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Hotels in Kampa
Though there are few hotels located on Kampa Island itself, there are plenty of hotels in the Kampa area. Soak up your exclusive surroundings by checking into a luxury hotel near Kampa. The 5-star Mandarin Oriental, Prague offers the last word in indulgence. Built on the site of a 14th-century monastery with many period features, this sumptuous hotel features a health spa housed in a former chapel and a fine dining restaurant with an Asian-inspired menu. A more budget-friendly option is the Hotel U Krize, a beautiful 16th-century building converted into a warm and welcoming 3-star hotel near Kampa. The cozy restaurant is famous for its Czech and Slovak specialties, making it a favorite hangout for locals.
Things to see in Kampa
The island's unique attraction is the Museum Kampa, which exhibits the priceless art collection of Jan and Meda Mladek. Both were tireless supporters of Czech artists and on the death of her husband in 1989, Meda Mladek donated their eclectic artworks to the city of Prague. They are now on public display in a magnificent museum housed in a charmingly renovated mill. Highlights of the collection include bronzes by Cubist sculptor Otto Gutfreund and paintings by abstract art pioneer Frantisek Kupka. Kampa can also boast the shortest street in Prague, at only 27 meters long. In recent years it has also become a place of pilgrimage for Beatles fans all over the world, who come to see the famous graffiti on the Lennon Wall, dedicated to the memory of John Lennon. This romantic island is also the perfect place to enjoy a scenic walk with uninterrupted views over Prague's historic skyline.
Good for couples
Kampa offers a peaceful, picturesque escape from the bustle of the city center. Its quaint streets and riverside walks lend themselves perfectly to exploring hand in hand with someone special. Home to painters and poets, this atmospheric neighborhood also has its dark secrets—the so-called Devil's Stream that separates Kampa from the mainland is reputed to have been named after a shrewish woman who lived in a house known as the Seven Devils. The island is also famous for its exclusive gourmet restaurants, where you can share a secluded table and maybe spot a famous face among your fellow diners.
How to get to Kampa
Vaclav Havel International Airport is linked to the city center via bus. For a speedy and hassle-free journey direct to your Kampa hotel, consider pre-booking a private car, which will be there ready to meet your flight. Getting around Kampa itself is easy on foot, as this island is compact and simple to navigate. Take a gentle stroll along Ulice na Kampe to reach the Charles Bridge, from where you can easily walk to Mala Strana and its amenities, or explore further afield by public transportation.
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"If you could enroll in your favorite Women's Studies class again ten years after graduation, armed with everything you know about the complexities and compromises of adult life, what would you make of the feminist ideals you once held dear? That's exactly what Staal endeavors to find out in this brave and compelling book, which is one part memoir, one part astute literary analysis. As she struggles to make sense of love, life, marriage, and motherhood on her own terms, the author traces the history of women's words over centuries—from Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf to Erica Jong and Katie Roiphe. I cherished every page."
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If nothing else, this book is an excellent resource in terms of what books curious readers should be reading. Staal artfully describes how she is relating to each work, without giving too much away so there will still be something fresh for us who have not read the texts. That being said, it is also completely accessible for people who have not read the books. She explains just enough and talks about the works in a way that is neither too academic nor too plain. I had read some of the texts, but definitely not a majority.
I think this book works as one woman's relationship with feminism, which is the kind of story I prefer. I had a lot of the same questions that Staal found herself asking throughout the memoir and in her I found a kindred spirit. Through the power of rereading, Staal comes at feminism with a fresh perspective that only experience as a woman in the job market and in family life can give you. It was so refreshing to see such honesty when it came to the way she felt about feminism and her life. I think this is a book that every woman (and man) should be reading, especially if they are at a similar time in their life as Staal. I really enjoyed it and will be reading some of the books that Staal read, to gain my own perspective on my life and the great works of feminism.
There were several points in this book where I laughed out loud. There were ALSO several points where I just went "whoa, whoa, my mind is exploding with this amazing realization." As an 18-22 year old, I may not have been able to fully grasp some of the feminist theory; and revisiting it with all of my adult experiences makes the point all more clear.
I really appreciate that this book reminded me of feminist concepts again. I don't agree with all feminist writings, but I am definitely a feminist - of the same generation as the author. Being out of the academic environment, I hadn't been questioning or being critical (in the analytical sense) of what I experience and see in this world. The book got that academic-style thinking going again.
