The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 brings to life a dazzling array of subjects: a street orphan in Malaysia, a cowboy and his teenage bride, a Russian nanny in Manhattan, a nineteenth-century Nigerian widow, and political prisoners on a Greek island. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.
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Them Old Cowboy Songs
Annie Proulx
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Clothed, Female Figure
Kirstin Allio
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The Headstrong Historian
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Stand By Me
Wendell Berry
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Sheep May Safely Graze
Jess Row
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Birch Memorial
Preeta Samarasan
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Visitation
Brad Watson
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The Woman of the House
William Trevor
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The Bridge
Daniel Alarcon
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A Spoiled Man
Daniyal Mueenuddin
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Oh, Death
James Lasdun
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Fresco, Byzantine
Natalie Bakopoulos
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The End of My Life in New York
Peter Cameron
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Obit
Ted Sanders
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The Lover
Damon Galgut
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An East Egg Update
George Bradley
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Into the Gorge
Ron Rash
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Microstories
John Edgar Wideman
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Some Women
Alice Munro
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Making Good
Lore Segal
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For author interviews, photos, and more,?go to www.ohenryprizestories.com?
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A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program.

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 professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, she teaches in the graduate James A. Michener Center for writers. She lives in Austin.