I gave up the idea of the biographical sketches and settled finally upon writing a series of short stories, using the material I had got from Ross and his friends, building upon it, inventing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days Before, I would have written something—a short story or a blog post or just random thoughts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Let me tell you a short story," she says. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But since the books won’t arrive for a while, I’m going to have them read short stories and plays that they’ll be able to relate to. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I slipped out a thin collection of poems and short stories. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I produced poems, short stories, articles, even ideas for advertising campaigns. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kat writes lines in it that she wants to use in her short stories. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wrote a short story about an old man who lived all by himself in a house down the block. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon Cordoba, a boy of fifteen, has written a number of short stories considered to be antirevolutionary. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your short story was selected as the second-place winner in our 17th annual Short Stack Contest! Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mom was also a writer and was always typing away on novels, short stories, plays, poetry, fables, and children’s books, which she illustrated herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Toby had just finished a quiz on a short story called “Bullet in the Brain” when the speaker in the classroom came alive and asked him to come to the office. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He wrote magazine essays and articles and a book of short stories. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A week earlier she’d made photocopies of the first chapter, a short story Ralph Ellison published as “Battle Royal.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Poems and short stories I wrote, expressing sorrow and loneliness, were awarded high grades. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily had left her binder, The Gold-Bug, and the Poe short story collection on the table when they went to chat with Raven, so now she closed those. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A sculpture of a man’s head sat in front of the expansive windows, and thanks to the small illustration on the cover of the short story collection Hollister had given Emily, she recognized it immediately. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I drafted the piece in a week or two, fiddled with it for another week, then published it as a separate short story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s read each of the short stories and poems and articles a dozen times. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And yesterday, after class, he’d shoved the short story anthology deep into his locker, refusing to bring it home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ring was not exactly flashy, but the shine coming off it told a short story: the kid had some money. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I handed her one of my short stories. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The collection included “The Gold-Bug” as well as several other short stories, like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and another one called “The Black Cat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was not even allowed to republish an article about literary ciphers in Edgar Allan Poe’s nineteenth-century short story “The Gold-Bug.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

If this were a short story, it would mean something. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Emily had left her binder, The Gold-Bug, and the Poe short story collection on the table when they went to chat with Raven, so now she closed those. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Last year, we learned about novels and short stories and plays. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

About halfway through the book Emily turned to a short story called “The Black Cat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The man had just sold six short stories to the New Yorker and six to Jay Cee. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Despite Houseman’s skill in writing short stories and theatre scripts, he had no experience with radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“When I discovered the Poe manuscript, an idea clicked for me. I had long been a fan of Poe’s short story ‘The Gold-Bug’ and thought it would be fun to emulate the treasure hunt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A turning point in my writing was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I handed him some of my research papers and short stories, which I’d printed out at the library. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read the letter as another student in the class did irreparable damage to the French language and a short story by de Maupassant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to read short stories aloud, taking all the parts, providing all the sound effects. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Du Bois included in his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, a brilliant but haunting short story. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, We started reading a short story in my English class called “The Last Spin.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Bell asked us to write short compositions analyzing short stories we read for class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There were racks loaded with mysteries, Newbery winners, historical fiction, biographies, and short stories. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

For 4 weeks, she’s been giving me the class readings to look over ahead of time—3 short stories and our 1st assigned novel, The Call of the Wild. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A sculpture of a man’s head sat in front of the expansive windows, and thanks to the small illustration on the cover of the short story collection Hollister had given Emily, she recognized it immediately. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“When I discovered the Poe manuscript, an idea clicked for me. I had long been a fan of Poe’s short story ‘The Gold-Bug’ and thought it would be fun to emulate the treasure hunt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she loved to write short stories. Little romantic stories. She wouldn’t let anybody read them. But she’d always be scribbling in her notebook.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

So when Ms. Fleming hands out a short story, I try to count the words quickly. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For one good enough reason, Advanced Writing 24-A loaded me up with thirty-eight short stories to drag tearfully home for the weekend. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I told him I had written short stories in the leather-bound notebook he’d given me, but he didn’t remember the notebook. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a kid in freshman AP English who writes these great fantasy short stories, and he submitted a few of them. I picked one of those, too.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I’ve written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forgot to pack her gigantic book of short stories because everything was last minute. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

That same night, I wrote my first short story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We would like to see whatever you do, especially if you were to write a short story or two. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The collection included “The Gold-Bug” as well as several other short stories, like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and another one called “The Black Cat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

English teachers assigned the composition of short stories and poems. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys from earlier reminded her of a short story she’d finished working on this morning, something for her eyes only that has kept her distracted in the quiet times at work. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For homework, Mr. Daniels said we have to write a paper describing how we feel about a short story he read today. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

About halfway through the book Emily turned to a short story called “The Black Cat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For years, she had composed poems, scribbled down short story ideas, and dreamed of publication. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In Maupassant's famous short story "The Necklace", it is all her worldly prospects. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z

Ironically, all three were his own books: the short story collection "In Our Time," the sweeping war drama "A Farewell to Arms," and the gender-bending "The Garden of Eden." The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

As Roxane Gay’s short story collection “Difficult Women” moves into its fourth week on our bestseller list, the author is making headlines. Books: Why now is the time to read a 5-year-old book and more from books at the L.A. Times 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

The short story is that it’s going to have a few songs on the radio, and you’ll probably forget about them the moment the next Katy Perry song comes on. Britney Spears’ “Most Personal” Record Lacks Personality 2013-12-05T10:45:38Z

Nichols has in fact been quoted as saying his film is "kind of like if Sam Peckinpah had directed a short story by Mark Twain". Mud – review 2013-05-11T23:07:24Z

The novelist and short story writer is a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and this latest work is his 25th book. Spare Times for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Bengal writes short stories and nonfiction; recent and forthcoming work appears in Pitchfork Review, Guernica and on Vogue.com. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“My novel kept getting shorter and shorter, becoming almost a short story,” she told Washingtonian. Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Starting in 1991, he published short stories set in Tibet, written in both Tibetan and Chinese, about individuals confronted with sweeping changes. Pema Tseden, Pioneering Tibetan Filmmaker, Is Dead at 53 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

A volume of short stories, Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings, appeared along the way. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

