I think a lot of us believe in ghosts. In fact, many of us are likely haunted by them. I’m talking about emotional ghosts, of course. My debut short story collection, Those Fantastic Lives: And Other Strange Stories, has a particular fascination with ghosts. In my stories, there are certainly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-10-14 11:00:00 UTC ]
Book Reviews Photo by andy lapham / Flickr Whether he is recounting his nighttime drive with a late colleague and poet around the beltway of the pulsing and vibrant São Paulo—a city so full of people and culture that it seems to have its own... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-10-11 20:56:08 UTC ]
His novels and short stories are populated with refugees from war, colonialism and historical injustice Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2021-10-07 16:46:03 UTC ]
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, a schoolteacher-turned-author, talks about her short story collection, 'My Monticello,' race, Charlottesville and Jan. 6. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-10-05 14:00:36 UTC ]
From the magazine’s archive: a selection of short stories and nonfiction from the magazine that have been adapted into films. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-09-26 10:00:00 UTC ]
One very short story – often attributed to Ernest Hemingway but actually the work of another writer – is just six words long: ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’. And some of the greatest fiction-writers of the last two centuries have written memorable short stories which stretch to little more […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-09-25 14:00:49 UTC ]
Shaky Town is a tough and beautiful mural of a novel constructed with interwoven short stories that explore the streets of East Los Angeles in the 1980s. The post Grace and Oblivion in the Forgotten Neighborhoods of ‘Shaky Town’ appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-09-23 10:00:49 UTC ]
For nearly every type of book, the physical book is not the thing we admire. The merit is situated outside the paper and glue. A novel, collection of short stories, memoir, gathering of poems, all create a story—whatever that may mean—in a reader’s head. A cookbook creates a fine meal upon a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-23 08:49:17 UTC ]
Struggling to read more but just can’t find the time? Well, Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction may have the solution (for free!). The staff at the not-for-profit is curating short stories for NYC’s first Short Story Dispenser, which is scheduled to be in commission starting October 2nd. Visitors to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-22 18:38:46 UTC ]
Haruki Murakami is a collector: of vinyl records, T-shirts, and short stories (ha ha ha). He’s donated his collection of over 10,000 vinyl records to Waseda University, but keeps his T-shirts in cardboard boxes at his home. According to Murakami, his collection came about somewhat by accident:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-21 16:25:57 UTC ]
‘A Sound of Thunder’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). A time-travel story about how changing the past could bring about momentous and catastrophic changes to the future, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ is often taught and studied in schools and remains... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-09-11 14:00:31 UTC ]
A new collection, ‘O. Henry: 100 Stories,’ demonstrates the allure of this masterful story writer Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
From the acclaimed author of novels and short stories, 'Harrow' is a magnificent, moving story about people picking up the pieces of apocalypse. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-07 13:00:01 UTC ]
The story of the First World War has been told in fiction, film, and television many times since the Great War began in 1914. Previously, we gathered together some of the best poems about the First World War, but what about the novels and short stories that have been written? […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-09-02 14:00:03 UTC ]
The late Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s collection of short stories, The City of Mist, has gone to Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-31 06:33:59 UTC ]
‘A Country Doctor’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied short stories by Franz Kafka (1883-1924). This short story, which Kafka wrote during the winter of 1916-17, tells of a country doctor who makes a visit to a nearby village to tend to a sick boy, but the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-08-28 14:00:15 UTC ]
Libia Brenda, Hannah Onoguwe, and Vandana Singh recommend two short stories and a poem that can help you think differently about climate change. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2021-08-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-23 17:02:39 UTC ]
The 2020 Tokyo Games will be defined by many things—the anachronism of its title, the risk of superspreading, the welcome absence of Matt Lauer—but, hopefully, these Olympics will also be remembered for bringing mental health to the forefront of popular discourse. Simone Biles’ “twisties.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-08-10 11:00:00 UTC ]
Seeking out the best new Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers, this year’s finalists range across continents to show ‘the best of what stories can do’The fallout from civil war invades the London home of a high-flying Sri Lankan couple. An elderly Jamaican woman faces up bravely to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-29 11:00:30 UTC ]