‘My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn’ is the opening story in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, a 1991 collection of short stories by the American writer Sandra Cisneros (born 1954). In the story, a young girl describes her friendship with a girl named Lucy, and it emerges that […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-04-13 14:00:16 UTC ]
A Lesson for Dr. Freud: Dominique Fabre’s Psychoanalysis of the Everyday and Everyman, by Alice-Catherine Carls Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 04/10/2023 - 15:41 And these things, that live by going away, know that you praise them;... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-04-10 20:41:34 UTC ]
Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin’s lymphomaRachel Pollack, award-winning author, leading authority on tarot and the occult, trans activist and comic-book writer who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, has died... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-04-08 10:45:56 UTC ]
Collected stories about the wild, uncharted frontiers of North America expand to include everything from classic nature tales to dystopian climate fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-03-29 16:23:08 UTC ]
In her latest short story collection, White Cat, Black Dog, MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link reinvents seven fairytales into modern, realist short stories about, for example, an aging billionaire choosing a successor, and a house-sitting gig that goes awry. Link is also the author of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-03-28 08:54:06 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Shirley Jackson (1916-65) wrote six novels and around two hundred short stories during her brief career. Probably best-known for her novel The Haunting of Hill House and her oft-anthologised short story ‘The Lottery’, Jackson was a writer with a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-25 18:00:23 UTC ]
A collection of fantastical short stories and a book of poems about escaping capitalist society were also among the 2022 winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-03-24 00:51:07 UTC ]
Children’s author who devised the adventures of the Pig family and illustrated stories including Dick King-Smith’s The Sheep-PigThe writer and illustrator Mary Rayner, who has died aged 89, was best known for her picture books about Mr and Mrs Pig, and the escapades of their 10 piglets. In... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-03-23 16:59:39 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ is one of the few short stories of the last half-century or so which can truly be called a modern myth. Indeed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), the story’s author, called her 1973 tale a ‘psychomyth’, inspired […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-21 15:00:42 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) In a short life beset by ill health, the American writer Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960). But it is for her short stories, many of which were collected in just two volumes, that […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-14 18:00:54 UTC ]
These linked short stories are a great way to discover an author's style, and a thrill for folks who love a good Easter egg. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-03-13 10:33:00 UTC ]
If you want a little shot of sadness, here are some of the best sad short stories to get the emotions flowing in no time! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-03-08 11:36:00 UTC ]
If the literary landscape of the early twentieth century, at least when it comes to short stories, is dominated by Anglophone writers like Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, then the mid-twentieth century arguably belongs to the Latin American writers who helped to move the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-05 18:00:38 UTC ]
I don’t know if we deserve Rebecca Makkai, but we certainly need her. The author of four novels and a short story collection, she’s been bringing range, depth, and humor to the literary world for at least fifteen years. She’s a regular among the pages of Best American Short Stories and was a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-03-02 12:00:00 UTC ]
Twenty stories written under a pseudonym and never before attributed to Pratchett, who died in 2015, will be released this year by TransworldA collection of newly rediscovered short stories by Terry Pratchett, originally written under a pseudonym, are to be published later this year.The 20 tales... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-27 14:52:08 UTC ]
I'm recommending eight Peruvian books in translation, from surrealist short stories to creative memoir to bloody historical fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-02-22 11:33:00 UTC ]
‘A White Heron’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). Published in 1886 in the collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the story is about a young girl who is approached by a hunter who offers her money if she will […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-02-08 18:00:40 UTC ]
‘Women’ is a 1970 poem by Alice Walker (born 1944), one of the best-known African American writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Although she is probably most famous for her 1982 novel The Color Purple, Walker has written short stories and numerous other novels. She also started […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-02-08 15:00:50 UTC ]
‘A Rose for Emily’ is one of the most widely studied American short stories of the twentieth century, but the subtle narrative style and William Faulkner’s use of symbolism are often difficult to interpret. Starting with the ‘rose’ in the story’s title, the text is rich with symbols whose... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-02-03 18:00:07 UTC ]
OpenAI’s ChatGPT’s AI chatbot is so good, too many people are using it, crushing its servers. So the company is debuting a paid ChatGPT Plus service, which will launch in the coming weeks. ChatGPT will cost $20 per month, but don’t despair. OpenAI says that it still plans to offer a... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2023-02-01 21:57:26 UTC ]