Reading the Short Story

Well, I have spent the last couple of weeks rereading the rest of the stories in O. Henry Prize Stories: 2016 , in the hope that I would ...

One of my reservations about the O. Henry Prize Stories is that the twenty stories published each year seem solely the choices of the se...

Most of the longer stories in Best British Short Stories 2016 are in the final quarter of the book, approximately 20 pages each. Nicholas...

John Saul, "Song of the River" Two women, no longer in their twenties, move in together in a  place near the Thames in a sect...

The second five stories in Best British Short Stories 2016 seem to depend on an intertextual literary context, using works of literature...

I am sometimes accused of "spoiling" stories by writing about them in some detail before readers have a chance to read them, ...

The British are more generous giving awards for short stories than the Americans.  The only American short story award of significant value...