Cultural Cross Sections From the town of Kaikoura on the South Island / Photo by the author New Zealand may be best known to many as Middle Earth (and that’s not a bad rep to have), but the country has much more than just the snowcapped Pass of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-11-03 17:25:10 UTC ]
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 >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-03 15:27:57 UTC ]
We asked for your favorite short stories and got a long list! Here are 53 of the most outstanding short stories our readers have read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-11-02 11:31:00 UTC ]
Welcome to the virtual book launch of Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, brought to you by The Antibody Reading Series in collaboration with WORD Bookstore (buy from the bookstore here). Tonight’s guests include editors Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, along with contributors Meg... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-29 23:30:17 UTC ]
Speak to us, oh lovers of short fiction: what are the most outstanding short stories you've read? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-27 10:31:00 UTC ]
These short stories by Black authors include some of the best Black short stories published, for middle graders, YA readers, and adults. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-16 10:37:00 UTC ]
The longing for connection, for belonging, is woven throughout a dozen short stories in Caroline Kim’s superlative debut collection. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-10-13 22:35:50 UTC ]
The longing for connection, for belonging, is woven throughout a dozen short stories in Caroline Kim’s superlative debut collection. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-10-13 22:35:50 UTC ]
The longing for connection, for belonging, is woven throughout a dozen short stories in Caroline Kim’s superlative debut collection. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-10-13 22:35:50 UTC ]
“You think you’ve known someone for a long time,” a character in one of Jenny Bhatt’s short stories says of her Indian colleague shortly after he’s shot dead by a white man in a bar. “Maybe he never really took to us. Never really became one of us.” Turn by turn, each of his white […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-10-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
What lengths will we go to in order to belong? To be part of something exclusive? To be part of a sisterhood or brotherhood? That’s the searing question that authors Benjamin Nugent and Genevieve Sly Crane try to answer in their books about college Greek life. Nugent’s Fraternity, a collection... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-10-02 11:00:00 UTC ]
From The New Yorker’s archive: short stories by Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Stephen King. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-08-30 10:00:00 UTC ]
The Little Mermaid sacrifices her tail for a human soul. The Navajo Changing Woman grows old and is reborn with the seasons. The nymph Daphne becomes a tree to escape lovesick Apollo. Women transform because we are hungry. We transform because we’re restless, and because we’re dangerous. Women... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-08-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
From The New Yorker’s archive: short stories by Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Stephen King. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-08-16 10:00:00 UTC ]
The most iconic short stories in the English language, as determined by that “weird and wiggly” hive-mind, the American cultural consciousness. | Lit Hub Jill Filipovic on how Boomers—“the generation with the least stable marriages in American history”—changed family life forever. | Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-13 10:30:25 UTC ]
Last year, I put together this list of the most iconic poems in the English language; it’s high time to do the same for short stories. But before we go any further, you may be asking: What does “iconic” mean in this context? Can a short story really be iconic in the way of a […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-13 08:50:36 UTC ]
A Chicago brewery is partnering with Hat and Beard Press to cross-promote craft beer and a new collection of short stories by Sam Weller by brewing an Imperial stout with a label that replicates the cover of 'Dark Black.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
At Lit Hub, David Karashima asked five Japanese writers, including Yoko Ogawa and Masatsugu Ono, to discuss their favorite short stories by Haruki Murakami. Mieko Kawakami, author of Breasts and Eggs, praises the story on loneliness and lost, “Tony Takitani.” “I think of Murakami as an athlete,”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-07-22 20:30:36 UTC ]
Bonnier Books UK is releasing 500 Words: Black Lives Matter, a book featuring short stories children have submitted to a Chris Evans-devised Virgin Radio competition this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-16 10:43:26 UTC ]
Faber is to publish a collection of short stories by John Lanchester this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 08:59:04 UTC ]