Reading the Short Story

Here is my fourth blog on Authors on the Short Story. I have my Angers presentation completed and will tell you more about it after the conf...

I have finished a rough draft of the presentation I am making next month at the conference on the short story at Angers, France. The title ...

The corned beef cooked in the slow cooker last night. The potatoes, carrots, onions, and cabbage are cooking now. The Guiness is chilling ...

Alice Munro once said that originally she planned to write a few stories to get some practice and then to write novels, but “I got used to w...

I have always had this nagging notion that if I could figure out what makes a short story by a great short story writer so…well, you know…gr...

This completes my survey of the Paris Review Interviews. I plan to collect more author comments on the short story from interviews and ess...

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...