on.html">The Christian Science Monitor</a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-best-books-no-more-best-books.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Library Journal</span></a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-end-of-year-listmaking-begin.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span></a><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-collections-keep-popping-up-on.html">The Los Angeles Times</a>, </span><a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/few-among-millions.html">The Millions</a> (and <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-best-books-no-more-best-books.html">here</a><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">), <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/twenty-seventh-city-weighs-in.html">New York</a> </span>magazine<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">, The New York Times Sunday Book Review</span> (100 <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-has-spoken.html">notable books</a> and <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/unaccustomed-laughter.html">top ten books</a>), <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-collections-keep-popping-up-on.html">NPR</a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-end-of-year-listmaking-begin.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Publishers Weekly</span></a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/short-story-collections-build-strong.html">Salon</a>, <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-best-books-no-more-best-books.html">Shelf Awareness</a>, the <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/twenty-seventh-city-weighs-in.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</span></a>, <em><a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/twenty-seventh-city-weighs-in.html">Time</a></em> magazine, the <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-best-books-no-more-best-books.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Village Voice</span></a>, and <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-collections-keep-popping-up-on.html"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Washington Post</span></a>. </div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span 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Among the <em>Villiage Voice</em>'s <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-12-10/books/the-best-books-of-2008/2">picks</a> for best books of 2008 is <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-04-01/books/souls-twisting-in-the-wind/">reviewer</a> Lenora Todaro's choice of Jhumpa Lahiri's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307265739"><em>Unaccustomed Earth</em></a>.<br /><br /><div>The <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6620714.html?desc=topstory">Library Journal</a> site lists three story collections--<a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0316113786"><em>Say You're One of Them</em></a> by Uwem Akpan, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307268082"><em>The Boat</em></a> by Nam Le, and <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812971835"><em>Olive Kitteridge</em></a> by Elizabeth Strout--among its 37 picks, fic and non.</div><div></div><br /><div>Shelf Awareness asked five people (so far) for their top 10 <a href="http://news.shelf-awareness.com/nview.jsp?appid=411&j=593751#2621701">books</a> and one of them, Harvey Freedenberg, named Lahiri's <em>Unaccustomed Earth</em>.</div><div></div><br /><div>In the Readerville <a href="http://forum.readerville.com/viewthread/45/P210/">forum</a> discussing yearend best books lists, Richard posts that <span style="font-style: italic;">Bloomsbury Review</span> contributing editor Jeff Biggers has named Annie Proulx’s <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1416571667">Fine Just the Way It Is</a></em> as an honorable mention for his book of the year choice.<br /><br />In The Millions, fiction writer Brian Evenson <a href="http://www.themillionsblog.com/2008/12/year-in-reading-brian-evenson.html">lists</a> Kelly Link's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0670010905">Pretty Monsters</a> among his choices.<br /><br />The Barnes & Noble Review (which I confess I didn't know existed) lists Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout as a best book choice of contributor and <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?note=16288404">reviewer</a> David Abrams.<br /><br />There may be more to come, but that's it for me. 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float: right; height: 284px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a>One of the nicest people in publishing and a truly great editor, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103456.html">Carol Houck Smith</a>, died on Nov. 29 in her Manhattan apartment at the age of 85. She worked at W.W. Norton, where her authors included Andrea Barrett, Ron Carlson, Joan Silber, and many others.<br /> <br /> The picture to the right is from the reception following The Story Prize event in February <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/photo_2006.asp">2007</a>.<br /> Carol had particularly wanted to be there that year because one of the finalists was Rick Bass, whose first short story collection, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0393311358"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Watch</span></a>, she had edited.<br /> <br /> Carol was a supporter of The Story Prize from the start, responding with warm encouragement to the announcement of the launch in January 2004, attending a small cocktail party for editors and publishers that spring, and coming to the first event in 2005, in support of her author, Joan Silber, who was a finalist for <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0393326871"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ideas of Heaven</span></a>--a great book made better through Carol's taste and wisdom, as everything she edited was.<br /> <br /> I had first spoken with Carol several times in early 2001, when I was putting together <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385498784"><span style="font-style: italic;">Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards</span></a>. I had decided to include three novellas* in that volume, one of which was Andrea Barrett's "Servants of the Map," the title story of a collection set for publication in 2002--several months after the O. Henry Awards volume would be out. To my surprise, Andrea Barrett informed me, a few days after I called to tell her that I'd chosen her story for the O. Henry Awards, that her publisher, W.W. Norton, did not want to give permission to publish "Servants of the Map" because they were concerned that it would cannibalize sales of Barrett's collection. In four previous years, I had never had an author or publisher turn down a chance to be in the anthology.<br /> <br /> Andrea suggested I speak with her editor. So I called Carol Houck Smith and had a long conversation in which I did my best to persuade her that inclusion in the O. Henry Awards would likely help <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0393323573"><span style="font-style: italic;">Servants of the Map</span></a> reach an even larger audience (a somewhat shaky argument because after winning the <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1996.html">National Book Award</a> for her story collection <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0393316001">Ship Fever</a> in 1996, Barrett's books no doubt outsold the O. Henry Awards by a wide margin). Carol explained Norton's position, but she also listened with an open mind--something rare in my experience. In the end, Carol convinced Norton to allow us to include the story. I think what may have persuaded her wasn't my arguments but my passion for that particular story, which matched her own.<br /> <br /> What I didn't know until later, was that Carol had "retired" several years before this. That didn't stop her from going to work every day and continuing to edit and nurture writers' careers. She was, throughout her career, a tireless advocate for poetry and fiction, a frequent presence at writing conferences, someone who constantly sought out and nurtured new talent, and a trusted editor and friend to many writers. Carol, we're going to miss you--the literary world is going to miss you.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 85%;">* The other two novellas/long stories that year were Mary Swan's "<a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812966503">The Deep</a>" and the full version of George Saunders' "<a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1573228725">Pastoralia</a>," both of which also ended up being the title stories of collections.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 85%;"></span><br /> Addendum: Here's <a href="http://blog.semcoop.com/2008/12/12/carol-houck-smith-remembered/">more</a>.</div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/carol-houck-smith-well-miss-you.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/carol-houck-smith-well-miss-you.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-12T05:30:00-05:00'>5:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/5977499055146586501' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5977499055146586501&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5977499055146586501&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5977499055146586501&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Math professor and novelist Manil Suri <a href="http://www.themillionsblog.com/2008/12/year-in-reading-manil-suri.html">mentions </a>a highly touted 2009 short story collection (due out in February) that he received an advanced copy of (for blurbing purposes), Daniyal Mueenuddin's <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0393068009">In Other Rooms, Other Wonders</a>, </em>as well as Elizabeth Strout's <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812971835">Olive Kitteridege</a></em>. 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" /></a>Salon asked a dozen writers to name their <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2008/12/09/authors_picks/index.html">favorite</a> books of 2008 and two have chosen short story collections. Curtis Sittenfeld has picked Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0151014965"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ms. Hempel Chronicles </span></a>and Meg Wolitzer has selected Elizabeth Strout's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812971835"><span style="font-style: italic;">Olive Kitteridge</span></a> (which is moving up along the outside post as a dark horse contender in my overall tally of yearend best mentions).<br /><br />In the case of both of these books, by the way, the publishers are rather cagey, identifying them on the cover as neither novels nor short story collections--which is what they are in my estimation. But this is nothing new. In the first year of The Story Prize, all three of our finalists (<a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1400034291"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Dew Breaker</span></a> by Edwidge Danticat, <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0156032025">The Circus in Winter</a> </span>by Cathy Day, and <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0393326871"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ideas of Heaven</span></a> by Joan Silber) fell into the category of connected stories or novels in stories and only one (Silber's) had the word stories on the cover. Why fudge it? Because novels supposedly sell better than story collections. It's kind of like those vitamins for kids--if they think it's a gummy bear, maybe they'll eat it. