Monday, December 22, 2014

Ghosts of my Past, or Why I Can't Write Short Stories

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Christmas is always about the past. Ebenezer Scrooge's first and most poignant visit is with the ghost of Christmas Past.  And Truman...
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read: The Short Story as Quintessential Narrative Art

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I ran across Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read recently while doing the research for my blog post on Best Books for 2014. A...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Hilary Mantel's "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher"

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Hilary Mantel must be chortling in her chops now that the BBC has decided to broadcast her story "The Assassination of Margaret That...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Best Short Story Collections of 2014--According to the Experts

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I have recently checked  the "Best Books of 2014" postings for the following twenty different newspapers, magazines, and websit...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

The Magic of Alice Munro: Family Furnishings: Selected Stories--1995-2014

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Back in May, when I participated in the Alice Munro Symposium at the University of Ottawa, I asked Munro's U.S. publisher and U.S. age...
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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Best American Short Stories 2014--Thumbnail Comments

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I like the editing method of Best American Short Stories better than the method of O. Henry Prize Stories .  In the latter, the 20 stori...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

O. Henry Prize Stories 2014--Thumbnail Comments

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I have been living with the 2014 Best American Short Stories and the 2014 O. Henry Prize Stories for the past several weeks, and I am sor...
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