Paul Yoon
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Paul Yoon is an American short story writer.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy
, and Wesleyan University
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He lives in Boston
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His work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...
, and Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
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He lives in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
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His work has appeared in One Story, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction.
Awards
- 2009 John C. Zacharis First Book AwardJohn C. Zacharis First Book AwardThe John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best first book of poetry or fiction by a Ploughshares writer. The award carries a cash prize of $1,500, and feature publication in the "Postscripts" section of the Winter issue. It was started in 1991....
- 2009 O. Henry AwardO. Henry AwardThe O. Henry Award is the only yearly award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American master of the form, O. Henry....
- Best American Short Stories 2006
Works
- "Once the Shore", One Story Issue #58, June 20, 2005 (PEN / O. Henry)
- "Postcards from My Brother", Memorious 7, February 2007
- Once the Shore, Sarabande Books, 2009, ISBN 9781932511703
Anthologies
- "Once the Shore", The Best American Short Stories 2006, Editors Ann Patchett, Katrina Kenison, PHoughton Mifflin, 2006, ISBN 9780618543526
- "And We Will Be Here", The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, Editor Laura Furman, Anchor Books, 2009, ISBN 9780307280350
Reviews
Islands have often proved fertile ground for fiction. From Prospero's conjured dreamscape to the allegoric atoll of "Lord of the Flies," remote shores can be ideal test sites for the vagaries of human behavior. Utopian, dystopian, fantastic or mundane, they rise from the sea less as landmasses than as literary metaphors. Yet the island in Paul Yoon's "Once the Shore" manages to be both: a rich, fully realized place and a common thread that links its residents through history and time.
When I first encountered Paul Yoon’s story, “Once the Shore,” the opening piece in Best American Short Stories 2006, I felt the rush of a new discovery. In the first paragraph, a woman tells a waiter how her husband parted his hair. “There was a time,” the woman said, “when he bathed for me and me alone.”
External links
- “Once the Shore”, Issue #58, June 20, 2005, Paul Yoon
- "Stray Questions for: Paul Yoon", The New York Times, BLAKE WILSON, April 24, 2009
- "The Rumpus Interview with Paul Yoon", Stacey Swann, March 1, 2009
- "INTERVIEW WITH PAUL YOON", Sarabande Books