Overall, I loved it! It's neither an academic text, nor purely a novel - it's both and neither at the same.
A decade later, as a wife and mother who had traded in stability for the flexibility of free-lance and moved from Manhattan to Annapolis, Maryland, the life she had envisioned had seemingly shrunk, while she felt like a shadow of that former self.
Deciding to pursue the feminist classics seemed like a way to rediscover herself, so she signed on to sit in on Fem Lit classes at the university; and thus began her journey into understanding her relationships and herself, while revisiting the tomes she had once studied.
From the perspective of her life in the moment that she began this journey, she viewed the literature and the theories from a different vantage point. She discovered that she could identify with the first-wave feminists, like Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, while coming to odds with former heroines, like Beauvoir; she also learned to make peace with post-feminists like Katie Roiphe. She stated near the end: "Sometimes I grappled with the divisiveness of second-wave feminism and the ambiguity of third-wave feminism, while the postmodern theory I would have analyzed with delight as a college coed was cause for vexation when viewed in the framework of my daily life. Yet even these theoretically dense texts provided important opportunities to question and challenge my own beliefs, my own reactions."
As I read this intriguing memoir/journey, I couldn't help but compare this author's experiences to some of mine. Despite the fact that my own niche could most closely be categorized as "second-wave feminism," I could see that we had some similar experiences. When awash in the enthusiasm of intellectual pursuits and the passions of political activism, we are often unable to imagine how our theories will stand up to the lives we live. When we are faced with the day-in-and-day-out living, especially as parents, we have to reexamine our former beliefs.
Studying Staal's journey and reading her thoughts took me back to the thesis I wrote for my master's degree in counseling, in which I examined, researched, and theorized about useful therapeutic interventions for relationships in flux: relationships undergoing radical changes in terms of divisions of labor; attitudes about roles; and what a "rewritten marriage contract" in the face of change might look like. I theorized that, as an aftermath to these changes, stress might develop and require therapeutic interventions. As I wended my way through my thesis, and then tried to apply some of what I discovered to my own life, I reached a stalemate. I was unable to recreate the family I envisioned, so I struck out on my own. Redefining my life in a new incarnation led to another kind of journey.
Staal's Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life opened my eyes to one woman's quest and how feminism had altered her life and the lives of the women who embarked on their own voyages of discovery. From this book, I also concluded that, despite apparent progress, we still have a long way to go to achieve our goals.
One thing I do have to say first is; this writer is exceptional. I found this book very easy to read and approachable. This was written with today's woman in mind and did not cloak itself in philosophical jargon. She tells the story of why she pursued this topic and melds the story of her going back to school to retake courses she took before becoming a wife and a mother, while also dealing with some issues in her life and marriage. This is very important as without this perspective, this book would not have quite the voice it does.
The author was very analytical and well researched and touched on many of the issues woman deal with each day in our "real" lives. While she had grown up in a very non-traditional home, her married life, actually was much more traditional. However, any one who has shared a home with another, can understand these issues as they ranged from laundry to housework. What triggered her recent issues, being a new mother, she suddenly felt, her role as a mother had more expectations than her husband's role as a father. But, the big question was, was she enforcing these responsibilities, was he or was it their collective expectation, having been been indoctrinated into doing so?
In the course the author took on Feminist Texts you can see that feminist writings vary from tip-toeing around the prevailing dogma, just to be heard while others are pretty radical in male bashing or trying to rewrite the family structure. From the discussions in her classes, the author realizes, she is a different person, than she was years ago, when she first took these courses. Having become a wife and a mother, these issues were no longer black and white. She finds her classmates and professors have even different insights. Also, she was unsure of the changes in society being in the right direction. Young women seem to be embracing objectification as showing how they can be "one of the guys". This is far from, what would be expected as a step in the right direction for equality. Objectification serves no one well. Especially the objects.
I thought the author did a great job pointing out, that being a feminist, is not being anti-male, though some of the early texts are truly male bashing. I'm also glad she pointed out the "inequality" of the civil rights movement, where the rights of woman, were not addressed, but in fact considered laughable. This was appalling to me.
One interesting point, that was brought up, that I in fact discussed with some men in my life, was the concept of feeling selfish for taking time out for yourself. This is a female issue. None of the men I brought this up with once considered feeling guilty about taking time from the family for themselves. Ladies it would appear that we are part of the problem. A very good point.
