Contents

Cover

Other Titles

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Editor's Note

Publisher’s Note

To Jean Rhys (1890–1979)

Introduction
Laura Furman, Series Editor

Irises
Elizabeth Genovise, Cimarron Review

The Mongerji Letters
Geetha Iyer, Orion

Narrator
Elizabeth Tallent, The Threepenny Review

Bonus Baby
Joe Donnelly, ZYZZYVA

Divergence
David H. Lynn, Glimmer Train

A Simple Composition
Shruti Swamy, Agni

Storm Windows
Charles Haverty, One Story

Train to Harbin
Asako Serizawa, The Hudson Review

Dismemberment
Wendell Berry, The Threepenny Review

Exit Zero
Marie-Helene Bertino, Epoch

Cigarettes
Sam Savage, The Paris Review

Temples
Adrienne Celt, Epoch

Lydia Fitzpatrick
Lydia Fitzpatrick, One Story

Bounty
Diane Cook, Harper’s

A Single Deliberate Thing
Zebbie Watson, The Threepenny Review

The Crabapple Tree
Robert Coover, The New Yorker

Winter, 1965
Frederic Tuten, Bomb

They Were Awake
Rebecca Evanhoe, Harper’s

Slumming
Ottessa Moshfegh, The Paris Review

Happiness
Ron Carlson, Ecotone


Reading The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016

The Jurors on Their Favorites

Molly Antopol on “Train to Harbin” by Asako Serizawa

Peter Cameron on “Winter, 1965” by Frederic Tuten

Lionel Shriver on “Irises” by Elizabeth Genovise

Writing The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
The Writers on Their Work

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