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/short-story-collections-build-strong.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/short-story-collections-build-strong.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-09T16:01:00-05:00'>4:01 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/5941188276985945776' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5941188276985945776&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5941188276985945776&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=5941188276985945776&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 138px;" /></a>Harking back to a September TSP <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/09/mix-books-mixed-feelings.html">post</a> and a guest <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/09/guest-post-paul-vidich-on-digital.html">post</a> from writer and one-time music industry executive Paul Vidich, the subject of assembling digital custom anthologies has once again come up. As Leon Neyfach <a href="http://www.observer.com/mobile/article/79900">reports</a> on the New York Oberver's Web site, as part of Penguin Group USA's <a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/whatsnext/index.html">Penguin 2.0</a> initiative, in 2009 customers will be able to choose from stories, essays, poems, and other "standalone texts" to create custom-made collections, then print them on demand. The article goes on to say:<br /><p></p><blockquote><p>"Taking sites like <a href="http://anthologybuilder.com/">AnthologyBuilder.com</a> and iTunes as inspiration, Mr. Gomez said, Penguin hopes the 'Custom' program will tap into people's desire 'to remix a little and to shuffle their playlists.' He cautioned, however, that he 'would never want to break apart an entire book' and thereby render the full-length volume obsolete the way iTunes has done to the 74-minute LP." </p></blockquote>Surely, he must know that if this catches on, it could well deconstruct short story collections. As I said in September:<br /><blockquote>"Getting back to the iTunes analogy, I was recently thinking it would be great if you could make your own anthology of your favorite stories, poems, essays, etc., and give it to friends in the form of a bound volume, the way you make a mix tape or mix CD. Call it a mix book (a term already <a href="http://www.mixbook.com/">taken</a>)."</blockquote>Could this be the tipping point? AnthologyBuilder.com seems to offer mostly science fiction stories written by little known authors. Penguin Classics has an enormous <a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/classics/index.html">backlist</a>, including a lot of short fiction by authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Rudyard Kipling, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence, Jack London, Somerset Maugham, Herman Mellville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, and collections by more contemporary writers including Dorothy Allison, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, and Stephen King. Now <span style="font-style: italic;">that's</span> a list worth reintermediating. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/mix-books-redux-march-of-penguin.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/mix-books-redux-march-of-penguin.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-09T12:56:00-05:00'>12:56 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/1246037848421274251' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1246037848421274251&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1246037848421274251&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1246037848421274251&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 200px;" /></a>The <span style="font-style: italic;">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</span> <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/books/story/CB7E437E8F6170E2862575160076E68F?OpenDocument">lists</a> 32 notable 2008 works of fiction including a mere three short story collections:<br /><br />Kevin Brockmeier's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0375425301"><span style="font-style: italic;">The View from the Seventh Layer</span></a> (I knew this would make some of the lists)<br />Jhumpa Lahiri's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307265739"><span style="font-style: italic;">Unaccustomed Earth</span></a> (again)<br />Cynthia Ozick'z <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0547054001"><span style="font-style: italic;">Dictation</span></a><br /><br />And <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0312420147">St. Louis</a> area booksellers that the <span style="font-style: italic;">Post-Dispatch</span> polled list one collection:<br /><br />Kelly Link's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0670010905"><span style="font-style: italic;">Pretty Monsters</span></a> (which <a href="http://www.myspace.com/subterraneanbooks">Subterranean Books</a> chose)<br /><br />Salon lists zero short story collections among it's five fiction choices.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">New York</span> magazine <a href="http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2008/52752/index1.html">lists</a> Nam Le's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Boat</span> as its Best Debut book of the year, but story collections are a no show in it's top five fiction books.<br /><br />(Thanks to <a href="http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/subscribe.html">Publishers Lunch</a> for the links.)<br /><br />Addendum (with a nod to <a href="http://forum.readerville.com/viewthread/45/P180/#27628">Readerville</a>): Lahiri's <span style="font-style: italic;">Unaccustomed Earth</span> is No. 5 on <span style="font-style: italic;">Time</span>'s top ten fiction <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1864238_1864243,00.html">list</a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/twenty-seventh-city-weighs-in.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/twenty-seventh-city-weighs-in.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-08T22:24:00-05:00'>10:24 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/2613950625675624038' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2613950625675624038&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2613950625675624038&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2613950625675624038&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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So say hello to some little bests.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Los Angeles Times</span> <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/12/la-times-favori.html#more">list</a> includes six story collections out of 25 fiction and poetry books (only two of which are the latter). They are:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ms. Hempel Chronicles</span> by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Unaccustomed Earth</span> by Jhumpa Lahiri<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Boat</span> by Nam Le<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dictation</span> by Cynthia Ozick<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Knockemstiff</span> by Donald Ray Pollock<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Our Story Begins</span> by Tobias Wolff<br /><br />None of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Washington Post'</span>s top five fiction books are short story collections, but to their credit, the longer best books <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/index.html">list</a> includes a short story category with nine seclections:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Say You’re One of Them</span> by Uwem Akpan<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Yesterday's Weather </span>by Anne Enright<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Unaccustomed Earth</span> by Jhumpa Lahiri<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dangerous Laughter</span> by Steven Millhauser<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Foreigners</span> by Caryl Phillips<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dictation</span> by Cynthia Ozick<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Size of the World</span> by Joan Silber<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Poe's Children</span> an anthology edited by Peter Straub<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Our Story Begins</span> by Tobias Wolff<br />plus: <span style="font-style: italic;">Olive Kitteridge </span>by Elizabeth Strout<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>(which they wrongly list as a novel)<br /><br />The Christian Science Monitor (now Web only) also has a Best Short Stories of 2008 <a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/12/03/best-short-stories-of-2008/">list</a>, bless their hearts:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Deportees</span> by Roddy Doyle<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Unaccustomed Earth </span>by Jhumpa Lahiri<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dictation </span>by Cynthia Ozick<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Olive Kitteridge</span> by Elizabeth Strout<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Boat</span> by Nam Le<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Say You’re One of Them</span> by Uwem Akpan<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The People on Privilege Hill</span> by Jane Gardam<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love</span> by Lara Vapnyar<br />(They also list another book that could be read as a story collection:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I See You Everywhere </span>By Julia Glass)<br /><br />One story collection makes Alan Cheuse's idiosyncratic <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97276209">list</a> of the six best fiction books on the NPR Web site: <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Lost in Uttar Pradesh</span> by Evan Connell<br /><br />Some of my favorites aren't on any of these lists. Sometime soon, I'll do a tally and ranking of all the short story collections that made end of year lists. Could that possibly predict the finalists for The Story Prize? 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times Sunday Book Review</span> has announced it's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/10Best-t.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=books&adxnnlx=1228439072-wu3lORxGEGus76ViMcChRA">top ten books</a> of 2008, culled from it's larger list of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html">100 books</a>, as previously mentioned <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-has-spoken.html">here</a>. 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 132px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" /></a>Congratulations to Hannah Tinti for winning the Mercantile Library's <a href="http://www.mercantilelibrary.org/awards/sargent.php">John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize</a>* for <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385337458"><em>The Good Thief</em></a><em> </em>(a result I learned on <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/awards/good_thief_steals_the_hearts_of_debut_novel_jury_102114.asp">GalleyCat</a>). As previously noted, Hannah is one of the three <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/story-prize-judges-part-iii-hannah.html">judges</a> for The Story Prize this year, the editor of <em><a href="http://www.one-story.com/">One-Story</a></em>, and the author of a story collection, <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385337441">Animal Crackers</a></em>. It's an accomplished book, well deserving of the honor.