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.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

David Means' "The Mighty Shannon" and Andre's Dubus III's "Listen Carefully As Our Options Have Changed"

I have long had an uneasy suspicion that really good short stories embody a philosophic, psychological, theological, or interpersonal t...

Friday, January 24, 2014

Samar Farah Fitzgerald's "Where Do You Go?" and Rolf Yngve's "The Quail"--also Raymond Carver's "Why Don't You Dance?"

One of the stories in the 2013 O. Henry Prize Stories that intrigued me, but that I did not have a chance to discuss in December, is Sama...

Saturday, January 4, 2014

A. E. Coppard, WEEP NOT MY WANTON

James Doyle of London's Turnpike Books was kind enough to send me an attractive paperback edition of selected short stories by the gr...

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2013 O.Henry Award Stories--Part II

Laura Furman, the series editor for the O. Henry Prize Stories (formerly, and temporarily, the Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories {What was that a...

Thursday, December 12, 2013

2013 O. Henry Prize Stories: Part I

During the past week, I have been reading the twenty stories in the 2013 O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Although there are stories by...

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

More Good Stories from Best American Short Stories 2013

Antonya Nelson, “Chapter Two” This is a story about the uses of story. The central character, a woman named Hil, tired of telling h...

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