At the end of the book, the author provides her reading list and it spans from very early authors to current day, as well as issues for women in third world countries. I'm certainly planning to pick some of these up.
This was an eye-opening book.
Instead, what I got was a well-constructed look at the texts, both from the perspective of a naive undergrad and a woman with some more life experience under her belt. The texts are examined and deconstructed, agreed and disagreed with, all in the context of Staal's life experiences during the two years she attended the classes.
Staal also includes the reading list from her syllabi, so that readers may examine the original works -- a very helpful addition.
I enjoyed the book, and got a fresh look at works ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft to Riverbend (an Iraqi woman blogger). Well worth reading.
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Frommer′s 500 places to take your kids before they grow up 2nd Edition 500 Great Reasons to Say,"Are We There Yet?" This bestselling guide takes you across town and around the globe to 500 of the most exciting places on earth. With more than 40 new destinations, this revised edition is packed with things to see, do, and explore—from the Painted Desert (United States) and the cave homes of Coober Pedy (Australia) to a camel safari (India) and Dracula′s Castle (Romania). Complete with hotel information, age recommendations, Web sites, and more, this guide provides the advice you need to plan a trip the whole familycan enjoy—and remember for a lifetime. Places to Go & Things to Do Around the World The natural world: awesome vistas, flora, and fauna Offbeat attractions: weird and wacky fun History: from ancient wonders to modern marvels Rides and thrills: bobsleds, dogsleds, andeverything in between Art and architecture: galleries, buildings, andmonuments Science: space centers, natural history museums,and more Sports: halls of fame and sporting events
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The writers seem to lean heavily on the experience of others who just happened to visit a certain place or country, which gives the whole book a very random feel. It is obvious that it is impossible to take up "all" great places in the world, but some choices just make no sense (To take up Stone Mountain in Georgia and not ANY of the great game parks in Africa is just odd).
On top of this, the descriptions with the different locations are not very helpful. Each place has some basic information that you can find in any guidebook or on wikipedia (making it, yet again, clear that the writers have not been there), but no real information on what it is like to visit the place with a (small) child. Ok, there is an age indication - without the rather useful explanation WHY this place is or is not ok for a 4-year-old (is it too dangerous? not allowed?).
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The positives are that the author provides good detail for each area with tips and tricks, good hotel, airport and contact information, and age ranges. There are some very unique groupings which make for an interesting read.
The negatives are that is it is an unrealistic travel guide for the average family, the "Why They'll Thank You" is weak, and it still didn't help me decide what to do next summer!
We've been lucky enough to have visited 97 of the places with our kids, now aged 15 and 20. It's been a blessing to us to be able to visit places like Thailand, which is wonderful, and the Great Barrier Reef and indeed Mount Fuji and Hiroshima. People in Japan take many kids ages 8 to 10 to the muesum at Hiroshima; it's a fantastically well done museum about a topic that every kid--and adult--should understand. The only one of the places that really didn't give us much of a thrill was Agate Fossil Beds in Nebraska. My guess is that the authors HAD to pick something in Nebraska. We just used the book to pick #97 which was the Spy Museum in Washington DC -- a great spot we hadn't heard of.
The only reason I don't give this book 5 stars is that it really could benefit from a geographical cross-reference. Many items do offer a list of items nearby which is helpful.
So maybe it is easier to take kids to Disney World, but think about these places too. A terrific book to think about for a lifetime of travel with your family.
When I received the book and began flipping through it, the first thing that I noticed is that this book is definitely not geared to a particular audience other than people traveling with children. Having traveled the world for work early in my career, I had a pretty good idea what it costs to travel to Asia, Europe, and most of the Western Hemisphere. The first thing that I noticed is that the trips ranged from very cheap with easy access to the insanely expensive requiring extensive planning.
