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"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." --The Atlantic Monthly
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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Very Mixed Bag
Part of the excitement of reading short stories by a variety of authors is you never know what you are getting. Some of these stories left me cold and some I mulled over long after I had finished reading them. Most fell in between these extremes.
2.0 out of 5 stars Totally depressing stories
Other than the first story, this is the most depressing collection of stories ever. If you read to find some sense of solace in these dark times, or find some sense of joy or inspiration, don’t look to this book. I’m hugely disappointed as each story got progressively weird and grim. I’m so disappointed as I usually love the O Henry annual collection of stories. So dark.
Outstanding selection of stories this year!
I have read every volume of the Pen/O. Henry Prize collection dating back to 1920. They are a delight to read and a real chronicle of the mood of the times. For the past few years the stories, in my opinion, seemed insipid and superficial. Over the years, certain years have had their lackluster moments, but not to the degree of the past several. Maybe the DEI pendulum had swung too far, and editors were feeling pressured to default to the fringe instead of to the ordinary, or maybe during this period, the fringe became the ordinary…At any rate, this year’s stories seem to be about real people once again. In this collection you will find stories of triumph, heartbreak, yearning, and about a world that is as confusing to the character as it is to the reader. This year’s batch has been a joy to read and experience!If I had to say what this year’s “theme” is, I guess I would say it seems to be about younger people pining over things lost and discovered when they were even younger. It’s a little strange to think about, but maybe our best new writers are younger people who are just discovering that they can chronicle the human experience through the authenticity of limited experience, rather than through the forced yearnings for inauthentic acceptance that plagued the early pre- and post-COVID world.If nothing else, "The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners" seems to show that we really have moved passed the Pandemic and are wending our ways back into the peculiar reality that encompasses shared existence.
Missing the punch
Do I think that Lauren Groff is one of our finest short story writers today? Yep. I love, love, loved FLORIDA, except for two stories, which were still a B+, the rest A's. I grade them. Do I think she isn't a great short story selector/editor/picker? Unfortunately, also yes. These stories were weird, dull, and I just couldn't get into them with that feeling of excitement that you get from cracking open a fresh selection of talented writers. The stories were just okay. I stopped reading 1/3 of the way through and skimmed. Highly recommend Florida, though.
Disappointing
After twenty five years of reading this anthology, I can only say how disappointing this collection is. One or two stories were fine, but the majority were muddled and not to my taste. Maybe next year will improve
Nice
I haven’t read the stories yet, but I’m sure I will enjoy them.
Not at all what I expected
I read the first third of the stories in this collection and felt like I must be intellectually lacking in some area of perceived literary excellence. I couldn’t subject myself to reading any more!I found the stories to be disjointed and completely unentertaining. One story had dialogue in it, but the formatting for each speaker was included in one big, long paragraph. None of the characters were interesting or relatable.Ernest Hemingway and Shirley Jackson would be appalled!When I tried to return the ebook to Bolo I got the message, “Sorry, the item is not valid for return.”Just for the record, I have a BA in Liberal Arts, and am a published journalist.Whatever these stories are trying to say, I didn’t get it.
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