Reading the Short Story

I read a couple of conflicting reviews of the new film "The Raven" this morning in which John Cusac k plays Edgar Allen Poe.  Th...

Let’s say that you are unfamiliar with the work and reputation of James Joyce (unlikely). What if you discovered Joyce’s “The Dead” i...

The three stories that Joyce categorized as being about “public life” in Dubliners —“Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “A Mother,” and “G...

"A Little Cloud" Whenever I read Joyce’s “A Little Cloud,” I always think of a character named Joe Btfspik, created many years ...

One of the most basic problems reading short stories is that often readers are not interested in the same things that writers are int...

Each April for the past six years, the Dublin City Public Libraries has sponsored “One City, One Book,” which encourages everyone to spend...

As I continue to work on a sort of “how-to” book about strategies for reading the short story, I have, of course, been thinking about...