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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their second collection of ""flash fiction"" stories-aka ""short shorts""-Thomas and Shapard have pulled together almost 80 works that are consistently swift and powerful, distilling the ...

“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 ...

Madeline Miller’s Galatea, a short story first published in 2013 and now available in a slim 60-page stand-alone edition, begins with an intriguing question: What if Ovid’s Pygmalion was the first ...

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 ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of literature. This week’s installment asks you to identify the titles and authors of memorable short ...

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 ...

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.