Monday, April 22, 2013

Jamie Quatro's I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE: Pardon my Skepticism

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It is not often that James Wood, Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard and a staff writer/critic for The New Yorke...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Ron Rash's NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

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I have read all the stories in Ron Rash’s previous two major collections: Chemistry and Other Stories , Picador Paperback Original, 2007; ...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

The Concept Story: Karen Russell's VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE

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It’s a rare pleasure when, at the same time, two out of ten books on various “best-seller” lists are collections of short stories--whi...
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Jess Walter's WE LIVE IN WATER: Stories for the Beach, not the Study

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 Although I have spent a long career trying to teach students how to appreciate “great” short stories, I accept the fact that a short stor...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Junot Diaz's Story "Miss Lora"--"This is Some Real Shit?"

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When I read that Junot Diaz had won the Sunday Times Short Story Award for his story “Miss Lora,” I swore I was not going to say a frickin...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

George Saunders’ Perceptive Understanding of the Short Story as a Narrative Form

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When George Saunders' first collection of stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews, with...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Claire Vaye Watkins' BATTLEBORN: My Favorite for The Story Prize--2013

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I must admit, the first notices I saw of Claire Vaye Watkins’ debut collection of stories, Battleborn, made me drop my shoulders in a sigh...