This summer we're beginning a contest with a simple premise: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less... Three-Minute Fiction: Send Us Your Stories ...
Size doesn’t matter, but at 784 pages, “The Collected Stories of Diane Williams,” new this month, outweighs the collected short fiction of Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Gabriel García Márquez and almost ...
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Stephen King's Mister Yummy Short Story Becoming A Movie
Adaptations of Stephen King’s works are not slowing down anytime soon, and a new adaptation of one of his short stories is ...
From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore’s collection approaches Southern identity from a ...
“Simplify, simplify,” advised Henry David Thoreau, to which Ralph Waldo Emerson wryly, and wisely, replied: “One ‘simplify’ would have sufficed.” On a similar theme, Ernest Hemingway is said to have ...
Lydia Millet's Atavists: Stories has a somewhat misleading title. Is it full of stories? Yes. But they share characters, themes, worries, and even a subplot about watching a certain kind of ...
Remember when video on the Internet was painful? There were low bandwidth caps; QuickTime, RealPlayer, and Windows Media were the formats of choice; and finding good video was a challenge. Then ...
Dufresne (I Don’t Like Where This Is Going) has authored eight novels and two previous writing guides, and that background comes through in this assured and canny guide to writing very short stories.
Several years ago, Lydia Davis made a decision never to set foot in France again. Why such a prohibition—for the translator of Madame Bovary and In Search of Lost Time, a writer who spent two ...
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Why Margaret Atwood Wrote a New, Very Short Story
The Canadian province of Alberta has instituted a new book ban for school libraries, and one famous Canadian writer isn't taking it sitting down. Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood responded to ...
For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...
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