{"id":47609,"date":"2013-03-01T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T19:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=47609"},"modified":"2019-01-04T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T11:00:13","slug":"story-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/01\/story-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to report that our contributors are racking up all kinds of well-deserved honors!<\/p>\n<p>First, David Means\u2019s story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6130\/the-chair-david-means\">The Chair<\/a>\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-200-spring-2012\">issue 200<\/a>) has been chosen for this year\u2019s <em>Best American Short Stories<\/em> anthology.<\/p>\n<p>We also have seven nominees for this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushcartprize.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pushcart Prize<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Frisch, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6201\/housebreaking-sarah-frisch\">Housebreaking<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-203-winter-2012\">issue 203<\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Gordon, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6165\/man-boob-summer-david-gordon\">Man-Boob Summer<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-202-fall-2012\">issue 202<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lorrie Moore, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6128\/wings-lorrie-moore\">Wings<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-200-spring-2012\">issue 200<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Davy Rothbart, \u201cHuman Snowball,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-201-summer-2012\">issue 201<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sam Savage, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6171\/the-meininger-nude-sam-savage\">The Meininger Nude<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-202-fall-2012\">issue 202<\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Searcy, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/6142\/el-camino-doloroso-david-searcy\">El Camino Doloroso<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-200-spring-2012\">issue 200<\/a><\/li>\n<li>John Jeremiah Sullivan, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/6144\/sources-for-the-princes-john-jeremiah-sullivan\">The Princes: A Reconstruction<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-200-spring-2012\">issue 200<\/a>Congratulations, everyone!\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to report that our contributors are racking up all kinds of well-deserved honors! First, David Means\u2019s story \u201cThe Chair\u201d (issue 200) has been chosen for this year\u2019s Best American Short Stories anthology. We also have seven nominees for this year\u2019s Pushcart Prize: Sarah Frisch, \u201cHousebreaking,\u201d issue 203 David Gordon, \u201cMan-Boob Summer,\u201d issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[10236,8581,256,10207,7940,6435,7766,8578,10238,1577,6437,8584,10237],"class_list":["post-47609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-best-american-short-stories","tag-david-gordon","tag-david-means","tag-david-searcy","tag-davy-rothbart","tag-issue-200","tag-issue-201","tag-issue-202","tag-issue-203","tag-john-jeremiah-sullivan","tag-lorrie-moore","tag-sam-savage","tag-sarah-frisch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Story Time! by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 1, 2013 \u2013 We are delighted to report that our contributors are racking up all kinds of well-deserved honors! 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