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(4.2) | 4 | "The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls' school. Also included are the editor's introduction, essays from the jurors (Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman, and Jim Shepard) on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines." -- Publisher's description.… (more) |
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After reading a few stories, I was already starting to forget them (I tend to forget books at an alarming speed, most of the time when I finish a novel I have already forgotten the beginning), so I started a log with a rating for each story and a short note to help me remember, and possibly draw from this a list of authors or magazines I'd like to read more of.
Ratings go from 1 (three stories I didn't bother to finish) to 5. Interestingly, three of the stories were initially published in the New Yorker magazine, and those are among the weakest: two of them I didn't finish, and the third I gave a rating of two, which was especially disappointing because this story is by Alice Munro, who won a Nobel prize. I had never read anything by her before, and her name was one of the reasons I bought this book. The story in her story (if you see what I mean) was good and should have been really moving, but it was told in an incredibly flat and boring way.
For what it's worth, here is the list of the stories with my ratings:
Your Duck Is My Duck - Deborah Eisenberg - Fence - 5
Sugarcane - Derek Palacio - The Kenyon Review - 4
The Summer People - Kelly Link - Tin House - 3
Leaving Maverley - Alice Munro - The New Yorker - 2
White Carnations - Polly Rosenwaike - Prairie Schooner - 3
Sail - Tash Aw - A Public Space -1
Anecdotes - Ann Beattie - Granta - 4
Lay My Head - L. Annette Binder - Fairy Tale Review - 5
He Knew - Donald Antrim - The New Yorker - 1
The Visitor - Asako Serizawa - The Antioch Review - 4
Where Do You Go? - Samar Farah Fitzgerald - New England Review - 3
Aphrodisiac - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - The New Yorker - 1
Two Opinions - Joan Silber - Epoch - 3
They Find the Drowned - Melinda Moustakis - Hobart: another literary journal - 5
The Mexican - George McCormick - Epoch - 4
Tiger - Nalini Jones - One Story - 3
Pérou - Lily Tuck - Epoch - 4
Sinkhole - Jamie Quatro - Ploughshares - 3
The History of Girls - Ayşe Papatya Bucak - Witness - 4
The Particles - Andrea Barrett - Tin House - 5 ( )