In the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Conner’s art helped sell airlines and overalls and accompanied short stories in The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-10-03 21:16:21 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired Irish writer Louise Kennedy’s debut collection of short stories and her first novel in a "fiercely contested" nine-way bidding war, ahead of this month’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 22:07:05 UTC ]
The collection of short stories reads almost like an assemblage of “Twilight Zone” episodes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-09-20 15:24:51 UTC ]
HQ has scooped a short story collection including eight "lost" stories by acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-13 13:50:04 UTC ]
Contemporary Short Stories from MyanmarIn 2017 the British Council produced an anthology of short stories from Myanmar. In 2012 the British Council sought to take advantage of new freedoms in literature and travel through a programme of workshops. The aim of the five-year literature... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-09-10 08:55:33 UTC ]
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories edited by Jhumpa Lahiri, is available now. * What was the genesis of this anthology? Three years ago, I began teaching creative writing at Princeton. I had just returned from Italy, where I had lived in Rome with my family for three years. During that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-09-10 08:46:32 UTC ]
These are some of the best creepy short stories that I've assigned (or WOULD assign) to keep my students intrigued (and terrified). Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-08-14 10:34:44 UTC ]
Keep the technology-inspired horror and thrill going with six short stories for fans of BLACK MIRROR--just don't read them on your ereader! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-08-08 10:35:58 UTC ]
Picador has bagged a satirical short story collection and novel from US writer Mary South. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-07 00:40:34 UTC ]
French publisher Editions de Fallois has announced that it will publish a collection of novellas and short stories by Marcel Proust, who you might remember from his very long, seven-volume À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Smithsonian.com reports: Agence... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-06 19:34:36 UTC ]
Interviews Matthew Davis Ugandan novelist and short-story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-08-06 13:42:31 UTC ]
Featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay, the comic anthology is a powerful and instructive collection of short stories by 60 female artists. The post Panel Mania: ‘Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival’ appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-08-02 10:00:17 UTC ]
Long before funny cat content flooded every single corner of the internet, John Steinbeck, legendary dog person, was writing it for Le Figaro, proving once again that France gets all the good stuff before we do. Steinbeck wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” or “Les puces sympathiques,” in 1954 for Le... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-31 15:44:48 UTC ]
The best Christmas stories This is a somewhat unseasonal post for us, appearing in July as it is. But we’ve recently turned our thoughts towards Christmas literature for a whole host of reasons, so thought we’d offer ten of the greatest short stories about Christmas. These are stories set around […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-07-27 14:00:59 UTC ]
Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes Into the Forest, contains a collection of 67 short stories exploring moments in the lives of women. Pursell’s first book, Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow, was recognized as a 2017 Indies finalist and a finalist and honorable mention in fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-07-25 11:00:57 UTC ]
A new collection of Bette Howland's short stories restores a powerful voice to the canon. The post Their Daughters Were Having Cats Instead of Children appeared first on Guernica. Continue reading >> [ Source: Guernica | 2019-07-22 11:00:20 UTC ]
TRANSLATED BY KEN LIU, Broken Stars is a welcome second collection of 16 Chinese speculative fiction short stories and three short essays recounting the genre’s recent cultural and academic prominence. The volume gives voice to an eclectic group, serving as a who’s who of SF authors, critics,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-20 19:00:31 UTC ]
Book Reviews Amy Lantrip Photo by Ethan Chiang / Flickr Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers: An Anthology (Cambria Press, 2018) is a collection of short stories in translation featuring contemporary Taiwanese authors.[i] This compilation is diverse... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-07-18 14:13:08 UTC ]
Audible is launching a fiction podcast featuring original short stories from writers including Daisy Johnson, Eimear McBride and Liv Little. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 17:17:09 UTC ]
SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN’S COLLECTION of short stories Mouthful of Birds opens bleakly: When she reaches the road, Felicity understands her fate. He has not waited for her, and, as if the past were a tangible thing, she thinks she can still see the weak reddish glow of the car’s taillights fading on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-10 17:00:00 UTC ]