Reading the Short Story

Ishmael Reed and his longtime partner Carla Blank edited a collection of sixty-three short fiction pieces early in the year entitled Pow Wow...

As an introit to her interview with Jay McInerney in The Observer , Rachel Cook says, “There are some men who you wish would grow up, and so...

Jay McInerney says in the preface to his recent collection of stories How it Ended , “Like most novelists I cut my teeth writing short stori...

Congratulations to Kirstin Valdez Quade, who has placed a story, “The Five Wounds,” in the July 27 issue of The New Yorker . According to ...

I just read an interview with Junot Diaz on Narrative . The Interviewer, Reese Kwon, said what surprised her about last year’s National En...

The July 20th issue of The New Yorker includes three letters about Louis Menand’s “Critic at Large” piece on the rise of creative writing...

Charles May, who has taught and written about the short story for over forty years, has finally (gasp!) published his first short story. I b...