Short story collection about soldiers struggling in cope with chaos of Iraq war takes top US literary prize, with Ursula K Le Guin honored for lifetime contribution• Redeployment by Phil Klay review – incendiary stories of warA US marines veteran, Phil Klay, has taken home America’s most... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
My romance with Chicken Soup for the Soul began and ended with the adolescent iteration, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, and it was fostered in part because I read it when I was not yet teenaged. There was so much in that book for a 10-year-old to love: the amazing celebrity contributors... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A short story collection by Kuwaiti author Mai Al-Nakib has won the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray has pre-empted a collection of short stories and debut novel from Irish writer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nine romance writers are distributing an anthology of short stories, "Naught Nine," through INscribe Digital. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
An obscure but fascinating aspect of the Civil War, when hundreds of women disguised as men enlisted in the army as Union soldiers to fight, is at the heart of Neverhome (Little, Brown; Sept.) by Laird Hunt, the author of five novels and a collection of short stories and a two-time finalist for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
We last heard from Elizabeth Spencer more than a decade ago. In 1998 she published a memoir, Landscapes of the Heart, followed in 2001 by a “greatest hits” roundup of her novellas and short stories, The Southern Woman, which was followed by a quiet 12 years. One could be forgiven the thought... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'Creature,' Amina Cain presents personal tales of female characters at loose ends.The peril of reading literary short stories is that one tends to encounter characters who behave not like you or me but like the kind of people one finds only in short stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Scott Turow's 'Identical' is a compulsively readable crime story about brothers, feuding families and a long-ago murder.Over the course of nine novels, Scott Turow's Kindle County has become one the best-known settings in American literature. While fictional locations are not uncommon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first Canadian winner, Alice Munro has published nothing but short stories in a 50-year career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first Canadian winner, Alice Munro has published nothing but short stories in a 50-year career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The good news: According to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts, more than half of American adults read books for pleasure in 2012.The good news: According to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts, more than half of American adults read books for pleasure in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many of novelist Stephen King's books and short stories have found their way to the screen either through a movie or mini-series. Some, like The Shining, have become classics in the eyes of fans, while others...well... This season a King novel has returned the author to prominence on the small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2013-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
China's Douban is experimenting with crowdsourced translations of English literature, including SF and short stories by David Mitchell. Can it help authors enter the market? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon's Little A imprint will release novels, memoirs, and story collections, while Day One will focus on short stories and new writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
One collection of short stories and four novels—including Jeet Thayyil’s Narcopolis, winner of the DSC Prize—have been shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eoin Colfer has been named as the author of the first of Puffin's eleven Dr Who short stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary events organiser Book Slam is releasing its second book of short stories, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Glasgow-based independent Freight Books has bought a collection of short stories by Rodge Glass,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science-fiction great Ray Bradbury died Tuesday night in California at the age of 91. He was renowned for his short stories as well as for the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, which cast readers into a Cold War-inspired future of paranoid book burning. Back in 2005, Bryan Curtis argued that,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]