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.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Is the Short Story an Obsessive, Unnatural Form?

The short story's dependence on tightly unified form rather than mimetic methods has been its central aesthetic characteristic sin...

Sunday, September 16, 2012

C.S Lewis on the Hidden Element in Stories and the Significance of Rereading

I first read C. S. Lewis’s essay “On Stories” several years ago in a collection entitled Essays Presented to Charles Williams (1947),...

Monday, September 10, 2012

200 Short Stories I admire From Boccaccio up to the 21st Century

Bill, of the Boulder Great Books Discussion Group, asked me recently if I might post a list of my 100 favorite short stories of all time, ...

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