And four hours still doesn’t cover the whole tale, which spans 25 years and was really a skein of short stories raveled around the title character, Olive. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Yet everything combines to create a book of unforgettable short stories. Harris Burdick fans write new tales for drawings 2011-11-05T04:51:58Z

I also bought a collection of short stories by Dostoyevsky. How Bibliophiles Flirt 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

The anthology of short stories, essays and poems features a diversity of voices, whose writing highlights Michigan’s northernmost reaches. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a world apart 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

This is one of four books, each containing five short stories about a pair of amphibian friends. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

"I'm tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy," Superman said in a short story in the issue, Action Comics No. 900 from the Time Warner Inc unit DC Comics. Superman threatens to renounce U.S. citizenship 2011-04-29T11:09:47Z

The television series "Justified," on which he is credited as a writer, was based on his short story "Fire in the Hole." New Elmore Leonard stories to be published in June 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

She loved writing in journals and creating plays and short stories. Real-life family mystery inspires debut novel ‘I Can Make This Promise’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

The recent college graduate and aspiring fiction writer had moved back into her mother’s house; she spent her days polishing short stories and binge-watching episodes of “The Walking Dead.” She Wasn’t on PCP, but Her Own Body Made Her Hallucinate 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

His 1997 collection of short stories, "Bear and His Daughter," was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. ArtsBeat: Robert Stone to Publish First Novel in Decade 2013-01-17T13:00:45Z

At 76, she has spent four decades publishing short stories – at least 250 of them – in regional or academic periodicals. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z

It's more a collection of short stories, a "marshalling of facts", than the flowing novel that her superlative style deserves. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

The book includes snapshots, short stories, essays and poems — including the two excerpted below. Read James Franco's poetry about 'Spring Breakers' and Sean Penn, excerpted from his forthcoming book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Our short stories, or even our novels, all are child's play in comparison with his works. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z

Hopkin is joined on the judging panel by Irish poet and novelist Thomas McCarthy and Chris Power, a music and book critic, and the author of the Brief survey of the short story series on guardian.co.uk/books. Strong showing for Irish writers on Frank O'Connor shortlist 2011-07-12T13:35:13Z

Your next book is Roald Dahl’s Taste, a short story about a famous wine taster. You can be a wine snob too! 2013-01-02T12:45:00Z

All of these stories began with pieces of dreams and memories that became short stories, which I explored on the page until they revealed elements of universal truth. The enigmatic gift from my estranged mother that I decided to keep 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Libération newspaper recently ran a short story about a fictional president who gets his wife pregnant in the hope of improving his election chances. Carla Bruni hoping to become model mother to Nicolas Sarkozy's child 2011-01-03T18:18:00Z

De la Tour says that the 1930s stage play "departed enormously" from Christie's short story. Whodunnit? 2010-04-16T07:23:00Z

Publishers are, too, which might explain why April is front-loaded with so many big books, including biographies, essays, short stories and knockout novels. 10 books to read in April 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The film is based on the short story Animal Rescue by US author Dennis Lehane, who also wrote previous crime novels Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River. Last Gandolfini film shows in Toronto 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

But one in particular spoke to my writerly sensibilities, and prompted me immediately to write a short story. Amid the pandemic, a writer finds inspiration in century-old travel stories 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Which is an understandable assumption, I guess, if one writes a 400-page novel based on a short story, you should like it. Essayist Sloane Crosley reveals the literary bad man who inspired her first novel 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Means, a master of the short story, leaps comfortably across points of view: The title story focuses on two exhausted health care workers, while another is told from the perspective of a dachshund. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Mexico is full of pits filled with the bodies of people who disappeared,” Herbert wrote in his short story “Z.” Treating a Historic Massacre as an Active Crime Scene 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Damon Runyon's 1933 short story "What, No Butler?" is an obvious riff on the cliché and PG Wodehouse's 1957 comic novel "Something Fishy" was published in the US as "The Butler Did It". Why do we think the butler did it? 2010-12-09T12:57:00Z

Yet Ballard’s lasting importance really lies in his extraordinary short stories, about which Louis says nothing. Review | The tale of the ‘lost’ Gutenberg Bible and other books about. . .books 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

As Ms. Ladensohn arrived in New Haven, Ms. Shepherd-Oppenheim was called to work as a stage manager for two showings of a student adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Wedding Reception.” It Was Obvious from Day 1 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

I was amazed by the novels, but I especially liked the short stories, the essays and miscellany. Two Readings with Robert Stone 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Character studies, short stories, finally a novel, then another novel. Why didn’t I self-publish? 2013-09-06T00:00:00Z

The animated series “Pantheon” combines multiple Liu short stories into one interconnected drama. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in September 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Joy Williams will give a free reading of her new collection of short stories, “The Visiting Privilege,” at McNally Jackson in SoHo on Saturday at 7 p.m. Brooklyn Book Festival Ushers in a Season of Literary Delights 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

In “Chronicles: Volume One,” his elliptical 2004 memoir, he claimed that the lyrics had been inspired by Anton Chekhov short stories. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

When you pick up the receiver, instead of a dialling tone, you hear someone reading a short story. Invisible Dot's hoax phoneboxes have a story to tell 2010-08-08T20:44:00Z

The book is less a novel, really, than a series of very cleverly interlinked short stories. A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

So he’s making his Broadway debut as the leading man, director and adapter of the Raymond Carver short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Michael Keaton, the Angry Birdman 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

She won acclaim for her debut short story collection “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” and her novels “The Vagrants” and “Kinder Than Solitude.” Yiyun Li’s brave look at depression and the consoling power of literature 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

"If the movie's the short story, the series is the novel," says Rodriguez. Dusk Till Dawn becomes TV series 2013-11-07T12:50:43Z

His other short stories and poems include The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Oscar Wilde: Google doodle features The Picture of Dorian Gray 2010-10-16T01:13:00Z

It takes place in a floating world between the Dominican Republic and America's eastern seaboard, between Spanish and English, between the novel and the short story. Junot Díaz: my inspiration for writing This Is How You Lose Her 2012-12-30T00:05:37Z

I read Turgenev, two of the greatest short stories ever written, ‘First Love’ and ‘The Torrents of Spring.’ Struggle Over, Philip Roth Reflects on Putting Down His Pen 2012-11-18T03:52:41Z