<br /><div><div></div><br /><div><span style="font-size:85%;">*Hopefully, the Mercantile Library's Web site will soon reflect this outcome. As of the time this was posted (10:30 on Dec. 2), it hadn't. Speaking of which, the <a href="http://www.reaaward.org/">Rea Award</a> for the Short Story still hasn't posted its latest winner--Amy Hempel--(announced Oct. 8!) on its site. Get on the stick, literary awards! We do our best to post The Story Prize winner within an hour or two of the announcement, and that involves changes throughout our site. We operate on a shoe-string budget, so I know it can be done.</span></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/hannah-tintis-good-thief-makes-off-with.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/hannah-tintis-good-thief-makes-off-with.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-12-02T10:07:00-05:00'>10:07 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/7361519675755168655' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7361519675755168655&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7361519675755168655&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7361519675755168655&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 64px;" /></a><span class="bold"><span>The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Sunday Book Review</span> has published its list of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/books/review/100Notable-t.html?_r=1&8bu=&emc=bub1&pagewanted=all">100 notable books</a> for 2008. Among the 48 fiction and poetry titles (six altogether), eight were short story collections:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Brownrigg-t.html">A BETTER ANGEL: Stories</a></span> <span class="italic">by Chris Adrian</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="italic"><br /></span><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/books/review/Benfey-t.html">YESTERDAY’S WEATHER</a> </span><span class="italic">by Anne Enright<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></span><br /><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Schillinger3-t.html">UNACCUSTOMED EARTH</a> </span><span class="italic">by</span> Jhumpa Lahiri<br /><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/books/review/Kunzru-t.html">THE BOAT</a></span> <span class="italic">by Nam Le</span><br /><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/books/review/Max-t.html">DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories</a> b</span><span class="italic">y Steven Millhauser</span><br /><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Benfey-t.html">DICTATION: A Quartet</a> b</span><span class="italic">y Cynthia Ozick<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/books/review/Carlson-t.html">FINE JUST THE WAY IT IS: Wyoming Stories 3</a> b</span><span class="italic">y Annie Proulx</span><br /><span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/books/review/Schillinger-t.html">OUR STORY BEGINS: New and Selected Stories</a> by</span> <span class="italic">By Tobias Wolff</span><br /><br />In the Times' book blog, <a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/picking-the-notable-books-of-the-year/">Paper Cuts</a>, the editors explain the process: They started with a larger list of books reviewed during the course of the year (actually Dec. 2, 2007 through Nov. 30, 2008) and narrowed it down to 100. Duh!<br /><br />In any event, as far as story collections go, these are very good ones--albeit obvious, mainstream choices. Lahiri's and Le's books <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-end-of-year-listmaking-begin.html">also appeared</a> on the <span style="font-style: italic;">Publishers Weekly</span> and Amazon.com lists. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-has-spoken.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-has-spoken.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-28T17:31:00-05:00'>5:31 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/7086446518002264362' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7086446518002264362&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7086446518002264362&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7086446518002264362&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7086446518002264362&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7086446518002264362&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7086446518002264362&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/best%20books%20lists' rel='tag'>best books lists</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20story%20collections' rel='tag'>short story collections</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20New%20York%20Times' rel='tag'>The New York Times</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, November 27, 2008</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='524405907007745302' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='524405907007745302'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-entries-for-story-prize.html'>The 2008 Entries for The Story Prize</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-524405907007745302' itemprop='description articleBody'> The final tally of books entered for The Story Prize this year is 72, from 55 publishers or imprints, adding up to a total of 973 stories. Between now and the end of the year, Julie Lindsey (the founder of the prize) and I will be doing a lot of reading in preparation for choosing our three finalists, which we'll announce in early January.<br /><br />To select those books, Julie and I will meet and talk about the collections we each like best until we can settle on just three. Sometimes, we end that meeting without making final choices and take another day or so to think it over. It should be especially hard to narrow the field down to three this year because it looks like we'll have at least a dozen serious contenders. Stay tuned. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-entries-for-story-prize.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-entries-for-story-prize.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-27T11:16:00-05:00'>11:16 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/524405907007745302' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=524405907007745302&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=524405907007745302&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=524405907007745302&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" /></a>Australian writer David Malouf is the first winner of the <a href="http://www.dca.wa.gov.au/programs/arts_cultural_dev/australia-asia_literary_award">Australia-Asia Literary Award</a> for <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0375424977"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Collected Stories of David Malouf</span></a>. He is the author of three previous story collections, as well as eight novels, six poetry collections, three nonfiction works, a play, and three opera librettos. The prize pays a generous $110,000 (Australian, which is the equivalent of roughly $62,500 U.S.).<br /><br />The Australia-Asia Literary Award is for: "a book-length work of literary fiction written by an author resident in Australia or Asia, or a work primarily set in Australia or an Asian country. Works must have been either written in, or translated into, English and published in the preceding year." As one of the judges points out, this covers almost two-thirds of the world's population.<br /><br />This is a very interesting book award--smart and daring--on several levels. In the first place, the creator and backer of the prize is the Government of <a href="http://www.dca.wa.gov.au/home">Western Australia's Department of Culture and the Arts</a>. It's hard to imagine any branch of any government in the U.S.--local, state, or federal--creating a literary award and funding it so generously. Secondly, not only print but also electronically published works are eligible--a very progressive notion. And finally, the award accepts entries of works in translation or with multiple authors (up to three). They've even established a split for translated works--$88,000 to the writer and $22,000 to the translator. That's always been one of the hurdles to judging translated work, and I think they are right to give the translator a share of the prize.<br /><br />Another interesting feature is that each of the three judges has posted his or her <a href="http://www.dca.wa.gov.au/programs/arts_cultural_dev/australia-asia_literary_award/aala_judges_comments">notes</a> on the Web site. This is from Pakistani writer (and University of Massachusetts MFA grad) <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0156030533">Kamila Shamsie</a>:<br /><p></p><blockquote>David Malouf is a writer of rare genius. Within the demands of the short story form he can give us a world containing a complex melange of characters, or he can take a single, seemingly insignificant moment and show all the depth and possibility it contains within it. There is tremendous power to his writing—regardless of whether he is describing a boys' encounter with nature or a woman's experience of heartbreak.<br /></blockquote><p></p>     Malouf is a writer I've heard a lot about and, I must confess, I haven't read. We had hoped to consider <span style="font-style: italic;">The Collected Stories</span> for The Story Prize last year, but we didn't receive an entry, probably because we require our finalists to attend our event, which could have been difficult for an Australian writer. In any event, some have compared his stories to those of Alice Munro and William Trevor. So I think it might be a good idea to catch up with his work soon. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-malouf-wins-groundbreaking.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-malouf-wins-groundbreaking.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-22T10:04:00-05:00'>10:04 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/2595048392356149142' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2595048392356149142&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2595048392356149142&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2595048392356149142&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 320px;" /></a>Short story writer <a href="http://www.lannan.org/lf/lit/awards-and-fellowships/P00/12572/#12572">Charles D'Ambrosio</a> has won a $100,000 <a href="http://www.lannan.org/">Lannan Foundation</a> fellowship. <a href="http://www.lannan.org/lf/lit/awards-list/fiction-awards/">Past winners</a> known for writing short stories include: Robert Coover, Edwidge Danticat, Lydia Davis, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Mavis Gallant, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Steven Millhauser, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, George Saunders, Joanna Scott, David Foster Wallace, and John Edgar Wideman. It's a pretty impressive bunch, and that's not even the full list.<br /><div> </div><br /><div>D'Ambrosio well deserves the honor. His 2006 short story collection, <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1400077939">The Dead Fish Museum</a>,</em> which The Story Prize designated as a <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/2006_short_list.html">notable collection</a>, is an excellent book. I particularly liked <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/02/03/030203fi_fiction">"The High Divide,"</a> "Drummond & Sons," and <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/10/11/041011fi_fiction">"The Scheme of Things,"</a> all of which first appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker.