The O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (52 page)

PEN/O. Henry Juror Acknowledgments

“A. M. Homes on ‘Sunshine’ by Lynn Freed,” copyright © 2011 by A. M. Homes. Reprinted by agreement of the author, administered by The Wylie Agency, LLC.

“Manuel Muñoz on ‘Something You Can’t Live Without’ by Matthew Neill Null,” copyright © 2011 by Manuel Muñoz. Reprinted by agreement of the author, administered by Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists.

“Christine Schutt on ‘Your Fate Hurtles Down at You’ by Jim Shepard,” copyright © 2011 by Christine Schutt. Reprinted by agreement of the author.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

“The Black Square” first appeared in
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
. Copyright © 2009 by Chris Adrian. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Nightblooming” first appeared in
The Paris Review
, Issue 189, Summer 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Kenneth Calhoun. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“How to Leave Hialeah” first appeared in
Epoch
. Copyright © 2009 by Jen-nine Capó Crucet. From
How to Leave Hialeah
, published by the University of Iowa Press, 2009. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Nothing of Consequence” first appeared in
Narrative Magazine
. Copyright © 2009 by Jane Delury. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Restoration of the Villa Where Tíbor Kálmán Once Lived” first appeared in
One Story
. Copyright © 2009 by Tamas Dobozy. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Melinda” first appeared in
The Kenyon Review
. Copyright © 2009 by Judy Doenges. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency.

“Windeye” first appeared in
PEN America
. Copyright © 2009 by Brian Evenson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Rules Are the Rules” first appeared in
Granta
. Copyright © 2010 by Adam Foulds. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Sunshine” first appeared in
Narrative Magazine
, Spring 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Lynn Freed. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Junction” first appeared, in slightly different form, in
Ecotone
. From
The Spot
by David Means. Copyright © 2010 by David Means. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

“
Pole, Pole
” first appeared in
The Kenyon Review
. Copyright © 2009 by Susan Minot. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Something You Can’t Live Without” first appeared in the
Oxford American
. Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Neill Null. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bed Death” first appeared in
The Kenyon Review
. From
The Bigness of the World: Stories
, published by the University of Georgia Press. Copyright © 2009 by Lori Ostlund. Reprinted by permission of the University of Georgia Press.

“The Vanishing American” first appeared in the
Virginia
Quarterly Review
, Vol. 85, No. 4, Fall 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Leslie Parry. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Your Fate Hurtles Down at You” first appeared in
Electric Literature
. Copyright © 2009 by Jim Shepard. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Diary of an Interesting Year” first appeared in
The New Yorker
. Copyright © 2009 by Helen Simpson. Reprinted by permission of The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc., on behalf of the author.

“Crossing” first appeared in
The Paris Review
, Issue 190, Fall 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Mark Slouka. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Never Come Back” first appeared in
The Threepenny Review
. Copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Tallent. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Ice” first appeared in
The American Scholar
. Copyright © 2010 by Lily Tuck. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Alamo Plaza” first appeared in
Ecotone
. From
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories
by Brad Watson. Copyright © 2010 by Brad Watson. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.