Miranda Dickinson, author of Fairytale of New York, will write a new short story starring the winning bidder. Authors launch literary auction for Japan 2011-03-15T17:41:14Z

I knew of Glynn’s work thanks to a few short stories that he published in The Paris Review, where I worked. An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The truth is, Johnson’s later work, while less exquisite and heart-rending than “Jesus’ Son,” is in many respects more interesting than his earlier high-MFA-style short stories. It’s time to embrace Denis Johnson’s beautiful corruption 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

This might be the time to note that “The Drop” was written by Dennis Lehane, who adapted it from his short story “Animal Rescue.” ‘The Drop’ Unfolds in a Brooklyn Underworld 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Her memoir was eight years in the making — she had previously published a number of poems and short stories — and when it was released in 2011 it was nothing if not controversial. Margaux Fragoso, Memoirist Who Wrote Hauntingly of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 38 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

The author of more than a dozen novels, as well as short stories, essays and criticism, Ms. Brooke-Rose was one of relatively few Britons to maintain a long association with experimental fiction. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z

She featured in my brief survey of the short story series in February. A quick look at 2010 in short stories 2010-12-30T09:00:05Z

I belonged to a writer’s group when I was a student and they kept panning my short stories without feedback so I focused on my tech-writing class. How to write a novel 2013-02-13T01:00:00Z

But then remembered that I recently read a short story by Ted Chiang — “The Great Silence” — that just floored me. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The prize, announced Thursday, is given for making a "significant contribution" to the art of short story writing. Richard Bausch wins $30,000 story prize 2013-04-25T13:35:08Z

Cooper was known for work such as the novel "Family" and the short story collections "A Piece of Mine," "The Matter of Life" and "Homemade Love." Author J. California Cooper has died 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Stefan Zweig was extremely famous throughout the world as a writer of novellas and short stories, as well as popular histories and biographies, so it is remarkable that he wrote only one full-length novel. Rereading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 2011-07-15T21:55:08Z

The star of this deliciously noir short story collection, Maud, is nearly 90, with a cloud of “snow-white” hair twisted into a thick “old-fashioned chignon,” and she hobbles about her neighborhood with a wheeled walker. Three New Chilling Page-Turners Feature Unlikely Psychopaths 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Next week, Hanks will release his first collection of short stories, “Uncommon Type,” inspired by his passion for typewriters. Tom Hanks, Ann Patchett and the man in her basement 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Oscar-winning actor brings to life his debut collection of 17 loosely linked short stories. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

The novella takes up more than a third of this brisk, hard-boiled book, which also includes seven short stories. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

We're conducting a practical experiment in literature from around the world on the Books site this week, with a series of specially commissioned short stories on the theme of water. Guardian Books podcast: Literature in translation and water stories 2013-03-15T14:06:09Z

Wattar also wrote plays as well as short stories such as "The Martyrs Are Coming Back This Week" and "Smoke From My Heart." Friends say top Algerian writer Tahar Wattar dies 2010-08-12T20:48:00Z

She also read widely — Nabokov and Bor­ges were her two favorite contemporary authors — and began to work on her first short stories, followed by a novel, the often brutal “Shadow Dance.” The unconventional life of Angela Carter — prolific author, reluctant feminist 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Another early story, “The Sorrows of Captain Schreiber,” won an O. Henry award as one of the best short stories of 1954. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z

Rainey appeared in your short story collection "Normal People Don't Live Like This." Dylan Landis on her book 'Rainey Royal' and wild 1970s New York 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

So there's an enormous gap from to the earliest short stories with their very dispossessed, alienated characters who are living in a city with no name, often in a time that's not fixed. Preview: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-25T12:31:24Z

Love, the theme of these brilliant short stories, is innocuous enough. Start the year in crime with Agatha Christie's children 2011-01-06T00:05:04Z

Admired by Eudora Welty and Alice Munro among others, Spencer wrote the novels “The Snare” and “The Salt Line” and dozens of short stories, most recently for the 2014 collection “Starting Over.” Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The story was then written quickly, finished within a week, driven, I think, partly by the rage over the election and partly by the sorrow of losing a master of short stories. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

I love novels and short stories, but for some reason poetry evades me. Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

In a career spanning 56 years, she has published more than 40 books that crisscross the literary spectrum, from historical novels to science fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s books and nonfiction. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

National Book Award finalist Phil Klay's "Redeployment," a book of short stories about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rounded out the top five. 'Everything I Never Told You' is Amazon's book of the year 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

So Davenport took off the shelf several award-winning short stories she had written 20 years ago and packaged them in an e-book, "Cannibal Nights," available on Amazon. Amazon joins with authors, cuts out publishers 2011-10-18T17:08:24Z

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a famous American feminist and sociologist who wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which will make you question your own sanity. What to Expect When Your Name is Charlotte 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

When female authors get nods, they are troubling ones: Emily Dickinson, whose name Leonard invokes to taunt Martin, and Jane Austen, to whom Kate alludes at the beginning of a short story. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z

A collection of short stories curated by Pulitzer Prize winning author Anthony Doerr. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Their thread of the plot has a short story’s simplicity: She scrutinizes his new self, with constantly changing feelings, then has to decide whether to terminate him, to let him die again. Review: ‘Upload’ Asks Old Questions With New Technology 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Rowling will release 12 Harry Potter short stories this month in celebration of the 12 days of Christmas, The Telegraph reports. J.K. Rowling to release Harry Potter stories each day until Christmas 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

In the past, I’ve found the recording of this Philip Glass “pocket opera,” adapted from Kafka’s short story, to be a bit of a slog. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

“Processed Cheese” reminds me, in both tone and theme, of George Saunders’s short stories “Sea Oak” and “The Semplica-Girl Diaries,” or even Erskine Caldwell’s “Tobacco Road.” A Bag of Cash Falls From the Sky. Trouble Is Close Behind. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lenz wrote several dozen novels and books of short stories and was regularly at the top of best-seller lists in Germany. Siegfried Lenz, Novelist of Germany’s Past, Dies at 88 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing,” J. D. Salinger confessed to The New York Times in 1974, nine years after his final short story appeared in The New Yorker. The 22 Lost Salinger Stories 2013-09-07T09:45:11Z

