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Short stories and anthologies can open up new horizons in reading. If you want to explore more short fiction, here are some tips. Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2024-01-08 11:32:00 UTC ]
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Earlier this month, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres was banned from the Iowa City Schools. Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 17 novels, two collections of short fiction, five nonfiction books, and eight books for young adults. She spoke to The Little Hawk, the student newspaper of... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-12-19 09:59:29 UTC ]
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Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature writing, to food writing. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-05-16 15:00:45 UTC ]
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Many notable short stories focus on the rough passage from childhood to adulthood. Of course, the transition from ‘child’ to ‘adult’ does not happen overnight, and is not the result of a single epiphany of crucial moment, but writers of short fiction... Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-05-01 17:00:31 UTC ]
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The short stories of the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904) are important precursors to twentieth-century modernism, and can be viewed as forerunners to the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and other high modernists. Where other nineteenth-century writers tended to... Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2022-12-28 15:00:24 UTC ]
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If you need a break from the hustle and cheer of the holidays, there’s nothing better than the ultimate escapist genre: sci-fi. This year has been a good one for those who like their entertainment off-planet or otherwise removed from our reality. We finally got a Predator sequel that isn’t... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2022-12-26 14:15:37 UTC ]
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As he releases his first short story collection, the revered writer talks about magic, the problem with superhero movies and why he will never write another graphic novelI’ve been enamoured of prose fiction for quite a long while,” says Alan Moore. He is speaking to me from his home in... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-07 09:00:54 UTC ]
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What are the best short stories about the theme of motherhood? And who are the best mother characters in short fiction? Below, we select and introduce some of the most famous, and most widely studied, short stories which deal with the subject of mothers and motherhood. These stories range from […] Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2022-07-01 14:00:56 UTC ]
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Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, travel writing, to food writing. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines,... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-06-06 14:51:57 UTC ]
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Tonight, The Story Prize announced that the 2021 winner is Brandon Taylor for Filthy Animals. The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. Now in it’s 18th year, The Story Prize annually honors the author of an... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-04-14 01:11:02 UTC ]
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Death is a common theme in literature, and many of the finest writers of short fiction have explored the fear, event, and aftermath of death using the short-story form. Below, we select and introduce ten of the very best classic short stories which have death as their theme, ranging from […] Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2022-01-19 15:00:39 UTC ]
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Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, travel writing, to food writing. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines,... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-19 15:00:26 UTC ]
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Short stories are a complex form, one that author and professor Danielle Evans continues to show herself adept in. The ever-shifting opportunities of short fiction are evident in Evans’s work, from her debut collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self to her latest, The Office of... Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2020-11-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Since its publication in 1990, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a linked collection of semi-autobiographical short stories about the Vietnam War, has become a modern classic—in fact, its title story is the most frequently anthologized piece of short fiction in the last three decades, and... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-03 15:27:57 UTC ]
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Speak to us, oh lovers of short fiction: what are the most outstanding short stories you've read? Continue reading at 'Book Riot'
[ Book Riot | 2020-10-27 10:31:00 UTC ]
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One of the lesser known prizes for short fiction in Spain names its winner as Australia's high-profile Miles Franklin Literary Award issues its 2020 shortlist. The post Publishing Awards Notes: Madrid’s Desperate Literature Prize Goes to Angela Finn appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-06-26 17:54:35 UTC ]
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A new collection contains stories that cover a surprising amount of emotional territory but can still be read in a sitting. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-20 07:41:00 UTC ]
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Sixty years after the legendary African American author’s death in relative obscurity, a new collection of short fiction has arrived. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2020-01-16 13:00:00 UTC ]
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This is Crowley’s first collection of short fiction since 2004’s “Novelties & Souvenirs.” Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-06 22:40:44 UTC ]
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Ashley Wurzbacher’s debut, “Happy Like This,” is among this fall’s standout story collections. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2019-10-15 09:00:08 UTC ]
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