The Best American Series is a literary institution. But just in case you’re stumbling upon it for the first time: Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature writing, to food writing. Each... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-11 14:00:24 UTC ]
Hello, readers! I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, advice columnist (and Dad) extraordinaire. I’m excited to welcome you back to yet another special episode of Am I the Literary Asshole?, an advice column that asks if “head empty, just vibes” is simply a nice way of describing a hangover. My head?... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-30 13:32:53 UTC ]
As Asian American Pacific Islander Month comes to end, it’s important to remind ourselves that the Asian American identity is more than just race or shared affinity. Born out of political activism and the anti-war movement to protest and rally against injustice, warfare, imperialism, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-05-30 11:00:00 UTC ]
What short stories have your favorite YA writers published? This guide will help you find them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-21 11:30:00 UTC ]
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-14 16:13:08 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The short stories of John Cheever (1912-82) are among the greatest American short stories of the twentieth century. His Collected Stories runs to 900 pages and contains tales which are by turns realist, borderline magic-realist, and downright... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2024-04-17 14:00:45 UTC ]
In WEIRD BLACK GIRLS, Elwin Cotman delivers seven short stories that go long on the absurdity and anxiety of modern Black life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-04-16 13:00:00 UTC ]
I have always loved the versatility of the short story, how it can so easily take on the forms of other things. There are playlist short stories, recipe short stories, diary and epistolary-style short stories. There are flash fiction stories, short short stories, and long short stories that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-04-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) I’m often surprised by how little serious critical attention some of the work of J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) has received. ‘Having a Wonderful Time’ is a good example. Like many of the short stories from the 1982 collection Myths of the Near Future,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2024-04-03 14:00:45 UTC ]
Short stories can do things novels cannot because they’re short. They’re limber and can dart in and out of close-fitting places. They can be weird and daring in ways that novels cannot always sustain. Joy Williams writes in, “8 Essential Attributes of the Short Story (and one way it differs from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of all of the short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), ‘The Apple’ is perhaps the most allegorical. First published in the Idler magazine in October 1896, the story concerns a schoolmaster who meets a man on a train; this man gives the teacher an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2024-03-27 15:00:31 UTC ]
From one girl’s aspiration to Olympic gymnastics glory, to a boy’s stint living in the Idaho wilderness in hopes of fixing his unruly behavior, something that remains a guiding principle in Black storytelling is the breadth of our lives. These stories, a collection of some of EL’s most-loved... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-02-22 12:00:00 UTC ]
In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-02-12 10:00:46 UTC ]
HarperVia will publish 'The Last Dream,' the debut collection of short stories by Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne, on September 24, in print and audiobook formats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
The If I Survive You author on the suspense of the Booker ceremony, Americans’ warped view of the Caribbean, and writing his next novel on the roadJonathan Escoffery, 43, was born in Texas and lives in Oakland, California. His debut, If I Survive You, about a second-generation Jamaican in Miami,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-27 18:00:42 UTC ]
Our annual pick of the most exciting debut fiction has previously tipped Sally Rooney and Louise Kennedy, Tom Crewe and Douglas Stuart. Here the class of 2024 tell us their storiesEach year since 2014, the Observer New Review’s writers and editors have read scores of forthcoming debut novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-14 07:00:20 UTC ]
A Rush of Indian Stories: A Review of Redolent Rush, by Dustin Pickering Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 01/08/2024 - 14:12 In Redolent Rush, a recent short fiction collection published by Hawakal, based in New Delhi, India, we have nineteen... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-01-08 20:12:06 UTC ]
Short stories and anthologies can open up new horizons in reading. If you want to explore more short fiction, here are some tips. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-01-08 11:32:00 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Good Country People’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied short stories by Flannery O’Connor (1925-64). The story, which focuses on a woman with a wooden leg who is befriended by a young and innocent-seeming bible salesman, takes in many... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-11-20 15:00:15 UTC ]
12 Books for Tolerance and Understanding (2023), by The Editors of WLT Lit Lists [email protected] Tue, 11/14/2023 - 14:07 For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-11-14 20:07:42 UTC ]