Start with Morris's top five short story writing tips, and find other authors' writing advice in the Your Stories section of the site. Enter our Morris Gleitzman short story writing competition 2012-05-30T13:22:58Z

For a touching collection of short stories from the 1990s Croatian war try Do Angels Cry?: The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z

The play modernizes the message a bit by turning Beasley's African-American servant, who in the short story speaks in a groaningly stereotypical dialect, into a crisply spoken white factotum. Booth Tarkington's Midwest captured in Taproot show 2011-12-15T21:00:12Z

Alice Munro had a short story about two women presenting such a question. My backup mom 2013-02-27T23:30:00Z

I admired “Cat Person,” the viral New Yorker short story, but found Kristen Roupenian’s collection, “You Know You Want This,” shockingly shallow. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

His first published short story, “Gold Coast,” appeared in the Atlantic Monthly the year Mr. McPherson turned 25. James Alan McPherson, first black writer to win Pulitzer Prize in fiction, dies at 72 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The more conventional literary remains in the archive include more than 450 manuscripts, correspondence and research materials relating to his more than 40 books, numerous short stories and screenplays. Elmore Leonard's Papers (and Hawaiian Shirts) Go to University 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Lovelace, like her character Betsy, was determined, imaginative, and a born writer; she published her first short story when she was eighteen, in the Los Angeles Times Magazine. The Little Syria of Deep Valley 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Last year, Esquire commissioned her to write a short story from the voice and perspective of Hillary Clinton. 20 Years After Diana’s Death, a Happier Ending Imagined 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

By the time he won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for “The Glass Menagerie,” in 1945, he had written at least six full-length apprentice plays, innumerable one-acts, poems, and short stories. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

He returned to Columbia College to obtain a degree in fiction writing in 2008, and his work appeared in an anthology of noir short stories called "Sin" later that year. Sheffield's owner Ric Hess dies at 48 2011-01-18T19:16:37Z

In her short story collection, “You Are Free,” the only truly unfettered character is, pointedly, a fetus. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The ledger lists his many short stories, books, and adaptations for stage and screen. F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online 2013-04-28T15:02:11Z

Writing from the inside of her women, Shange made wonders, such as her short story, “Faye,” which we are lucky enough to have a recording of her reading. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

He was so taken with her short story Static, entered for the 2009 prize, that he asked if she had written anything longer. Independents' day? Small presses make up 50% of Booker shortlist 2012-10-10T16:37:05Z

And she filled in the blanks, expanding the short story’s Bigtree family and explaining how these snow-white Ohioans wound up masquerading as Indians on a swamp island in the Everglades. Books of The Times: In Florida Slough With the Gators and Family Ghosts 2011-02-16T23:30:12Z

He put the book aside and wrote a collection of short stories instead. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Every book puts a new spin on a classic form: the biography, the short story, the campus novel. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Written and directed by Zoë Seaton for her Big Telly Theater Company, from Northern Ireland, this quick-witted frolic is adapted from Owen Booth’s short story of the same name. When Monsters Make the Best Husbands 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

I ejected him with a heavy heart - Revolutionary Road is a breathtaking book - but I felt that he was better regarded for his short stories than his novels. The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

He reminded audiences that the screenplay was an adaptation of a short story by Ms. Proulx. Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

From his first collection of short stories, “Kentucky Straight,” to now, the quality always astonishes. A Novel of Kentucky Noir, So Humane It’s Bathed in Light 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

It is Lahiri's first book of nonfiction, yet it contains two short stories. Jhumpa Lahiri falls in love with language again, exquisitely, by writing in Italian 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

His first novel "The Prisoner of Mirrors" was published in 2010 and in the same year won the fourth Laila al-Othman Prize, awarded for novels and short stories by young writers. Kuwait author wins Arabic book prize for tale of foreign workers 2013-04-23T17:30:13Z

Besides being the author of novels and short stories, Sarna is also an easygoing brief essayist, often linking his bookish “second thoughts” to his official sojourns in Britain, Russia and Afghanistan. A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Borges's stories agree with William Trevor's maxim that "you don't have to have a plot in a short story, but you do have to have a point". A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z

For seven years, on nights and weekends, she wrote fiction — often short stories — yet published nothing. To shill a ‘Mockingbird’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

At first, Ms. Collins said, she thought no one would publish these “literary short stories by an unknown dead black woman.” Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

And like the American controversialist, he was a prolific writer: he left behind more than 20 plays, three novels, tomes of short stories and a vast number of poems. A hundred years of Virgilio Piñera, l'enfant terrible of Cuban literature 2012-08-03T17:09:31Z

What led up to that transition and the almost immediate ascent into the realm of being a promising, well-published short story writer? 'The Escape Artist': Thomas Beller Talks About J. D. Salinger 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

If these examples of unused giveaway items made you think of the famous six-word short story often attributed to Ernest Hemingway — “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” — then you’re not alone. Buy Nothing is everything 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

A recent reversion to faith started with the rereading of two short stories. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z

Observer/Cape graphic short story prize Jonathan Cape and Comica have got together with The Observer to offer you the chance to see your work in print and win £1,000. Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

This one is a play with music derived from the short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” written in the early 1800s by German author E.T.A. This ‘Nutcracker’ doesn't pirouette

There are 56 short stories and four novels in the established canon of the Sherlock Holmes adventures. 'The House of Silk': a long-buried Sherlock Holmes mystery 2011-12-15T20:52:00Z

It started life as a very good short story. Wool by Hugh Howey – review 2013-01-09T08:00:16Z

For all his wanderlust, he found he kept returning to the same set of characters, who appeared in a handful of earlier short stories about a love triangle. Thomas Pletzinger: writing the world 2011-03-15T09:58:45Z

In one of his short stories, Henry James shrewdly cast Leighton as Lord Mellifont, "a public man with no corresponding private life". Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

Anyway, I wrote this one short story called “First Night.” "Queen of Erotica" Zane On How Fifty Shades Affects the Sexy-Book Scene 2012-08-01T14:33:06Z

And on Aug. 30, his new book did as well: "Stinetinglers," the first in a planned series of short stories for middle-graders. R.L. Stine reveals how Netflix's bloody "Fear Street" trilogy "loosened me up" 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

