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Selected Shorts: O. Henry Prize Stories with Host Amor Towles

SELECTED SHORTS: O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES WITH HOST AMOR TOWLES


WED, JAN 22


Hosted by Amor Towles


Mobilization by Allegra Hyde

Performed by Jane Kaczmarek


The Import by Jai Chakrabarti

Performed by Arjun Gupta


The Dark by Jess Walter

Performed by Richard Kind


There will not be a book signing at this event.


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The Artists (in alphabetical order)

The AUTHORS (in alphabetical order)

MORE INFORMATION

About the O. Henry Prize

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, The Best Short Stories: The O. Henry Prize Winners contains prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by the guest editor, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. Jenny Minton Quigley is the series editor.

Credits

“The Import” first appeared in Ploughshares and subsequently published in A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories. Copyright © 2023 by Jai Chakrabarti. Used by permission of the author and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

“The Dark” first appeared in Ploughshares. Copyright © 2023 by Jess Walter. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Mobilization” first appeared in Story and subsequently published in The Last Catastrophe: Stories. Copyright © 2023 by Allegra Hyde. Used by permission of the author and Vintage Books, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS

Selected Shorts is supported by the Dungannon Foundation, creator of The Rea Award for the Short Story.

Symphony Space’s season of programming is also made possible by the generous support of the Seedlings Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, Charles D. Fleischman Charitable Trust, Susan Bay Nimoy, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, PECO Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina, Michael Tuch Foundation, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation, The Grodzins Fund, The Isambard Kingdom Brunel Society of North America, and Theatre Development Fund.

Programming is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

Symphony Space thanks our generous supporters, including our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members, who make our programs possible with their annual support.

Floral design by PlantShed.

Symphony Space Staff

Kathy Landau Executive Director
Peg Wreen
Managing Director
Isaiah Sheffer
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Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1990)
Artistic Director (1990-2010)
Founding Artistic Director (2010-2012)
Allan Miller
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director (1978-1990)

Jennifer Brennan Director of Literary Programs
Drew Richardson
Lead Producer of Literary Programs
Vivienne Woodward
Producer of Literary Programs
Mary Shimkin
Director of Broadcast & Literary Initiatives
Sarah Montague Selected Shorts Radio Producer
Miles B. Smith Selected Shorts Recording Engineer
Matthew Love Consultant for Literary Programs
Magdalene Wrobleski
Literary Assistant
Leigh Reid Literary Intern
Mia Testa Literary Intern

*in memoriam

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