Fall in love with this collection of short stories centering Indigenous love and what it is to make a relationship. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-28 13:00:00 UTC ]
The longlist for the International Booker Prize 2025 “celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-25 18:01:05 UTC ]
Every week, our weekly magazine The Commuter publishes a new work of flash fiction, poetry, and graphic narrative. For Black History Month, we’re looking to the archives for some of our favorite poetry and stories by Black writers, all available to read for free online. From Tara Campbell’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-02-21 12:05:00 UTC ]
Author whose work examined the links between emotions, behaviour and location, notably in his novel Bleeding LondonDuring 2014, hundreds of photographers, amateurs and professionals, Londoners and tourists, snapped images of 58,000 London streets. The vast project – inspired by the novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-17 16:14:54 UTC ]
Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-01-18 10:00:14 UTC ]
Lou Mathews, author of "L.A. Breakdown" and "Shaky Town," is back with "Hollywoodski," a novelized collection of short stories about a faded screenwriter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-01-17 11:00:42 UTC ]
Mexican Writer Guadalupe Nettel to Headline Puterbaugh Festival at OU, by the Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Mon, 01/13/2025 - 09:20 Author photo by Germán NájeraThe 2025 Puterbaugh Lit Fest will return to the University of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2025-01-13 15:20:12 UTC ]
My first book had been something of an accident—two or three short stories that ran together unexpectedly, hit the 25,000-word mark, and found a publisher almost immediately. It happened so fast, I hadn’t really had time to think about what I was doing. Like a lot of indie presses in 2015, my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-08 09:56:36 UTC ]
Here are five 2025 mystery releases to have on your radar, from middle grade dark academia to short stories with sleuthing Jesuit priests. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-12-09 13:30:00 UTC ]
Language of White Bones: The Secrets of Han Kang’s Poetic Prose, by Eun-Gwi Chung Essay [email protected] Thu, 12/05/2024 - 15:23 Photo of Han Kang by Paik Dahuim / Courtesy of Natur & KulturLike a clutch of words strewn over white... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-12-05 21:23:24 UTC ]
Late in 1933, Dylan Thomas started writing a new short story. “The theme of the story I dreamed in a nightmare,” he wrote to a friend. “If successful, if the words fit to the thoughts, it will be one of the most ghastly short stories ever written.” Thomas was possessed, in part, by rejection.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-10-31 08:56:14 UTC ]
Roger Allen: Translating Arabic and the Art of Translation, by Jonas Elbousty Interviews [email protected] Mon, 10/14/2024 - 14:56 Roger Allen was the first person to obtain a doctorate in modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford. After... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-10-14 19:56:44 UTC ]
Han Kang’s poetry and short stories are just as innovative and important as her novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2024-10-10 17:11:35 UTC ]
Every time I read Jamie Quatro’s fiction—from her debut collection I Want to Show You More, to her 2018 novel Fire Sermon, to her short stories in the New Yorker—I experience the same edge-of-my-seat pleasure. Quatro’s characters are as alive as flesh-and-blood people; the Southern landscape... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2024-10-03 12:00:00 UTC ]
In 1993, I published my first decent story in a literary journal and a few months later received a letter from an agent whose name I recognized. I’d written short stories in college classes, sent them off, and typically the only thing that came back was a rejection, housed in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-10-01 11:10:00 UTC ]
Rarely have I been so moved, awed, amused, satisfied, and softly startled by a debut, but The Only Sound Is the Wind, the gorgeous new fiction collection by Pascha Sotolongo, is a deft, accomplished, utterly fearless book of short stories that seamlessly meld the mundane and the transcendent,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-10-01 08:55:46 UTC ]
The Short Stories of Moroccan Writer Mohamed Choukri: A Talk by Dr. Jonas Elbousty, by The Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Thu, 09/26/2024 - 13:32 The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-09-26 18:32:59 UTC ]
Pedro Almodóvar's first book consists of a mix of short stories and personal essays that amount to 'a fragmentary autobiography.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-09-16 10:00:58 UTC ]
Picture a teenager in a suburban Southern California Costco, lingering by the books tables while her parents shopped. There, between the boxed vacuums and party-size clamshells of croissants, I first encountered the writing of Ha Jin. His short story, “After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town,” had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-10 08:55:26 UTC ]
Striding the Borderlands: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s Great Fear on the Mountain, by Alice-Catherine Carls Book Reviews [email protected] Thu, 09/05/2024 - 14:03 Caroline Cingria, C. F. Ramuz, pastel (1903) / Images courtesy of Noël CordonierLumen... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-09-05 19:03:58 UTC ]