The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners with Guest Editor Valeria Luiselli.
Date recorded: 9/16/22
The prestigious annual story anthology with series editor Jenny Minton Quigley, and contributors Megan McDowell, Lorrie Moore, and Alejandro Zambra.
Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Luiselli, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.