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.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Short Story Month 2010--Best American Short Stories: 2009 and O. Henry Award Stories: 2010

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The Best American Short Stories 2009 came out in Oct. last year; The Pen/O.Henry Prize Stories: 2010 came out in April of this. With twen...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Short Story Month 2010: Pinckney Benedict's "Zog-19" and Alyson Hagy's "The Sin Eaters"

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Alyson Hagy, “The Sin Eaters” I enjoyed “The Sin Eaters” but not in the way I enjoy short stories, rather in the way I enjoy a chapter in a ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Short Story Month 2010: Pinckney Benedict's "Mercy" and Alyson Hagy's "Oil and Gas"

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Pinckney Benedict, “Mercy” ( Miracle Boy and Other Stories ) Sure, this is a simple story. But it is a hard story for me to resist. I tri...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Short Story Month, May 2010: Pinckney Benedict's "Bridge of Sighs" and Alyson Hagy's Brief Lives of the Trainmen""

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More Comments from my discussion of stories from Pinckney Benedict's Miracle Boy and Other Stories and Alyson Hagy's Ghosts of Wyom...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Short Story Month 2010: "Miracle Boy" by Pinckney Benedict and "Border" by Alyson Hagy

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To celebrate May as Short Story month, Dan Wickett, editor of Dzanc Books, has arranged for several writers, reviewers, bloggers, critics, a...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Short Story Month 2010: Atlantic Monthly Stories

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When I was in high school in a little town in the mountains of Kentucky in the late 1950’s, I worked afternoons and holidays at East Kentuck...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Short Story Month 2010: Atlantic Monthly Fiction Supplement

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The concept of The Atlantic Monthly began in April, 1857, when Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, ...
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