Flipping through the pages, I counted about 30 of the destinations that I have been to. I spent a good portion of my childhood living in one of them and over 10 years of my adult life living very close to a handful of others. What the author describes of the destinations seems relatively accurate. I spent my childhood in SE Alaska (Scouting Alaska's Inside Passage in the book). The author's description of utilizing the Alaska Marine Highway system (ferry boats) is excellent. However, no where did it seem to mention that many times the ferry terminals tend to be out on the middle of nowhere. The Juneau ferry terminal is a bit less than 15 miles from downtown Juneau and around 1 to 2 miles from the nearest bus station. Personally, I would not have found this to be a nice surprise if I was traveling with kids and no car. Throughout SE Alaska, the terminals are varying distances from the downtown areas. While a person could always call a cab, it seems that a cautionary note would be in order. It made me wonder if places I am not familiar with would have similar issues. Calling a cab in Alaska is a simple affair for an American, but the same person may not know a safe way to travel in Zimbabwe, Ecuador, or Peru.
When I read the book, while I found it interesting, it seemed to go incredibly slow. Each attraction is given a page or two that outlines what the attraction is, a short history of it, advice on hiring guides and transportation, and many times tips that will help maximize the experience and save time by directing you to the highlights of the attraction. The book is divided into 17 chapters of attractions, each chapter divided into sub chapters. The topics cover most interests that range from animals, nature, ancient civilizations, wars, holy places, science attractions, sports, and amusement parks to name a few.
The book can be a great asset for the rich and not so wealthy alike. There are tons of great ideas that can be tailored to any family. While I would not rely on the book as the sole source of information for a destination, it is a great starting point. If you are looking for a list of Disney knock-offs, this is not going to be the best book. If you are looking for destinations you may not have been aware of (some in your own backyard), then the book is definitely worth a look. Many destinations will be out of your reach financially. Other destinations made me question if the kids would really value the experience. However, flip through the suggestions and you will find something great for you and your family.
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007by Laura Furman
An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na-ve, here is fiction that consistently defies our expectations. Selected from thousands of stories in hundreds of
An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na-ve, here is fiction that consistently defies our expectations. Selected from thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines, the twenty prize-winning stories are accompanied by essays from each of the three eminent jurors on which stories they judged the best, and observations from all twenty prizewinners on what inspired them.
"The Room"
William Trevor
"The Scent of Cinnamon"
Charles Lambert
Justine Dymond
"Galveston Bay, 1826"
Eddie Chuculate
"The Gift of Years"
Vu Tran
"The Diarist"
Richard McCann
"War Buddies"
Joan Silber
Tony D'Souza
"In a Bear's Eye"
Yannick Murphy
"Summer, with Twins"
Rebecca Curtis
"Mudder Tongue"
Brian Evenson
Sana Krasikov
"A Stone House"
Bay Anapol
"The Company of Men"
Jan Ellison
"City Visit"
Adam Haslett
"The Duchess of Albany"
Christine Schutt
"A New Kind of Gravity"
Andrew Foster Altschul
Ariel Dorfman
"El Ojo de Agua"
Susan Straight
"The View from Castle Rock"
Alice Munro
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Reading the many short stories submitted to The O. Henry Prize Stories by periodicals each year would seem to provide a special perch from which to generalize and categorize, to proclaim the year's prevailing style or subject matter. At a recent dinner party I attended, the host declared that he didn't read contemporary fiction and didn't know much about it, but he wondered if people still wrote old-fashioned sentences like " 'I don't know what you mean,' Constance said coldly."
It was easy to reassure him that such sentences still enjoy life, along with many other kinds, and that writers today are publishing a healthy variety of stories. But nothing would induce me to stand on an O. Henry soapbox and preach about trends in contemporary prose.
By choice, my reading experience focuses on one story at a time, not on what kind of story it is. If it's a great story, it doesn't matter if it is a Western, an epic, historical fiction, a spiritual journey, a domestic drama, or a postmodern fable. What matters most is how effectively the story moves the reader from one world (her own) to another (the story's).
As the statements of this year's O. Henry writers reveal, the writers themselves come to their stories in many different ways. You'll find one writer who wrote a story to express deep grief, and another to enter a contest that required a certain genre. Another of our writers wrangled his subject from anecdote to part of a novel to a short story. Yet another writer found her story within the fiction of two centuries ago, when, we would like to think, women's lives were so different. Each story in the collection represents an individual writer's search for the story and the right way to tell it.
