The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Editor / Introduction) Audiobook

Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Editor / Introduction)
Read by Feodor Chin, Frankie Corzo, Gary Furlong, Deepti Gupta, Hillary Huber, Sullivan Jones, John Lee, Katharine Lee McEwan, Adenrele Ojo, Fred Sanders, Bahni Turpin
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year - continuing the O. Henry Prize’s century-long tradition of literary excellence.

“Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious awards for short fiction.” - The Atlantic Monthly

Now entering its second century, the prestigious annual story anthology has a new title, a new look, and a new guest editor. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and young emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Adichie, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.

Featured in this collection:

Daphne Palasi Andreades
“Brown Girls,” Kenyon Review

David Means
“Two Nurses, Smoking,” The New Yorker

Sindya Bhanoo
“Malliga Homes,” Granta

Crystal Wilkinson
“Endangered Species: Case 47401,” Story

Alice Jolly
“From Far Around They Saw Us Burn,” Ploughshares

David Rabe
“Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,” The New Yorker

Karina Sainz Borgo, translated by Elizabeth Bryer
“Scissors,” Granta

Jamel Brinkley
“Witness,” The Paris Review

Tessa Hadley
“The Other One,” The New Yorker

Adachioma Ezeano
“Becoming the Baby Girl,” McSweeneys Quarterly Concern

Anthony Doerr
“The Master’s Castle,” Tin House

Tiphanie Yanique
“The Living Sea,” from The Harvard Review

Joan Silber
“Freedom from Want,” Tin House

Jowhor Ile
“Fisherman’s Stew,” The Sewanee Review

Emma Cline
“White Noise,” The New Yorker

Asali Solomon
“Delandria,” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern

Ben Hinshaw
“Antediluvian,” Harvard Review

Caroline Albertine Minor, Translated by Caroline Waight
“Grief’s Garden,” Granta

Jianan Qian
“To the Dogs,” Granta Online

Sally Rooney
“Color and Light,” The New Yorker

Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 09-14-21