</span><br /><br />Authors who write short stories seem to do very well garnering literary honors, including the <a href="http://www.whitingfoundation.org/">Whiting Writers' Awards</a> and the <a href="http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.959463/">MacArthur Foundation</a> fellowships, in addition to the Lannan. It's when it comes to book awards for fiction that novels tend to dominate, which is one reason we created The Story Prize. Clearly, practitioners of the short story form (too bad there's not a term equivalent to "novelist") engender a lot of respect, which nobody can deny.<br /></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/charles-dambrosio-for-hes-jolly-good.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/charles-dambrosio-for-hes-jolly-good.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-21T21:45:00-05:00'>9:45 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/8443197122796247580' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8443197122796247580&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8443197122796247580&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8443197122796247580&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8443197122796247580&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8443197122796247580&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8443197122796247580&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Charles%20D%27Ambrosio' rel='tag'>Charles D'Ambrosio</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Lannan%20Foundation' rel='tag'>Lannan Foundation</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/literary%20awards' rel='tag'>literary awards</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20stories' rel='tag'>short stories</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, November 20, 2008</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUX9miQCbYix4F1raOP4ie0UeVKGMj5Byua6IkB7ImQhlO4ca0_jet1ZJ87d3IlR3LvaKYM7s8Zp-LCiqJO_fDFei7woc1uoJ9V5N9bSMzZT4o1g1upIpDRFMIWRDHGGTIppHq92OAs_8/s200/bld078029.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='7750326803087140488' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='7750326803087140488'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/author-introductions-to-story.html'>Author Introductions to Story Collections? Yea or Nay?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7750326803087140488' itemprop='description articleBody'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUX9miQCbYix4F1raOP4ie0UeVKGMj5Byua6IkB7ImQhlO4ca0_jet1ZJ87d3IlR3LvaKYM7s8Zp-LCiqJO_fDFei7woc1uoJ9V5N9bSMzZT4o1g1upIpDRFMIWRDHGGTIppHq92OAs_8/s1600-h/bld078029.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270729907705237842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaUX9miQCbYix4F1raOP4ie0UeVKGMj5Byua6IkB7ImQhlO4ca0_jet1ZJ87d3IlR3LvaKYM7s8Zp-LCiqJO_fDFei7woc1uoJ9V5N9bSMzZT4o1g1upIpDRFMIWRDHGGTIppHq92OAs_8/s200/bld078029.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 198px;" /></a>Many of the reviews of Stephen King's short story collection, <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1416584087">Just After Sunset</a>,</span> have referred to King's introduction to the collection, which talks about when he was first starting out as a writer and wrote short stories, how he got away from writing them, and how editing <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0618713486"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Best American Short Stories 2007</span></a> reawakened his interest in the form.<br /><br />It's interesting to see how King's own summation has framed much of the discussion of his work. Many reviewers don't know how to talk about a short story collection as a whole. So, in a sense, an introduction can make a collection more reviewer friendly.<br /><br />Still, most of the short story collections that I read don't have introductions. And those that do, tend to veer toward a genre, such as science/speculative fiction, horror/suspense, or mystery/crime. In some cases, a prominent writer in that genre will introduce another writer's collection, for instance George Pelecanos introduces Laura Lippman's <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0061584992"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hardly Knew Her</span></a>. (My intention is not to disparage so-called genres but to make a factual observation.)<br /><br />In so-called literary short fiction, authors will sometimes introduce their own selected or collected works. For instance, Tobias Wolff opens <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1400044597"><span style="font-style: italic;">Our Story Begins</span></a> with "A Note from the Author" that addresses the question of whether or not an author should revisit (i.e. tinker with) earlier stories when putting together selected stories. (Notice he doesn't call it an "Introduction.") Wolff did, in fact, revisit earlier stories--and that's the sole focus of his brief note. And, like King's introduction, it has helped frame reviewers' discussion of his book.<br /><br />Of course, ultimately, stories have to speak for themselves. And anyone who doesn't want an introduction can skip it. In addition, a popular writer like King often has a very public, ongoing relationship with his readers, who are likely to appreciate insight into his creative process. Truth is, you could ask why more writers don't share their back story and their insights with their readers.<br /><br />Still, call me a traditionalist, but I generally like short story collections better without introductions. How do you feel about it?<br /><br /><form method="post" action="http://poll.pollcode.com/IgqX"><table background="http://pollcode.com/images/bg/white_diag.gif" bgcolor="#eeeeee" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="150"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><b>How do you feel about short story collections that have introductions?</b></span></td></tr><tr><td width="5"><input name="answer" value="1" type="radio"></td><td><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" >I don't approve of introductions--the stories should speak for themselves.</span></td></tr><tr><td width="5"><input name="answer" value="2" type="radio"></td><td><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" >An introduction is sometimes okay. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 115px;" /></a>There's a restaurant in Granville, Ohio, called <a href="http://theshortstoryrestaurant.com/index.html">The Short Story Brasserie</a>. I stumbled on this unexpectedly when I switched to Google Maps on the heels of a Web search for "short stories." The inspiration for the restaurant? <a href="http://www.turksheadreview.com/library/texts/hemingway-cleanplace.html">Ernest Hemingway</a>.<br /><br />In the words of proprietor J. Norman Housteau:<br /><blockquote>I always envied Hemingway’s hunger for life. He bound the words in his stories together with his passion for food, wine, friends and travel.... This brasserie is intended to bring a world of flavor and culinary adventure to you in the same spirit that Hemingway brought the sights, sounds and flavors of the world to my house. I have always wanted to be a professional writer like Hemingway. Until then, please enjoy The Short Story.</blockquote>The menu carries through on the literary conceit with appetizers listed under Introduction. Chilled small plates, hot small plates, and large plates are Parts I, II, and III. Dessert is the D茅noument, and coffee, tea, and after dinner drinks are the Footnotes (very postmodern). 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MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 193px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" /></a>Congratulations to short story writer Nam Le (<em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307268082">The Boat</a></em>), who is the <a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/10/nam-le-claims-60-000-dylan-thomas-prize-91466-22222375/">winner</a> of the ₤60,000 biennial <a href="http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/index.html">Dylan Thomas Prize</a>, which goes to a writer under 30 and is the U.K.'s largest literary prize. The result was announced on Nov. 10 at an event in Thomas' native Swansea, Wales, along with a special message from Welsh-born actress <a href="http://www.catherine-online.org/">Catherine Zeta Jones</a>. (I wonder if <a href="http://www.reneesfansite.com/">Renee Zellweger </a>is available for The Story Prize event. )<br /><br />The other finalists were: British poet Caroline Bird, South African novelist Ceridwen Dovey, British novelist Edward Hogan, and Ethiopia-born U.S. novelist Dinaw Mengestu. At 29, Vietnam-born, Australia-raised, Iowa Writers' Workshop educated Le squeaked by just under the age limit. At today's exchange rate, the prize comes to roughly $92,000.<br /><br /><div>From our partisan point of view, it's nice to see a short story writer win an award that's also open to novelists and poets. And by the way, on Nov. 17 Nam Le will be participating in the <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/09/2-out-of-5-under-35.html">5 Under 35 </a>reading in New York as part of <a href="http://nationalbook.org/progcalendar.html">National Book Awards week</a>. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"Carolyn, remember that RE/MAX one where as the redhead kid falls asleep holding that Teddy bear rescued from the trash, the bear comes alive and winks, and the announcer goes, Home is the place where you find yourself no longer longing for home..."</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />—</span>from <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/01/27/030127fi_fiction">"Jon"</a> by George Saunders</blockquote>President-elect Barack Obama is not the only show in town in Chicago. At the Building Stage, from now through Dec. 14, you can see a theatrical version of George Saunders' short story "Jon" (pictured above), adapted and directed by <a href="http://collaboraction.typepad.com/collaboraction/2008/06/seth-bockley-an.html">Seth <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Bockley</span></a> of <a href="http://collaboraction.typepad.com/about_us/2007/05/about_us.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Collaboraction</span></a>. The story is one of my favorites by Saunders, who read from it at our <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/photo_2006.asp">award night</a> on Feb. 28, 2007, when <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=9781594489228"><span style="font-style: italic;">In Persuasion Nation</span></a> was a <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/2006_winners.html">finalist</a> for The Story Prize.<br /><br />A lot of stories have been made into movies, and many I've read would be great for the stage, so I hope to see this happen more often. Here's the description of the play, which serves as a pretty good summary of the story, as well:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">Jon</span> is a futuristic allegory about teenage love and self-discovery in a corporate universe where television commercials replace life experiences.<br /></blockquote>Try it, you'll like it. 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" /></a>It's early November and already a couple of lists of the year's best books are out.<br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6610357.html">Publishers Weekly</a> has a fiction list of 25 books including three short story collections:<span style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307265739">Unaccustomed Earth</a></span> by Jhumpa Lahiri, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307268082"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Boat</span></a> by Nam Le, and<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385523820"><span style="font-style: italic;">Knockemstiff</span></a> by Donald Ray Pollock.