There's a distant intimacy in William Trevor's fiction. He observes his characters from the heights of a chilly god, not without sympathy but without sentimentality–a god with low expectations, perhaps. The reader of a Trevor story, whether she likes the characters or not, can't help but be drawn to their dilemmas. In "The Room" the much-wronged Katherine uses infidelity as a catharsis. Varieties of betrayal and a homicide shadow the story, yet its focus is not on violence or even conflict but on an intricate emotional balancing act. Katherine lives as though in a chambered nautilus, with each aspect of her life sealed off in a separate compartment. It's up to the reader to make the connections between them.
Three of our stories have war in the background: Justine Dymond's "Cherubs," Joan Silber's "War Buddies," and "The Gift of Years" by Vu Tran. In "Cherubs" the war is long past, and, at first, there are no signs of trouble at the charming wedding in France the story portrays. But as it unfolds, narrated in first-person plural by American guests with the breathy enthusiasm associated with nuptials, the past intervenes. The excitement and promise of the occasion is tempered by another time when other Americans, the liberating army, were terrible guests.
Joan Silber, whose story "The High Road" was in the O. Henry 2003 collection, sets her story "War Buddies" years after the war has ended, when the narrator takes stock of his life and, most of all, of his long-lost doppelgänger. They were a civilian pair of engineers sent to South Vietnam to solve a technical problem that was costing lives and money. The war, though terrifying, was almost the least of their troubles.
The third war story, by Vu Tran, is about a South Vietnamese soldier separated from his family while his children grow up. The narrative contains a stunning reminiscence of battle, but Vu Tran's tale explores the consequences of war in domestic terms. It's a story about the universal human reluctance to believe in events that take place in our absence, especially when it comes to our children.
"The Duchess of Albany" by Christine Schutt and "Mudder Tongue" by Brian Evenson are strikingly different stories about aging parents and children. In Schutt's story, a mother faces up to her widowhood by playing with language and image. Evenson's portrait of a deteriorating father's linguistic pathology evokes the reader's sympathetic frustration even as we wait for another fascinating mistake. Schutt's widow uses language as a way to avoid being meddled with as she mourns, and Evenson's misspeaking professor succeeds too well in concealing his loss of control over the spoken word. For both aging characters, language is a weapon against an increasingly alien world.
"A Stone House" by Bay Anapol and "In a Bear's Eye" by Yannick Murphy are testimony to the often-observed kinship between the short story and the poem. In "A Stone House" the narrator circles around her lover, who is chimerical even when he's within reach, and her memories of her dying mother. "In a Bear's Eye" observes the difference between adult grief and a child's literal understanding of loss. On the first reading, both of these lovely stories offer the pleasure of the language; a second reading reveals the force of their emotion.
It would be easy to categorize "City Visit" by Adam Haslett and "The Diarist" by Richard McCann as coming-out stories, but this sells both stories short. One of Richard McCann's gifts as a writer is the way he uses memory to wrestle experience into art. "The Diarist" begins with the narrator announcing, "Here's one thing I remember, from all the things I never wrote down in my diary the summer I was eleven, the summer before my father died." The narrator is impossibly different from his father and brother in ways he didn't then understand. At the triumphant end of the story it becomes clear that the narrator will find his way not only by recognizing his sexuality but also through writing.
The protagonist of Adam Haslett's "City Visit" believes that New York, where he arrives with his mother for a visit, holds the key to his secret identity and his freedom. What he doesn't notice, and the reader does, is that his mother knows his secret and is willing to step aside while he takes his risks away from her care.
Ariel Dorfman's "Gringos" and Sana Krasikov's "Companion" are stories of uneasy exile. In Dorfman's skillfully layered tale, an exiled Latin American couple who live in the United States pretend not to know Spanish, putting themselves in danger when they're abroad. "Gringos" is also the story of a long marriage; perhaps the marriage offers the couple their only secure citizenship. Ilona, the protagonist of "Companion," is a warm, sexy, cranky, lonely woman who's living in the United States, yet she thinks constantly of other places and other possibilities. Her struggle to improve her lot undercuts her existence. The story poses the question of whether Ilona's helpless, predatory stance is part of every immigrant's condition or simply Ilona's character.
In writing "The View from Castle Rock," Alice Munro used a diary from her own family, though the story as a whole is convincingly imagined. It's long been Munro's special gift to make vivid the historical surroundings of her characters. In this case, their desires and hopefulness seem especially dramatic and important, as Munro brings to life the promise and the price the obscure immigrants pay when they leave for a new world.
