Reading the Short Story

Today, Wednesday, November 16, 2011, is the third anniversary of this blog—“Reading the Short Story.” In that three-year period I have p...

I had just finished reading Steven Millhauser’s new book, We Others: New and Selected Stories , when I received my copy of Best American...

In her Introduction to The Best American Short Stories: 2011 , Geraldine Brooks admits that when she read the 120 stories preselected and ...

Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams , published in a whopping 128-page hardcover (with lots of white space) by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux two mon...

As a result of her tenacious adherence to an unfamiliar narrative genre and an esoteric complex of theological themes, few twentieth-centu...

My thanks to Dex and Phillip for responding to my last post about entertainment stories vs. literary stories. Dex suggests t...

David Means, “El Morro” For the last few weeks, I have been meaning to get back to David Means’ story “El Morro,” which appeared in t...