</div><div> </div><br /><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_7360162_2?ie=UTF8&node=1239030011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=00YJRAFNGGP0M444AN2V&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=461022201&pf_rd_i=283155">Amazon</a> has several numbered lists to scroll through. Their editors' list of the top 100 books--of all types--includes five short story collections. Knockemstiff is the highest ranked, at #21. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Boat</span> is at #29. And <span style="font-style: italic;">Unaccustomed Earth</span> is ranked #39. The other two books in the top 100 are <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812971835"><span style="font-style: italic;">Olive Kitteridge</span></a> by Elizabeth Strout (#53) and <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0151014965"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ms. Hempel Chronicles</span></a> by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (#95). Lahiri's book is ranked 18th on the readers' top 100 and #2 on the readers' Literature & Fiction list. Pollock's collection is #10 on the editors' Literature & Fiction list.<br /><br />These are all good books. But I can think of several excellent collections that didn't make the cut. The list of winners and finalists that we announce in early January, will include our choices. In the meantime, I'll keep my eye out for other yearend best ofs.<br /></div><div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-end-of-year-listmaking-begin.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-end-of-year-listmaking-begin.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-07T06:55:00-05:00'>6:55 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/2623697609588457767' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2623697609588457767&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2623697609588457767&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2623697609588457767&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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float: right; width: 219px; height: 320px;" /></a>Here's a bit of news from <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6611450.html?nid=2286&source=link&rid=1783008973">Publishers Weekly</a>: <div><blockquote><p>Reflecting a market in which publishers are significantly reining in their printings, Stephen King’s <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-141658408"><em>Just</em> <em>After Sunset</em> </a>arrives Tuesday, November 11, with a 900,000 copy announced printing, down from the 1.25 million copies projected last summer. </p></blockquote></div><div>I'm sure that may be disappointing to King and Scribner. But, if you figure that the average print run for a hardcover short story collection is probably under 10,000 (most far under), that means the print run for King's book is roughly equal to the combined run of 90 typical short story collections. That's more than the total number we'll receive as submissions to The Story Prize in 2008.<br /><br /></div><div> </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Put another way, if you were to place all of the printed copies of <em>Just After Sunset</em> on one side of a scale and all of the printed copies of nearly every other short story collection published in the U.S. this year on the other, the scale would probably tip King's way. I say nearly all, because Jhump Lahiri's <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307265739">Unaccustomed Earth</a></em>, which for one week (lest we forget) sat atop the New York Times Best-Seller List, no doubt has far more than the average number of copies in print. If <em>Just After Sunset</em> reaches the top of the list in the weeks ahead, that will make two stoy collections at No. 1 in 2008. Not bad for a form many consider to be foundering.<br /><br /></div><div> </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Given King's megapopulatity, it's great that he writes stories because it means that many more people will read them. In fact, I'd guess that, given the powerhouse sales of his book and Lahiri's, more Americans will read a short story collection this year than any past year. King has been a generous supporter of short fiction and of other writers' collections. He also writes some darned good stories. So, literary readers, don't hate him because he's popular.</div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/stephen-kings-latest-equals-90-ordinary.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/stephen-kings-latest-equals-90-ordinary.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-06T10:24:00-05:00'>10:24 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/1398111762706207304' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1398111762706207304&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1398111762706207304&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1398111762706207304&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1398111762706207304&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1398111762706207304&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1398111762706207304&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Jhumpa%20Lahiri' rel='tag'>Jhumpa Lahiri</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20story%20collections' rel='tag'>short story collections</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20King' rel='tag'>Stephen King</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='3151426919693833150' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='3151426919693833150'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/and-now-word-from-our-sponsor.html'>And Now a Word from Our Sponsor</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3151426919693833150' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div>The deadline for entries of short story collections published from August through December of this year is Nov. 14. If finished books aren't available for those with late November or December pub. dates, bound galleys are acceptable. Entry forms and <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/eligibility.html">guidelines</a> are available on The Story Prize <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/">Web site</a>. Some great books have come our way so far this year, and we're hoping to read several more. </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/and-now-word-from-our-sponsor.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/and-now-word-from-our-sponsor.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-06T06:49:00-05:00'>6:49 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/3151426919693833150' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3151426919693833150&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3151426919693833150&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3151426919693833150&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3151426919693833150&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3151426919693833150&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=3151426919693833150&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/deadlines' rel='tag'>deadlines</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20story%20prize' rel='tag'>the story prize</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, November 1, 2008</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUzhziYrtfV20F5yG64jYcUgciWmYGmQcCUtXMuxT426yMNtcBppDz7inhW2tJTLhldb_Uj9w_peB2MVyRhWbWfrUuFRDzDYt4uBCpHYxNTZ_omPI8APVsOCu9JOu-pkIt50yLZv47hST/s320/51SN35XLZ9L._SS500_.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='2822927230347525096' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='2822927230347525096'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/bond-james-bond-short-stories.html'>Bond. James Bond. Short Stories.</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-2822927230347525096' itemprop='description articleBody'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUzhziYrtfV20F5yG64jYcUgciWmYGmQcCUtXMuxT426yMNtcBppDz7inhW2tJTLhldb_Uj9w_peB2MVyRhWbWfrUuFRDzDYt4uBCpHYxNTZ_omPI8APVsOCu9JOu-pkIt50yLZv47hST/s1600-h/51SN35XLZ9L._SS500_.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263880145280616818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUzhziYrtfV20F5yG64jYcUgciWmYGmQcCUtXMuxT426yMNtcBppDz7inhW2tJTLhldb_Uj9w_peB2MVyRhWbWfrUuFRDzDYt4uBCpHYxNTZ_omPI8APVsOCu9JOu-pkIt50yLZv47hST/s320/51SN35XLZ9L._SS500_.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 320px;" /></a>A new James Bond film is due out this month, and it borrows its title from an Ian Fleming short story, "Quantum of Solace." In the Guardian, Andrew Lycett traces <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/01/greer-bond-steel">the real story</a> behind the story that inspired the film that actually has little to do with the story. Lycett also explains the curious title which refers to:<br /><br />"...a precise equation of the amount of comfort necessary between two people if love is to flourish. If this figure is zero, there can be no love."<br /><br />Huh? Is it kind of like an intimacy <a href="http://www.myfico.com/">credit score</a>? Is there such a thing as a subprime relationship?<br /><br />"Quantum of Solace" was originally included in Fleming's 1960 collection of Bond stories <span style="font-style: italic;">For Your Eyes Only</span> and is the title story of the newly released <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0143114581">Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Stories</a>--</span>no doubt a good read. Alas, only living authors are eligible for The Story Prize. So, Miss Moneypenny, this is one we won't be considering. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/bond-james-bond-short-stories.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/bond-james-bond-short-stories.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-01T21:31:00-04:00'>9:31 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/2822927230347525096' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2822927230347525096&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2822927230347525096&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2822927230347525096&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;' target='_blank' title='BlogThis!'><span class='share-button-link-text'>BlogThis!</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2822927230347525096&target=twitter' target='_blank' title='Share to X'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to X</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2822927230347525096&target=facebook' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;' target='_blank' title='Share to Facebook'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Facebook</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2822927230347525096&target=pinterest' target='_blank' title='Share to Pinterest'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Share to Pinterest</span></a> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Ian%20Fleming' rel='tag'>Ian Fleming</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Bond' rel='tag'>James Bond</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/movies' rel='tag'>movies</a>, <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20stories' rel='tag'>short stories</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='3515825398724239970' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='7482996797512062883' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='7482996797512062883'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/ed-park-on-stories-about-stories.html'>Ed Park on Stories about Stories</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7482996797512062883' itemprop='description articleBody'> On the L.A. Times Web site, in the first of two installments, <a href="http://www.ed-park.com/">Ed Park</a> declaims on short stories included in two collections. The headline is: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-caw-astral-weeks2-2008nov02,1,5009629.story">"The Glorious, Oft-Overlooked, Short Story."