Rachel Cooke talks us through the graphic short stories shortlisted for the Observer/Cape/Comica prize, and proves that - far being a form for boys in comic shops - graphic literature now offers something for everyone. Guardian Books podcast: graphic novels, with Robert and Aline Crumb 2012-11-16T14:07:00Z

In an interview with The Paris Review in 1989, he defined the short story as “the art of the glimpse.” William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

He started with numerous short stories and radio plays and his work took off after his agent suggested he turn a radio play into a children's play. Paddington author writes new book 2014-04-08T14:38:24Z

A former wartime pilot, he also wrote short stories, several stage and screenplays and wrote for television shows. Against the bait and switch censorship of Roald Dahl 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Toibin is best known for "A Long Winter" and his short story collection "Mothers and Sons." Broadway awaits 'The Testament of Mary' 2013-01-08T23:31:05Z

Soloway and the other Transparent writers are accepting short stories from applicants. Transparent creator to recruit female transgender writer for second season 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Tilghman, who directs the creative writing program at the University of Virginia, is a short story writer as well as a novelist. In novel 'The Right-Hand Shore,' past is a burden 2012-04-30T17:11:11Z

In college, my peers and I were often told what short stories could not do. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

I can’t help but read this in a different way, however, as if it were a coded reference to Dahl’s four books of adult short stories. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Then I read a creepy short story called “Beyond the Flags,” by Kris Saknussemm, which appears in a new collection called “In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World.” The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Evans, who teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, talked about how short stories work, the evolving discussion of race in literature and publishing, and, in a way, her fear of commitment. Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

The 26 writers were brought together by Andrew Gulli, the editor of Strand magazine, which specialises in crime thrillers and mystery short stories. Writers unite for thriller novel 2011-07-05T11:11:20Z

Several of these episodes also serve as a reminder of what a masterful short story writer McCracken is. Review | It’s been 18 years since Elizabeth McCracken’s last novel. ‘Bowlaway’ was worth the wait. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

There were also two books of short stories, photography books for which he supplied the text and three books he edited for Library of America. Pete Hamill, Print Holdout, Goes Direct to E-Book 2010-08-11T21:03:00Z

Parsons says he's going to write a collection of short stories about life in the airport. Tony Parsons, that airport job was mine 2011-08-06T12:00:00Z

But when they were at their best, it was like a series of collected short stories involving the same characters. ArtsBeat: The Game Never Ends: David Simon on Wearying 'Wire' Love and the Surprising Usefulness of Twitter 2012-04-05T16:14:47Z

He leaves behind more than 50 novels and 100 short stories. Jack Vance tributes pour in after his death 2013-05-30T10:30:50Z

Bernstein himself directed “Little Miss Marker,” a 1980 release based on the Damon Runyon short story. Screenwriter Walter Bernstein dies at 101 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

The effect of “Machine” is similar to an anthology of short stories woven around a singular setting. ‘The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear’: an intriguing casting call 2013-08-01T21:38:40Z

"If you are an aficionado of the strange and uncanny short story," says Aickman, "you will find the only thing missing from Dark World is ... more of the same." Reader reviews roundup 2013-03-15T18:10:00Z

Novels meander through peaks and valleys; short stories often end by driving, swiftly and confidently, into a wall. 'The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story': the grand tradition of Irish fiction continues, with a modern twist 2011-03-12T00:44:21Z

An accomplished novelist and short story writer, she has been nominated for a National Book Award and teaches writing at Wesleyan. What Does Alzheimer’s Disease Do to a Marriage? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Such an aesthetic, moral or literary, infuses O’Connor’s work, from her first short story, “The Geranium” to her last, “Judgement Day.” Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a very difficult thing to write a short story. David Fincher Tries Animation in ‘Love, Death + Robots’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

They were originally called the Ronnie Drew Group but soon changed their name to the Dubliners, after the collection of short stories by James Joyce. Barney McKenna, Banjo Player in the Dubliners, Dies at 72 2012-04-09T23:01:58Z

Restraint and a formal writing style, by a philosophy graduate from Cambridge University, give a tone of melancholy to this spectacularly accomplished, chilly debut collection of short stories about thwarted lives and opportunities missed. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

This may seem a better beginning for a short story than for a song. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

But what about that other fellow, the protagonist of 33 novels and more than 50 short stories by Dame Agatha Christie? Review | Who is the greatest fictional detective? A new book reminds us why it’s Poirot. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

As a child in Glastonbury, Conn., Bushnell acted sporadically, though she spent most of her free time scribbling short stories and riding her horses. ‘I Don’t Know What a Carrie Is’: Candace Bushnell Works It Out Onstage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Ladee Hubbard’s most recent book is the short story collection “The Last Suspicious Holdout.” Grief, Pain and the Lingering Impact of Trauma on Black Women’s Bodies 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Lydia Davis’s short stories are difficult to describe, but people like to try. Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z

For sheer inventiveness of form, the short stories of David Means. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

I've written 14 novels, am working on a play, a short story, an article. Stella Duffy: 'Some people might think: "Working class, lesbian, left wing – ugh!", but they'd find I'm fun to have a drink with' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

The deal covers all of the 19 novels and 125 short stories in the estate, as well as other works, with the exception of those currently contracted with other parties. HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner 2011-11-30T19:55:19Z

Since turning 80 he has published four novels, two volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z

I always work like that with short stories. Talking with Naja Marie Aidt about her short story collection 'Baboon' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

He's won a major short story award, the Prix Goncourt, and published half a dozen adventure travelogues in his native France. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T13:30:01Z

Determined that their story not die with them, he fictionalized their plight in "The Twenty-Seventh Man," the short story that led his 1999 award-winning debut collection, "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges." Writer Nathan Englander's avenging pen 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

When Billings organized a panel at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, she invited Hobbs to participate , and after hitting it off, they decided to collaborate on a short story. From meet-cutes to enduring bliss: How co-writers keep the spark alive 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Since having moved to Morocco, she had written a handful of short stories, a play, and many more unfinished sketches. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Dismayed by the lack of quality translations of some of her favorite Italian writers, she edited and contributed translations to a volume of collected short stories. Writing in Italian, Jhumpa Lahiri Found a New Voice 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

I first ran across her work in an eerie short story published in The New Yorker in 2005, titled “Pregnancy Diary,” whose disturbed narrator keeps a diary of her sister’s pregnancy. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

