In a normal year, the judges for the Frank O'Connor Prize--the most moneyed award for short fiction--would be announcing their shortlist, then decorously withdrawing to their book-lined studies to consider their final choice. (Or so I imagine.) But this year, they've dispensed with all that: "'With a unanimous winner at this early stage we decided it would be a sham to compose a shortlist and put five other writers through unnecessary stress and suspense,' explained the award's director, Pat Cotter." (Details are here.)The book that has prompted such love and admiration is Jumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth.--David E
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