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Three acclaimed and award-winning American writers - plus literary agent Wendy Weil - discuss the art of the short story and its place in American literature today.

About the authors:

Laura Furman's first story appeared in The New Yorker in 1976, and since then her work has appeared in Yale Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, American Scholar, Preservation, House & Garden, and other magazines. Her books include three collections of short stories, two novels, a memoir, and most recently The Mother Who Stayed: Three Trios of Stories. Series Editor of The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories since 2002, she selects the twenty winning stories each year. She is Susan Taylor McDaniel
Regents Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Diane Johnson is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including Le Divorce, Le Marriage, L'Affaire and most recently Lulu in Marrakech. A National Book Award finalist, winner of the California Book Awards gold medal for fiction, and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she divides her time between San Francisco and Paris.

Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie, and the forthcoming PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2010.  His debut collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and is a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize and for the Story Prize. For a number of years he practiced law in New York.  He now is based on a farm in Pakistan’s southern Punjab.