His other books include “The Virgin Suicides,” which was turned into a movie, and the short story collection “Fresh Complaint,” his latest. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Fiction Stage schedule 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The elder Yeats repeatedly sent his famous son short stories and other writing and received mostly silence in return. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z

The short story really snuck up on me, because I did not think I was writing about illness for a long time. Ben Marcus: Jonathan Franzen’s cultural commentary is really embarrassing 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z

In “The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror,” Mallory Ortberg — who launches the short story collection at Skylight on Saturday — twists fairy tales and more. Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

His better short stories play around with characters in therapy, or in therapy-like situations. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Do you think spending more time with Eileen than any of the short story characters affected your relationship, made you worry more about her? Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

In addition to novels, Mo Yan has published short stories, essays on various topics, and “despite his social criticism is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors,” the citation said. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z

Rowling’s recent short story about the Harry Potter gang was putting her on the path back to the wizarding world, guess again. J.K. Rowling to Write a Lot More Cormoran Strike Novels 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a brilliant twist from Kennedy, best known for her dark, funny novels and short stories. A new ‘Dr. Who’ and other best sci-fi and fantasy for July 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Four years later, she won a short story contest. Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

Fans of the author will soon get to see three of those short stories on the big screen, condensed into a film that reportedly features Resident Evil and Ultraviolet star Milla Jovovich. G.R.R.M. Gets Bewitched By Milla 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

She is also a prolific poet and short story writer, and the author of eight children's books. Atwood novel due out in September 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

This spring Audible brought out Stephen Fry reading the four Sherlock Holmes novels and 44 of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 short stories about the great detective. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

He instantly thought of Mr. Pierce, confident that his skills at the short story form — he has been published in anthologies and literary magazines — would translate to the stage. Kander & Pierce, a New Team in the Musical Theater 2012-05-23T21:58:57Z

And then there is the underappreciated art of seduction in short stories. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

“You Are Not I,” based on a short story by Paul Bowles, tunnels into the troubled yet alarmingly lucid mind of a schizophrenic woman. Sara Driver Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives 2012-03-16T17:39:49Z

The novelist and short story writer’s first book of nonfiction is a cool and formidable collection of pieces about music, writers, politics, travel and more. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The book is actually a novel, but the extracts presented here stand alone as short stories. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T09:00:00Z

With a rich variety of styles, these young writers demonstrate the breadth of contemporary novels and short stories. The National Book Foundation singles out the five best young writers in America 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

It was the first screen adaptation of Richard Connell’s award-winning 1924 short story – a pop sensation when it was originally published – and for the most part sticks closely to its source. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Most Dangerous Game 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Former President Barack Obama shared his summer reading list on social media on Wednesday, offering a mix of novels, short story collections and nonfiction for anyone, in his words, “looking for some suggestions.” Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

If 2012 has been a strong year for the novel, it has been especially so for short stories, culminating with a new collection from the doyenne of the form. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z

With the exception of a short story that appeared in a journal, now defunct, she was all-but unpublished during her lifetime. Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Halloween is a time when I dip into short stories. Hoping for a Spooky Halloween? We Have Some Suggestions 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Wallace’s short story, originally published in Harper’s and later in his collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, is about a woman struggling with, yes, depression. A David Foster Wallace Reading List for 'The End of the Tour' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

His most recent book was a collection of short stories published in 2008, "Lost in Uttar Pradesh." Acclaimed writer Evan S. Connell has died at 88 2013-01-10T20:49:19Z

And if people are interested in short stories rather than novels, the award-winning magazine “Fiyah” offers a wide selection. Review | African speculative fiction is finally getting its due. Let’s talk about books to seek out. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Before he wrote “Lincoln in the Bardo,” Mr. Saunders was best known for his dark and often funny futuristic, dystopian short stories. George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

The short story that resulted was just published in the Diagram, another good online magazine of short things. Talking with J. Robert Lennon about Okey-Panky 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Lovecraft short story, an apt source considering the eccentric author was, like Cage, drawn to tales of unearthly heebie-jeebies and anti-authoritarian resistance. Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Besides the recitation of a few passages from “The Walk,” a 1917 novella, and a short story from the previous year, entitled “Nervous,” the references to Walser are indirect, atmospheric, and subjective. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

“She was accused of being a traitor after World War II,” said Perry Lam, who edits Muse, a magazine here that in 2008 published a Chang short story for the first time. Chinese Writer Cements a Legacy 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z

He was also a writer of pulp fiction, and what prepared the way for the language and delirium of Dianetics was several years of writing adventure-packed short stories and science fiction junk novels. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z

Though poetry was Aiken’s main mode of expression, he was as gifted as a critic, novelist and short story writer. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

I talked about you in my Hebrew class, and, in the end, I brought the students one of your short stories, “Hope They Die.” An Exchange Between Etgar Keret and Sayed Kashua 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

He first provided art for the comic's Future Shocks short stories, before landing his dream gig in 1987 drawing Dredd strips. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

As elliptical as an Ann Beattie short story, leaving a great deal unsaid, it chronicles the end of a relationship and the limbo that follows. ‘Actress’ Centers on Brandy Burre’s Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

He wrote short stories in his 20s but disliked the art form, believing he needed more space “to create my alternative reality.” Correction: Obit-Thomas Berger story 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, she attended Peace College for women in Raleigh, N.C., and in 1984, she published a terrific short story in the Iowa Review also called “Old Lovegood Girls.” Review | Gail Godwin has been writing novels for 50 years. Her latest proves she has no intention of coasting. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

During the pandemic, my editor sent me one of his other projects: George Saunders’s book on Russian short stories, “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.” Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Gordimer's first book was "Face to Face," a collection of short stories published in 1949. Nadine Gordimer, critic of apartheid and Nobel laureate, has died 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

She was known to a vast audience for her sharply satirical sketches and plays, Symbolist poems and deft Chekhovian short stories, both humorous and mournful. ‘Subtly Worded’ Brings Teffi to Non-Russian Readers 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Chabon’s rejection of this sinister bit of advice is genuinely wise, concluding that only “a scant few” novels and short stories will survive anyhow. Review | Why do so many books to inspire dads end up making them feel inadequate? 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

