Reading the Short Story

Thoughts on reading and studying the short story by a guy who's read and written about a lot of short stories.

Showing posts with label Hemingway. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Hemingway. Show all posts

Monday, July 4, 2011

Haunted by Hemingway

A half century ago on July 2, 1961, the day Ernest Hemingway’s body was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Idaho, I ha...

Monday, January 31, 2011

Authors on the Short Story--Paris Review Interviews: Part I

In preparing for my presentation at the April Angers conference, “The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English,” I have thought it...

Friday, February 26, 2010

Artifice and Artificiality in the Short Story: A Defense

In this week’s post, I ask your patience while I try to provide something of a theoretical context for my argument against “realism,” and fo...

Sunday, March 8, 2009

More on Short Fiction and Film: "Hills Like White Elephants "and "Brokeback Mountain"

In a “Comment” on my earlier post on fiction and film, Lee suggests that film adaptations of short stories may be more effective than I have...

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