Reviews

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011, by Chris Adrian, Brian Evenson, Judy Doenges, Brad Watson, Tamas Dobozy, Laura Furman, Leslie Parry, Lily Tuck, Kenneth Calhoun, Elizabeth Tallent, Mark Slouka, Lynn Freed, Matthew Neill Null, A.M. Homes, Jim Shepard, Manuel Muñoz, Helen Simpson, Jane Delury, Lori Ostlund, Christine Schutt, David Means, Jennine Capo Crucet, Susan Minot, Adam Foulds

jmcphers's review against another edition

These stories appear to have been selected for their diversity rather than their overall merit. It's a good book to read if you want to be sure that you never read two stories in a row that are remotely like each other. (There's one exception--there are in fact two stories in a row written from the first-person perspective of homosexual men.)

karencarlson's review

4.0

Detailed comments (with possible spoilers) at A Just Recompense, including introduction, summary, and entries on each individual story