He went on to publish two more novels and a collection of short stories before gradually switching over to nonfiction. David Quammen’s ‘Spillover’ Owes Much to Faulkner 2012-10-20T02:34:03Z

In September and October, Booktrack will release editions of the short stories “In the South,” by Salman Rushdie, and “Solace,” by Jay McInerney. Bells and Whistles for a Few E-Books 2011-08-23T21:59:39Z

Its appeal is that of a crafty short story with lurid topical resonance. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

He has a list of, like, 350 short stories he’s always wanted to see animated. David Fincher Tries Animation in ‘Love, Death + Robots’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Taylor’s most recent book is the short story collection “Flings.” Winner of the Prix Goncourt, 'Compass' by Mathias Enard is brilliant and frustrating 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

She began to write short stories for Esquire magazine in the 1940s, shortening her name to Bel to disguise the fact that she was a woman. Bel Kaufman dies at 103; author of bestseller ‘Up the Down Staircase’

But she preferred writing short stories, she said, adding that although they are packed with detail and character, they never began as novels waiting to be spun out. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z

Various episodes echo elements of “The Time Machine,” “The Land Ironclads” — Wells’s visionary short story about tank warfare — and “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

A highly acclaimed 2009 collection of short stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, cemented her position as one of the most promising African writers of her generation. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review 2013-04-15T08:00:02Z

The show’s marquee name is Hughes, a Missouri native who went to high school in Cleveland, where he wrote short stories and poetry. Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown: A Children’s Book Deferred 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

He had written short stories for the Atlantic! 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

It joins Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” which was first published in The New Yorker seventy years ago, in 1948. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

And every two weeks you handed in a short story. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

There's a fable-like quality to the way the author juxtaposes darkness and light in "The Night Alive," which resembles at times a short story by O. Henry, indebted to Dickens and with biblical overtones. Reaching toward the light in 'The Night Alive' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Now that James Joyce's work is out of copyright, a number of attempts have been made to dramatise his celebrated short story, The Dead. The Dead – review 2013-01-06T18:03:54Z

“The Dead” was published in 1914 as part of a collection of short stories called “Dubliners.” Irish Rep to Serve Dinner and ‘The Dead’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

His terrifying short story has been much tampered with. TV review: Whistle and I'll Come to You 2010-12-27T07:59:00Z

He has written a collection of short stories called Uncommon Type and, balanced on the edge of the sofa, is exploring the novelty of giving an interview without “talking points from the studio”. Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Now on display are the three parts of the diary, a book of short stories she wrote called "Tales from the Secret Annex," and a notebook of her favorite quotations. Anne Frank's full diary on display in Amsterdam 2010-04-28T13:13:00Z

I did tons of short stories, I was doing four to five a month. Bigfoot, sexy? Erotica author explains 2014-01-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe theirs is just a short story, maybe this is just the opening chapter. Andrew Haigh's Weekend: Sex, No Lies & Audiotape 2011-09-21T22:15:00Z

The only thing I do not like about this book is that the plot is rather slow, it is like a short story being elongated without changing the plot. Number The Stars by Lois Lowry - review 2012-11-27T15:00:00Z

I had a short story collection out about five years ago called "Dillinger in Hollywood," but that collected stories from the past 15 or 20 years. Lit Fest: Sayles stays rooted in change 2011-06-01T21:26:00Z

The entire narrative pivots around that moment, and it seems to me that there’s something going on that can only happen in a short story, tapping the economy of the form. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

With anthology series all the rage right now thanks to Fargo and American Crime Story, the original spooky short story series is being reconsidered for yet another return from the grave. On the road again: Knight Rider and the most rebooted TV shows ever 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Based on a 1946 short story by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, the opera tells of a brother and sister living in their ancestral home, which is being taken over by mysterious entities. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Kelly Link belongs to that tiny population of authors whose short story collections never leave you wondering when she’ll write a novel. “Get in Trouble”: Going back inside the weird and wonderful world of Kelly Link 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The short stories in this debut collection are refreshing: entertaining without trying too hard to be profound. New Fiction From Olen Steinhauer, J. G. Ballard and Others 2012-03-28T22:20:12Z

The person they have in mind is a PhD student at Sussex who has published some well-received short stories, along with some articles criticising the Soviet bloc. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – review 2012-08-23T07:00:02Z

Throughout the month, catch a cemetery tour, a circus show based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” or a telling of Irving’s short story in the Old Dutch Church. Fright Festivals and Other Chilling Reasons to Travel 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

It was when he was developing another screenplay that he stumbled on a collection of writing by Colin Barrett, which contained the short story Calm With Horses. Meet the new directors who lit up the film festivals 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

He masterminded the magic for this revival of Ken Hill's jocular adaptation of HG Wells's short story, and invested it with just the touch of the sinister and sensational it needs. The Invisible Man ? review 2010-11-24T21:45:00Z

Some novels and short stories listed here have injustice at their core. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

“Bad Rabbi” includes a sample of Kuper’s reportage — on a court where criminals mete out justice to their own — that is every bit as flavorsome and sardonic as a Bashevis Singer short story. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

“That’s an eighteenth-, nineteenth-century idea. It would be as if only huge Russian novels existed, and no one wrote short stories.” Video Operas You Can Watch on Your Phone 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

I’m a big reader, but I realized in the process of trying to write short stories that I read mostly nonfiction. Demetri Martin's new book of drawings is 'If It's Not Funny It's Art.' Do we have to pick? 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

A short story about a cannibal couple, husband and wife, who find themselves stranded and hungry by a fire pit after a cave-in. A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

It’s also very moving, this book, but at the same time a tiny a bit airy—it’s a novel with the bones of a short story. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z

That’s another great thing about short stories: There’s something for everyone. Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

In lieu of epic series, many of these new releases come in the form of short story collections, which allow the imagination of a multiplicity of futures in order to reflect a multiplicity of readers. In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

That means that Dear Life, her 14th short story collection, published last year, is apparently her last. Alice Munro: 7 Things to Know About the Nobel Winner 2013-10-10T16:20:36Z

A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, Lawrence Block began selling short stories more than 60 years ago when he was still a student at Antioch College. Review | Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse: How two prolific writers found their voices 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

"Drones" is a simple story that reads like a failed short story idea from Sci-Fi 101. Concept album by Muse just drones on 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

