Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Happy Bloomsday! Joyce's Contribution to the Modern Short Story

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Today, June 16, is Bloomsday, which James Joyce made forever famous as the day Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedelus were out and about in ...
Monday, June 15, 2015

"Wow!" vs. "Whoa!" in the Short Story

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                    In response to my recent piece on V. S. Pritchett, Pearl Street posted a comment on what Louis Menand once called the ...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

V.S. Pritchett: Neglected British Master of the Short Story

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Two observations on which most writers and critics agree about V.S. Pritchett are:  (1) He was one of England's best short-story writ...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Short Story Month 2015--Guy de Maupassant, "La Horla"

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After the success of Boule de Suif ("Ball of Fat")  in 1880, the touching little story of the prostitute who reluctantly goes ...
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Short Story Month--2015--Joseph Conrad, "The Secret Sharer"

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As Eudora Welty once said, "The first thing we see about a story is its mystery.  And in the best stories, we return at the last to se...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Short Story Month 2015--O. Henry, "The Cop and the Anthem"

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O. Henry poses the same problem for a history of the short story as Bret Harte does, for as with Harte, O. Henry's influence far excee...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Short Story Month 2015--George Moore, "Julia Cahill's Curse" and "Homesickness"

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In Ireland, the beginnings of the modern short story is credited to George Moore.  Such critics of the short story as H. E. Bates and Fran...