The Best Short Stories 2023, Lauren Groff
The Best Short Stories 2023, Lauren Groff
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The Best Short Stories 2023
The O. Henry Prize Winners

Author: Lauren Groff

Narrator: Lauren Groff, Full Cast

Unabridged: 15 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2023


Synopsis

The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ryan, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Lisa Taddeo, Ling Ma, Catherine Lacey, and Cristina Rivera Garza.

“[A] standout collection . . . . Dazzling performances from some of today’s most exciting writers. . . . This is one of the best fiction anthologies in years.” —Publishers Weekly starred review

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including several stories in translation. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL.

THE WINNING STORIES:
“Office Hours,” by Ling Ma
“Man Mountain,” by Catherine Lacey
“Me, Rory and Aurora,” by Jonas Eika,
translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
“The Complete,” by Gabriel Smith
“The Haunting of Hajji Hotak," by Jamil Jan Kochai
“Wisconsin,” by Lisa Taddeo
“Ira & the Whale,” by Rachel B. Glaser
“The Commander’s Teeth,” by Naomi Shuyama-Gómez
“The Mad People of Paris,” Rodrigo Blanco Calderón,
translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead
“Snake & Submarine,” by Shelby Kinney-Lang
“The Mother,” by Jacob M’hango
“The Hollow,” by ’Pemi Aguda
“Dream Man,” by Cristina Rivera Garza,
translated from the Spanish by Francisca González-Arias
“The Locksmith,” by Grey Wolfe LaJoie
“After Hours at the Acacia Park Pool,” by Kirstin Valdez Quade
“Happy Is a Doing Word,” by Arinze Ifeakandu
“Elision,” by David Ryan
“Xífù,” by K-Ming Chang
“Temporary Housing,” by Kathleen Alcott
“The Blackhills,” by Eamon McGuinness

About The Author

LAUREN GROFF is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, and Matrix, and the celebrated story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds, and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Radwa on April 30, 2024

wasn't really the best collection. #1- Office Hours by Ling Ma: I'm not sure what this story is supposed to mean. It started as a normal contemporary story about film student and her professor and their tight relationship, but then it takes a magical realism/dark twist and I feel like I didn't truly......more

Goodreads review by Ben on November 04, 2023

Was excited to read this collection however I think me and Lauren Groff, the editor, have very different tastes. That's the danger of a collection where one editor picks all the stories so no complaints there, we just look for different things in a story. Although they were all well written, many of......more

Goodreads review by el on December 04, 2023

rtc......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on August 17, 2024

My first O. Henry Prize anthology, after reading a few volumes of Best American Short Stories. I’m not sure why I didn’t start with the O. Henry series instead: unlike BASS, it isn’t limited to American writers and even includes stories in translation; also, ordering the stories artistically rather......more

Goodreads review by Cory on February 02, 2024

Exceptional: Office Hours by Linga Ma The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai (!!) Wisconsin by Lisa Taddeo (!!) The Hollow by 'Pemi Aguda Elision by David Ryan (!) Xífù by K-Ming Chang (!) Temporary Housing by Kathleen Alcott The rest were really good.......more


Quotes

"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly