Introduction by Laura Furman, Series Editor
“Too Good To Be True,” Michelle Huneven
“Something for a Young Woman,” Genevieve Plunkett
“The Buddhist,” Alan Rossi
“Garments,” Tahmima Anam
“Protection,” Paola Peroni
“Night Garden,” Shruti Swamy
“A Cruelty,” Kevin Barry
“Floating Garden,” Mary La Chapelle
“The Trusted Traveler,” Joseph O’Neill
“Blue Dot,” Keith Eisner
“Lion,” Wil Weitzel
“Paddle to Canada,” Heather Monley
“A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness,” Jai Chakrabarti
“The Bride and the Street Party,” Kate Cayley
“Secret Lives of the Detainees,” Amit Majmudar
“Glory,” Lesley Nneka Arimah
“Mercedes Benz,” Martha Cooley
“The Reason Is Because,” Manuel Muñoz
“The Family Whistle,” Gerard Woodward
“Buttony,” Fiona McFarlane
Reading The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017: The Jurors on Their
Favorites
David Bradley on “Too Good To Be True” by
Michelle Huneven
Elizabeth McCracken on “Secret Lives of
the Detainees” by Amit Majmudar
Brad Watson on “Buttony” by Fiona
McFarlane
Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017: The Writers on Their
Work
Publications Submitted
Series editor LAURA FURMAN's work has appeared in The New Yorker,
Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and other magazines.
She is the founding editor of the highly regarded American Short
Fiction (three-time finalist for the American Magazine Award). A
former professor at the University of Texas, she lives in
Austin.
JUROR BIOS-
DAVID BRADLEY teaches at the University of Oregon and is the author
of The Chaneysville Incident, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and
a finalist for the National Book Award.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN, is the author of Thunderstruck and National
Book Award finalist The Giant's House. She teaches at the
University of Texas, Austin, and has received awards from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim
Foundation.
BRAD WATSON teaches at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His
novel The Heaven of Mercury was a finalist for the National Book
Award, and his Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist
for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
"Widely regarded as the nation's most presitigious awards for short fiction." --The Atlantic Monthly
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