</a> (Not sure about that second comma.) The two stories are "On Skua Island," by John Langan, from <span style="font-style: italic;">Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters</span> (Prime) and "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum," by Benjamin Rosenbaum from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Aunt King and Other Stories</span> (Small Beer Press). Langan's book is scheduled to be published later this month. Rosenbaum's book is available as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.lcrw.net/rosenbaum/smp-dl.php?file=Rosenbaum_Ant_King.pdf">a free download</a> or in <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=9781931520522">book form</a>.<br /><br />The focus of Park's column is stories about stories. As he says:<br /><blockquote>What connects them is their playful interrogation -- sometimes subtle, sometimes glaring -- of the short story form. They jolt us into fresh ways of reading.</blockquote>Focusing in detail on a particular story is an original and interesting approach to discussing a collection, and I think it works very well. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait another month for part II, because this appears in a monthly column, called Astral Weeks, that Park writes for the L.A. Times site. He is, by the way, one of the editors of the eclectic, snark-free monthly magazine<span style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://www.believermag.com/">The Believer</a></span> and the author of a workplace novel, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812978575"><span style="font-style: italic;">Personal Days</span></a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/ed-park-on-stories-about-stories.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/11/ed-park-on-stories-about-stories.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-11-01T09:10:00-04:00'>9:10 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/7482996797512062883' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7482996797512062883&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7482996797512062883&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=7482996797512062883&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 291px;" /></a>Dave Eggers, a member of <a href="http://thestoryprize.org/board.html">the advisory board</a> for The Story Prize, has won a $100,000 <a href="http://www.tedprize.org/">TED prize</a> for his work in establishing drop-in tutoring centers for school age kids in cities across the U.S. Starting with <a href="http://www.826national.org/">826</a> Valencia in San Francisco, he has done amazing work, shown real dedication, and <a href="http://www.tedprize.org/dave-eggers/4-minutes-of-inspiration/">inspired</a> many people to <a href="http://onceuponaschool.org/">get involved</a> with a very good cause. Dave is perhaps best known as the founder of <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/">McSweeney's</a> and the author of several books, including a very good short story collection, <a href="http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/7AFD5F72-97A1-45C0-909C-70D110DAB4CE/HowWeAreHungry.cfm"><span style="font-style: italic;">How We Are Hungry</span></a> (the net proceeds of which continue to benefit 826 Valencia and 826NYC in Brooklyn).<br /><br />In teaching kids to write better and fostering a love of reading and writing, these centers not only enrich the lives of the students and communities they serve, they also are quite likely helping to create the readers of tomorrow. And nothing is more essential to books, literature, and short fiction than an audience. So, thanks Dave, congratulations, and keep up the good work. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/dave-eggers-you-done-good.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/dave-eggers-you-done-good.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-10-28T23:03:00-04:00'>11:03 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/558752186528797444' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=558752186528797444&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=558752186528797444&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=558752186528797444&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a><em>This is the third in a series of three posts, each focusing on one of our judges this year for The Story Prize.</em><br /><div><br />In 2002, <strong>Hannah Tinti</strong> and <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EED71F31F930A15750C0A9629C8B63&fta=y">Maribeth Batcha</a> took an interesting and somewhat risky proposition and turned it into a successful literary journal, <em><a href="http://www.one-story.com/">One Story</a>.</em> As the name suggests, each issue includes one and only one story. And every three months a simple pamphlet that's easy to slip into a pocket arrives in subscribers' mailboxes.<br /><div><br /><div><div></div>Tinti actively edits each story that appears, and the Brooklyn-based magazine has a reading series and a Web site featuring author interviews. Among the <a href="http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=past">authors </a>published over the course of 109 issues are: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Arthur Bradford, Judy Budnitz, Ron Carlson, John Hodgman, Owen King, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Kelly Link, Roxanna Robinson, Dani Shapiro, Scott Snyder, Jean Thompson, and Kate Walbert.<br /><br /> <div></div>Beyond the success and admiration she has earned through her work as editor of <span style="font-style: italic;">One Story</span>, <a href="http://hannahtinti.com/">Hannah Tinti</a> is also an accomplished author in her own right. She published a collection of short stories, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385337441">Animal Crackers</a>, in 2004, and most recently a novel, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0385337458">The Good Thief</a>. Her accomplishments as a writer and her devotion to the short story, make Hannah an ideal judge for The Story Prize.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Addendum:</span> Ron Hogan has <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/the_novel_hannah_tinti_didnt_want_to_write_is_now_a_hit_98268.asp#more">a post</a> on Hannah in GalleyCat, as does<a href="http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=8960"> Maude Newton</a>. Both have lots of links to other interviews and reviews.<br /></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/story-prize-judges-part-iii-hannah.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/story-prize-judges-part-iii-hannah.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-10-23T05:00:00-04:00'>5:00 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/8217717255507482220' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8217717255507482220&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8217717255507482220&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=8217717255507482220&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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He founded and continues to help run Elliott Bay's internationally-recognized author reading series, which has presented writers from around the world since 1984. Rick is a founding board member of <a href="http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/">Copper Canyon Press</a> and has served on numerous advisory boards and panels for the American Booksellers Association, the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Arts & Lectures, Seattle Review, the <a href="http://www.miamibookfair.com/">Miami Book Fair</a>, and the Beijing Book Fair, among others. He writes a column, "<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/blogger/2700.html">Mist Place</a>," for publishersweekly.com.<br /><div><div><br />But all of that doesn't tell the whole story. Rick has established a national reputation for himself through sheer dedication, a love of books, a sharp eye, and indefatigable enthusiasm. The <a href="http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/current/calendar.jsp">reading series</a> at Elliott Bay isn't just a couple of authors a week; it includes book groups, play readings, and programs outside of the bookstore--at Seattle libraries and cultural centers--nearly every night of the week, year round. And he does all of this not to sell books but to sell what they have to offer.<br /><br />Rick is someone whose opinion publishers and editors solicit and whose enthusiasm for a book can help it find a sizable audience. 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a><em>This is the first in a series of three posts, each focusing on one of the judges for The Story Prize this year.</em><br /><div><br /><div><strong></strong><strong>Daniel Menaker</strong> has a long involvment with short fiction in several capacities. He was an editor at <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker</span> for twenty years, where he was the first to publish such authors as Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, and Jennifer Egan. While there, he also worked with Elmore Leonard, Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others.<br /><div><br />In 1995 Dan left <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker</span> for publishing, joining Random House as Senior Literary Editor. After a stint at HarperCollins, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Random House editorial imprints in 2001, where he worked with such authors as Billy Collins, Gary Shteyngart, Colum McCann, Benjamin Kunkel, and Sister Helen Prejean.<br /><br />On top of all of that, he's the author of two books of short stories--<em>Friends and Relations</em> and <em>The Old Left</em>--and a novel, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0571197170"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Treatment</span></a>, which was made into a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462579/">film</a> in 2006.<br /><br />Dan continues to contribute to such publications as <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker, The New York Times,</span> Slate, and the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-menaker">Huffington Post</a>. Presently he's working on <span style="font-style: italic;">Can We Talk?</span>, a book about conversation, and is the editorial producer and presenter for the online talk show about books, Titlepage (<a href="http://titlepage.tv/">titlepage.tv</a>). The program is currently on hiatus, but on the Web site you can view six hour-long episodes, each featuring a discussion with four authors. (Episode 4 includes Elizabeth Strout, author of a book of connected stories, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0812971835">Olive Kitteridge</a>. And Episode 5 includes short story writer Nam Le (<a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0307268082">The Boat</a>).) If you haven't seen the show yet, check it out. 