Eddie Chuculate's "Galveston Bay, 1826" takes the reader on an adventure over land and out of time as a group of Cheyennes cross the Red River and travel as far south as they can. Chuculate's characters are deftly portrayed, and the reader feels, along with them, their joy and terror about what they discover.
"The Scent of Cinnamon" by Charles Lambert is set in the nineteenthcentury American West and begins with an exchange of letters between an American farmer and an English widow. As the two strangers move closer to becoming man and wife, the story takes another turn altogether, leaving the reader to decide what happened and what didn't, what was real and what wasn't. The Western pioneer setting, with its keen details of clothing, furniture, and horseflesh, makes an appropriate backdrop for a story about longing and loneliness.
Though "El Ojo de Agua" by Susan Straight takes place in contemporary Rio Seco, California, its heart is in another time and place altogether, the flood of 1927 in segregated Bayou Becasse, Louisiana. That nightmare time had a profound effect on the intertwined families in Susan Straight's story, so much so that the story's present-day tragedies echo the depredations of the past.
When Rebecca Curtis's narrator describes the sisters in her "Summer, with Twins," she is measuring them: "They weren't strikingly beautiful, and they weren't especially kind. But everything they did they did with enthusiasm . . . Their enthusiasm made me angry, because it seemed false, but then I became included in it and realized it was genuine." The narrator's desire to be included is her downfall. She's too dense to understand the selfishness and meanness of the twins, but the ambiguous reward of her summer–and the story–is an understanding of the power of money. Rebecca Curtis insists on confronting the confused morality of the twins.
Appropriate social behavior has gone missing in "Djamilla," Tony D'Souza's story of a young American in love with Africa. Disillusioned with the tribe he's living with, he flirts with a beautiful unmarried woman from another tribe. However much he sees himself as part of a community, because he's an outsider, he doesn't suffer the consequences of his actions. The interplay of desire, role playing, and carelessness makes "Djamilla" an intense exploration of how different people living in close proximity can be.
In Jan Ellison's "The Company of Men," Catherine, the young narrator, is deliciously naïve. In New Zealand she meets two young men, Jimmy and Ray, and the three settle temporarily in Sydney, Australia. They're all young and uncommitted: "There was the promise of some new knowledge–the shape of an ear, the smell of musk–or a shift in one's view of oneself in the world." They never become sexually entangled but she's seduced nonetheless, and in a way that shifts her view of her own sensuality.
"A New Kind of Gravity" by Andrew Foster Altschul takes place in a shelter populated by women and children who've suffered from violence, but its male narrator is the story's true subject. He works at the shelter, guarding the women from their abusive husbands and boyfriends. As his involvement with them becomes more complicated, the story grows more tense. He's trying hard to understand the women. We believe he's the good guy. Yet his secret flaw makes the story–and its subject–far more complicated than a tale of right and wrong, good and bad.
Once again, the stories in The O. Henry Prize Stories come from the three most important commercial publications for fiction–The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's–and from a variety of small magazines. The role of the commercial magazines in supporting and publishing new and established writers has never been so important. The Atlantic's decision to stop publishing a story per issue and to offer all its fiction in one annual issue raised distress signals among the community of writers, editors, and readers who care about literature.
Yet if the commercial magazines reach more readers than any of the others, the little magazines are the greatest evidence of our vibrant literary world. It's true that some of them fold when they lose university or private support, but heartening new magazines always arise in their place. For the second year in a row, an O. Henry Prize story comes from One Story, the innovative and successful dream of two young women. Another story is from Noon, an annual whose imaginative writing isn't widely known to the reading public. Two stories in our collection come from Manoa, an especially handsome quarterly, which for two decades has engaged in cross-cultural publication of writers from Asia and North America.
Literary magazines and writers need an active readership. If you admire the writers in this year's O. Henry, please keep an eye out for their future work.
Laura Furman
Austin, Texas
Meet the Author
Laura Furman's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and other magazines. She is the founding editor of the highly regarded American Short Fiction (threetime finalist for the American Magazine Award). A professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, she teaches in the graduate James A. Michener Center for writers. She lives in Austin. Ursula LeGuin is the author of The Left Hand of Darkness. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of The Dead Fish Museum. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Lily Tuck's most recent work is The News from Paraguay, which won the National Book Award . She lives in New York City and Maine.
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