The writer’s signature style of ending—a final, thrilling note—has the touch of magic that distinguishes the form at its best. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-06-28 10:00:00 UTC ]
Red Arrow Studios has co-development rights with Playground for all 75 novels and 28 short stories about the French detective Jules Maigret. The post Maigret Rides Again: Playground Entertainment Options Georges Simenon’s Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-06-25 18:59:14 UTC ]
At the Rumpus, Xuan Juliana Wang discusses the art of the short story in a round table that includes Kimberly King Parsons, Dantiel W. Moniz, Mary South, and Ashley Wurzbacher. The panel shares their thoughts on crafting a collection, along with what draws them to short stories in the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-06-24 20:30:14 UTC ]
‘The Circular Ruins’, first published in 1940, is one of the most richly symbolic short stories by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. One of his most powerful and suggestive explorations of the nature of reality and dreams, ‘The Circular Ruins’ can variously be interpreted as a story... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-06-05 14:00:43 UTC ]
‘The Dead’ is the most critically acclaimed and widely studied story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories written by James Joyce and published in 1914. As we’ve remarked before, Dubliners is now regarded as one of the landmark texts of modernist literature, but initially... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-05-29 14:00:07 UTC ]
‘The Lost Decade’ is one of the shortest works by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), the American author best-known for The Great Gatsby. Published in Esquire magazine in December 1939, just one year before Fitzgerald died, ‘The Lost Decade’ is one of his most powerful short stories to deal with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-04-17 14:00:20 UTC ]
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami offers a collection of imaginative short stories with skewed elements that his many fans are sure to applaud. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-04-06 22:11:04 UTC ]
The Folio Society‘s latest publication is a massive edition of all 118 of Philip K. Dick’s short stories, presented in this shockingly bright four-volume set. Their edition of The Complete Short Stories was designed by independent studio La Boca and includes original artworks commissioned from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-06 18:04:35 UTC ]
Lit Lists Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice. Now it’s your turn... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-31 20:04:23 UTC ]
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories written by James Joyce and published in 1914. As we’ve remarked before, Dubliners is now regarded as one of the landmark texts of modernist literature, but initially sales were poor, with just 379 copies being sold in the first year (famously, 120 […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-03-27 15:50:27 UTC ]
“You Made Me Love You” collects short stories from throughout Wideman’s acclaimed career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-26 20:23:09 UTC ]
Whether it’s vampires or werewolves or mysterious patterns in wallpaper, writers of Gothic short stories have used all sorts of horrors and frights to chill our blood, ever since the horror short story developed in the early nineteenth century. Below, we pick ten of the very best Gothic horror... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-03-18 15:00:00 UTC ]
Short, fun erotic short stories that will leave you wanting more! Check out the best erotic short stories that you need to pick ASAP. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-05 11:35:00 UTC ]
‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied short stories written by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Subtitled ‘A Parable’, the story originally appeared in a gift book titled The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1836, before being collected in Hawthorne’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-02-27 15:00:46 UTC ]
I also love the way that surreality and exaggeration can work in short stories in ways that they don’t often in novels. The wilder the conceit, the harder it is to sustain, like it’s rocket fuel. The post Resisting the Easy Impulse: Te-Ping Chen in Conversation with Brenda Peynado appeared first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-02-26 10:59:07 UTC ]
Charles Dickens (1812-70) is best-known for his fifteen novels and for shorter books like A Christmas Carol. However, Dickens’s was a restless talent, and during his publishing career that spanned more than thirty-five years, he also wrote countless articles, essays, and short stories. Although... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-02-25 15:00:13 UTC ]
What stands out in Ernest Hemingway’s short stories is their humanity, their feeling for human fragility. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-02-20 11:00:00 UTC ]
In short stories like “The Immortals” and novels like “The Listeners,” Mr. Gunn helped prepare readers for the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-11 17:10:44 UTC ]
There’s so much contemporary fiction released every day, it’s hard to keep track—and it’s hard to know which works will still be remembered in a year and which will slip into obscurity. Luckily, we have George Saunders to guide us. In an interview with Los Angeles Review of Books, Saunders was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-05 16:37:34 UTC ]
At the Southern Review of Books, Justin Evans reflects on Breece D’J Pancake‘s celebrated collection of short stories from 1984, published five years after his death. “The stories of Breece D’J Pancake, by their own merit, are remarkably tied to the rural home of their author,” Evans writes.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-01-29 21:30:19 UTC ]