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MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Each October, we <a href="http://www.thestoryprize.org/">announce </a>the three judges for The Story Prize. This year, we're thrilled to have former <em>New Yorker</em> fiction editor, onetime Random House Editor-in-Chief, and author <strong>Daniel Menaker</strong> (left); <strong>Rick Simonson</strong> (center) of <a href="http://www.elliottbaybook.com/">The Elliott Bay Book Co.</a> in Seattle; and author and <a href="http://www.one-story.com/"><em>One Story</em> </a>editor <strong>Hannah Tinti</strong> (right). I'll be posting more detailed information about each judge over the next few days. Suffice it to say, we think we have an exceptional and exceptionally qualified group of judges for 2008.<br /><div><br /><div>In the meantime, here are some answers to some questions you might have about the judges' role and The Story Prize's approach to judging:<br /><div></div><br /><div><em>How do you decide the composition of the panel?</em> </div>Traditionally, each year one of the judges for The Story Prize is a writer. We alternate between an independent bookseller and a librarian for the second judge. We've had editors, critics, and bloggers as the third. And some judges have fallen into more than one category.<br /><br /><div></div><em>Why not have only writers judge, as most other book awards do?</em> <div></div>We think having a more diverse group of judges adds an interesting dimension to the process. The short story doesn't only belong to writers. Readers, teachers, students, librarians, booksellers, editors, and critics are also part of the short story community. And we want to associate as many different types of people as we can and give a wider range of people a connection with the prize.<br /><br /><div></div><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">How does the judging work?</span><br /><div>Each judge reads the three books that Founder Julie Lindsey and I choose as finalists in early January and then votes for his or her favorite. The process is confidential--we never disclose what book a given judge voted for.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">What happens if each judge votes for a different book, resulting in a tie?</span><br />The judges also give us their second choices to serve as tie-breakers. If this, too, isn't definitive, and we can't break the tie after consulting with the judges, Julie Lindsey and I decide the winner. That hasn't happened yet.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Why don't the judges also choose the finalists?</span><br />There are two reasons for this. One is that, in our view, it's too much to ask of the judges. The Story Prize receives approximately seventy five entries each year, which would require a lot of time and attention on their part. We want this to be fun, not onerous. In addition, we believe <a href="http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/09/they-coulda-been-contenders.html">a two-tiered system</a>, in which we choose the finalists and then turn the final decision over to a group of outside experts to choose the winner, is the best way to do it. </div><div></div><br /><div><em>Who have the judges been in previous year?</em></div><a href="http://thestoryprize.org/judges.html">2007/8</a>: Author/critic <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">David Gates</span>, librarian <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Patricia Groh</span>, editor <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Megan O'Rourke</span><br /><a href="http://thestoryprize.org/2006_judges.html">2006/7</a>: Author <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Edwidge Danticat</span>, blogger <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ron Hogan</span>, bookseller <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mitchell Kaplan</span><br /><div><a href="http://thestoryprize.org/2005_judges.html">2005/6</a>: Author <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Andrea Barrett</span>, librarian <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Nancy Pearl</span>, critic <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">James Wood</span></div><a href="http://thestoryprize.org/2004_judges.html">2004/5</a>: Author <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dan Chaon</span>, bookseller <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ann Christophersen</span>, editor <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Brigid Hughes</span> <div></div><div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/here-come-judges.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/here-come-judges.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-10-19T23:10:00-04:00'>11:10 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/2489318756381710228' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2489318756381710228&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2489318756381710228&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=2489318756381710228&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a> Of course, I'm disappointed that none of the five <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008.html">finalists </a>for the National Book Award for fiction are short story collections. There were some good ones this year, however, I don't want to tip our hand by saying what I think should have been in the mix. Still, the judges--Gail Godwin, Rebecca Goldstein, Elinor Lipman, Reginald McKnight, and Jess Walter--read 271 books, and having not read the same ones, it's hard to take issue with their choices. They deserve a lot of credit for devoting themselves to this task. My wife, Alice, was a judge in 2003, and I know what a huge, time-consuming job it is. In any event, at face value, it looks like the panel made interesting choices, and I hope this will bring more readers to what are sure to be very worthwhile books.<br /><br /><div></div><div>The finalists, by the way, are:</div><div>Aleksandar Hemon, <em><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1594489884">The Lazarus </a>Project</em> (Riverhead)<br />Rachel Kushner, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1416561033"><em>Telex from Cuba</em> </a>(Scribner)<br />Peter Matthiessen, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0679640196"><em>Shadow Country</em> </a>(Modern Library)<br />Marilynne Robinson, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-0374299101"><em>Home</em> </a>(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)<br />Salvatore Scibona, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/aff/storyprizeblog6?product=978-1555974985"><em>The End</em> </a>(Graywolf Press)</div><div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07169350136244188566' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>The Story Prize</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-story-collections-among-national.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-story-collections-among-national.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2008-10-15T14:23:00-04:00'>2:23 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/email-post/3515825398724239970/1507979496912432283' title='Email Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='13' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-549049396'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1507979496912432283&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1507979496912432283&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3515825398724239970&postID=1507979496912432283&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" /></a><div>Small presses, including university presses, deserve a lot of credit for supporting short fiction. Nearly half the books we receive as entries for The Story Prize come from them, and every year we read a lot of quality work outside of commercial publishing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some small press publishers are extensions of literary magazines, such as <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/books/future.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">McSweeney's</span></a>, <a href="http://www.opencity.org/index.html">Open City</a>, and <a href="http://www.tinhouse.com/books/index.htm">Tin House</a>. Others are independent publishers, including <a href="http://www.beacon.org/showproducts.cfm?FullCat=351">Beacon Press</a>, <a href="http://fc2.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">FC</span>2</a>, <a href="http://www.graywolfpress.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Graywolf</span></a>, <a href="http://www.milkweed.org/">Milkweed Editions</a>, <a href="http://www.sarabandebooks.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Sarabande</span> Books</a>, and <a href="http://www.lcrw.net/">Small Beer Press</a>. And then there are the university presses, some of which publish story collections every year as part of awards they sponsor. Among these are the <a href="http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/FOC_winners.html">University of Georgia Press </a>(<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Flannery</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">O'Conner</span> Prize), <a href="http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35940">University of Pittsburgh Press</a> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Drue</span> Heinz Literature Prize), and <a href="http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/buzz/index.html#shortfiction08">University of Iowa Press </a>(John Simmons and Iowa Short Fiction Awards). Other university presses--including <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/">Carnegie-Mellon</a>, <a href="http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/bookPages/9780807132944.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">LSU</span> Press </a>, and <a href="http://www.ohioswallow.com/subject/Fiction">Ohio University/Swallow Press</a>--simply publish a fair amount of short fiction.<br /><br />Small presses often launch careers, sometimes resuscitate them, and also can sustain them. Having smaller organizations allows editors to take chances that commercial publishers most likely wouldn't. As a result, small presses publish more experimental fiction, and they can choose work primarily on the merits without necessarily having to calculate how promotable a book or author is. On the other hand, small presses don't have nearly the means to publicize work that big commercial publishers have.<br /><br /><div></div>In any event, here's a list of a dozen outstanding short story collections that we've read for The Story Prize:<br /><br /><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Smallest-People-Alive-Keith-Banner/dp/0887484263/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223493240&sr=1-1">The Smallest People Alive</a></em> by Keith Banner (Carnegie Mellon)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-1555974114">Damned If I Do</a></em> by Percival Everett (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Graywolf</span>)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-0807132944">The Animal Girl</a></em> by John Fulton (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">LSU</span>)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-0977698912">Human Resources</a></em> by Josh <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Goldfaden</span> (Tin House)<br /><a href="http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/mfb/index.htm"><em>Magic for Beginners</em></a> by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-0804010993">Teach the Free Man</a></em> by Peter Nathaniel <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Malae</span> (Ohio University/Swallow Press)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-1573661263">Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Martone</span></a></em> by Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Martone</span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">FC</span>2)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-1931520195">Mothers & Other Monsters</a></em> by Maureen <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">McHugh</span> (Small Beer Press)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-1932511154">Other <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Electricities</span></a></em> by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Ander</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Monson</span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Sarabande</span> Books)<em><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-1555974855">Refresh Refresh</a></em> by Benjamin Percy (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Graywolf</span>)<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/product?isbn=978-0807083857">Women in the Grove</a></span><em> </em>by Paula W. 