Cover Photo: Photographs courtesy of the authors
Photographs courtesy of the authors

A Roundtable With the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories Judges: Tracy O’Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth

So many of the stories I liked best played with understatement and a sort of quiet, confident pacing.

Best Debut Short StoriesPEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

Notting Hill Beauty and Briefcase

NOON,Harper’s.

The LiterarianDawn

BlindersStoryQuarterly

How can writers and readers keep our attention on the wider world, especially during a pandemic that keeps us, at least physically, in one space?