Reading the Short Story

Whether a given short story “works” effectively for a given reader depends on many factors, but perhaps the most important determinants ...

One of the most common questions that audiences ask authors at the end of short story “readings” is a variant of the following:  “Where did...

Jennifer Haigh, “Paramour” Jennifer Haigh is a 2002 graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.  Since graduation, she has published four ...

November 2012, marks the fourth anniversary of my blog, Reading the Short Story.   In those four years, I have posted over two hundred bri...

Happy Halloween to all you folks who celebrate this holiday.  It is one of my favorite holidays because it gives participants the opport...

Sherman Alexie has recently published an inevitable “New and Selected Stories” collection.  It is entitled Blasphemy and contains thirty...

Once or twice every year, a collection of short stories is published to such critical acclaim that my own lukewarm reaction to it make...