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href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2021/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2021/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> 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class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/'> 2018 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(49)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2018/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/'> 2017 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(62)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2017/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/'> 2016 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(78)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(21)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(18)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2016/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/'> 2015 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(68)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/'> 2014 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(94)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2014/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a 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dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2013/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2013/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2013/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(92)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(20)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2012/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/'> 2011 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(85)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 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class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2011/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/'> 2010 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(96)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2010/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/'> 2009 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(61)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2009/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/'> 2008 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(50)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-less-of-moore.html'>Getting Less of Moore</a></li> <li><a href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2008/12/story-prize-event-march-4-circle-it-on.html'>The Story Prize Event. March 4. 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dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2017%20finalists'>2017 finalists</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2021%2F22%20Story%20Prize%20finalists'>2021/22 Story Prize finalists</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/3%2F2%2F16'>3/2/16</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/3%2F26%2F24'>3/26/24</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/3%2F4%2F09'>3/4/09</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/3%2F4%2F15'>3/4/15</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Adam%20Johnson'>Adam Johnson</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Brandon%20Taylor'>Brandon Taylor</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Colum%20McCann'>Colum McCann</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Danielle%20Evans'>Danielle Evans</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Deborah%20Eisenberg'>Deborah Eisenberg</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Flannery%20O%27Connor'>Flannery O'Connor</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacob%20M.%20Appel'>Jacob M. Appel</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Ling%20Ma'>Ling Ma</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Oprah%27s%20Book%20Club'>Oprah's Book Club</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Phedra%20Deonarine'>Phedra Deonarine</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Story%20Prize%20at%2020'>The Story Prize at 20</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/book%20design'>book design</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/events'>events</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/index'>index</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/notable%20books'>notable books</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/press%20coverage'>press coverage</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/program'>program</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </span> <span 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href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2022%2F23%20Story%20Prize%20finalists'>2022/23 Story Prize finalists</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/4%2F13%2F22'>4/13/22</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Alice%20Munro'>Alice Munro</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Anna%20Noyes'>Anna Noyes</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Antonya%20Nelson'>Antonya Nelson</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Deesha%20Philyaw'>Deesha Philyaw</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Hannah%20Tinti'>Hannah Tinti</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Helen%20Maryles%20Shankman'>Helen Maryles Shankman</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Joan%20Silber'>Joan Silber</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Justin%20Taylor'>Justin Taylor</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Lauren%20Groff'>Lauren Groff</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Lily%20King'>Lily King</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/McNally%20Jackson'>McNally Jackson</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Molly%20Reid'>Molly Reid</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Morgan%20Talty'>Morgan Talty</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/National%20Book%20Awards'>National Book Awards</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Yoon'>Paul Yoon</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Pulitzer%20prize'>Pulitzer prize</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Rick%20Moody'>Rick Moody</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Susan%20Minot'>Susan Minot</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Center%20for%20Fiction'>The Center for Fiction</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/bad%20stories'>bad stories</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/collections%20by%20accomplished%20writers'>collections by accomplished writers</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/other%20notable%20collections'>other notable collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20story%20month'>short story month</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/story%20collections'>story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20O.%20Henry%20Awards'>the O. Henry Awards</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2011%20short%20story%20collections'>2011 short story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2016%20short%20story%20collections'>2016 short story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2023%20short%20story%20collections'>2023 short story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/3%2F10%2F21'>3/10/21</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/AWP%20Seattle'>AWP Seattle</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Amina%20Gautier'>Amina Gautier</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Becky%20Hagenston'>Becky Hagenston</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20Marcus'>Ben Marcus</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20Stroud'>Ben Stroud</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Bennett%20Sims'>Bennett Sims</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Bonnie%20Jo%20Campbell'>Bonnie Jo Campbell</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Deb%20Olin%20Unferth'>Deb Olin Unferth</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Eudora%20Welty'>Eudora Welty</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Jamel%20Brinkley'>Jamel Brinkley</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Kali%20Fajardo-Anstine'>Kali Fajardo-Anstine</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Karen%20Shepard'>Karen Shepard</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Laura%20van%20den%20Berg'>Laura van den Berg</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/National%20Short%20Story%20Month'>National Short Story Month</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Olive%20Kitteridge'>Olive Kitteridge</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephen%20King'>Stephen King</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Tiphanie%20Yanique'>Tiphanie Yanique</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Uwem%20Akpan'>Uwem Akpan</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/Zadie%20Smith'>Zadie Smith</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/citations'>citations</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/connected%20stories'>connected stories</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/guest%20posts'>guest posts</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/ideas%20for%20stories'>ideas for stories</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/independent%20booksellers'>independent booksellers</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/intertextuality'>intertextuality</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/interviews'>interviews</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/original%20stories'>original stories</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/outstanding%20books'>outstanding books</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/short%20fiction'>short fiction</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/twitter'>twitter</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/03%2F10%2F21'>03/10/21</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2014%20short%20story%20collections'>2014 short story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2019%20short%20story%20collections'>2019 short story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2020%20short%20story%20collections'>2020 short story collections</a> <span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </span> <span class='label-size label-size-2'> <a dir='ltr' href='http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/search/label/2023%2F24%20finalists'>2023/24 finalists</a> <span class='label-count' 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