Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris is the author of three previous novels, Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, and a collection of stories, The Dinner Party. He was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” writers in 2010. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.

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"Mrs. Blue" — Iowa Review 29.2
"More Abandon" — Best New American Voices 2005
"Ghost Town Choir" — Prairie Schooner 80.3
"It Would Be Life—" — Phoebe
"Uncertainty"— Tin House 34
"More Afraid of You"— Granta 101
"The Dinner Party" — The New Yorker, 11 Aug 2008
"The Valetudinarian"— The New Yorker, 3 Aug 2009/Best American Short Stories 2010
"A Night Out" — Tin House 40 (10th Anniversary Issue)
"The Unnamed" — Granta 109
"The Pilot" — The New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010
"The Fragments" — The New Yorker, April 29, 2013
"The Breeze" — The New Yorker, September 30, 2013/Best American Short Stories 2014