They put me in mind of two lines from a Donald Barthelme short story: “See the moon? It hates us.” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

She would go on to publish a dozen, along with a collection of short stories. Why did it take so long to adapt Octavia Butler? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

Great short stories are sometimes said to be as rich as novels. Mavis Gallant’s Magic Tricks 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

His collection of short stories, “Aerialists,” will be published in February. Keeping This Fluffy, Fragile Beast Alive 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

So I determined to concentrate on the short story. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Lawrence’s Mexican novel, “The Plumed Serpent,” can’t match his short stories or “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” but it nonetheless offers an impressive record of the ways in which an ancient past still influences the present. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Some of Lydia Davis's short stories run to a whole paragraph. Write your own short story – in under three sentences 2013-05-24T09:19:09Z

Hill said the discovery of a previously unknown short story was "a real treat". Discovery of MR James story gives children chance to write ghostly ending 2012-08-08T09:04:41Z

And he's just written a "long short story" set in the world of Neverwhere, his first venture to "London Below" in 16 years. Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults' 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z

In addition to two well-reviewed previous novels, “Natural Novel” and “Physics of Sorrow,” Gospodinov is also the author of several books of essays, poetry and short stories. This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

A short story about a talking hamster written when I was eight – to critical acclaim from my mother and my primary teacher – was as far as my creative writing career went. I quit my boring job for university at 30. The expense was daunting, but my self-worth soared 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bradbury himself — who for years had a remarkable self-imposed regimen, producing at least one short story a week — saw the strange and miraculous everywhere, and mastered the art of spinning them into enduring yarns. An Appraisal: Ray Bradbury, Who Made Science Fiction Respectable 2012-06-07T02:58:01Z

He insists that Parini read his short story “Pierre Menard,” about “a man who rewrites ‘Don Quixote,’ word for word,” believing he is writing it for the first time. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

“But he’s writing songs that are like short stories, and I really like the kind of swampy, bluesy sound.” Kevin Gordon Releases ?Gloryland,? His First Album Since 2005 2012-02-21T17:04:15Z

Greenman frequently explores narrative form: One of his eight works of fiction, 2008’s “Correspondences,” packed short stories into a stationery set. Ben Greenman's essay 'Questions/Answers' seeks questions in songs that aren't always answered 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

They stood behind Aaliyah Bilal, a finalist in the fiction category for her short story collection “Temple Folk,” as she read the statement. Justin Torres, Author of ‘Blackouts,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z

You have more time, more episodes, it becomes more like a novel than a short story or a one-act play. Emmys 2014: Christine Baranski showers praise on 'Good Wife' writers 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

For solace Will runs to the woods — to a spot near the Two Hearted River, the Upper Peninsula waterway made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1925 short story. Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

It is a very short story and fun. Group reviews: a selection 2013-05-09T17:00:00Z

His previously published writings include a short story collection, "Palo Alto." ArtsBeat: Debut Poetry Collection Coming From James Franco 2012-12-17T20:55:29Z

A combo grooved through some bebop and then made way for a Slovenian woman who read aloud in her native language from a short story. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z

So she hired Jones the next year to promote her first collection of short stories, “Ghost Summer.” Kima Jones, the Founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, Is Taking the Publishing Industry by Storm 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

He often brought in short stories or poetry that he read aloud. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Vintage/Anchor Books is now experimenting with selling short stories à la carte, through its Vintage Shorts digital imprint. Short Stories for E-Readers, 99 Cents Each 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

"There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar," Amy Bloom wrote in her 1999 short story "The Story," which remains my favorite of all her work. In Amy Bloom's 'Lucky Us,' sisters remain plucky in face of tragedy 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Sturgeon, winner of practically every science fiction prize going, was the author of more than 200 short stories and novels and a key figure of the "golden age" of science fiction. Theodore Sturgeon's archive to live long and prosper in university archive 2011-07-11T16:07:03Z

Lethem said short stories are similar to poems and essays in their precision; in a short stories, writers are trying to create something specific and unique, and each sentence matters more, he said. Festival of Books: Short stories differ from novels, but how exactly? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Proving Up” is, like “Breaking the Waves,” based on a nightmarish tale, this one a short story by Karen Russell about homesteaders in Nebraska after the Civil War struggling with the American dream. A New ‘Horror Opera’ Opens Miller Theater’s Next Season 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Leonard also serves as an executive producer on FX's Emmy-winning TV crime drama "Justified," which is based on his novels "Pronto," "Riding the Rap" and a short story "Fire in the Hole." U.S. novelist Elmore Leonard hospitalized following stroke 2013-08-06T19:44:23Z

Even as Anderson's once-great reputation plummeted, the book, published in 1919, continued to exert a pronounced effect on the American short story throughout the 20th century. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z

He had a wonderful and long character sketch of a hack comic desperate to play a more prestigious theater that would make a great short story. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The émigré narrator of Nabokov’s short story “Spring in Fialta,” for example, obliquely and scornfully refers to the Russian Revolution as “left-wing theater rumblings backstage.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z

And then, in the last six weeks of my degree course, I made an adaptation of an Ian McEwan short story, “Conversation With a Cupboard Man.” An ‘Obsession’ With Philip Glass Inspires a Director’s Memory Play 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

From the cat-and-mouse present-day discussions that alternate chapters with the original short stories, we discover that Julia is an unusually perspicacious detective as well as a sharp-eyed editor. Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

His subject was the Wild West and it was during this time, in 1953, he wrote a short story about a deputy sheriff escorting an outlaw to the train to take him to prison. Obituary: Elmore Leonard 2013-08-20T16:58:10Z

Here, in over 400 pages, are 32 short stories, 20 poems, a suite of photographs and a dozen works of nonfiction. Review | Something to celebrate: Four literary gems that have survived the vagaries of publishing 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Aiken also produced dozens of cozily eerie short stories, often playing with elements of folk tale and fairy tale. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

And — surprise — at the very end, there’s a short story by Chuck Palahniuk about a ravenous old neighbor. Fangoria, the fabled horror magazine, has risen from the dead 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

His vivid novels and short stories sizzle with his passion for language and his lust for the deep past. Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z

A winner of the Washington State Book Award for "Wonderful Tricks," a collection of short stories, Spatz teaches at Eastern Washington University. 'Inukshuk:' obsessed with Franklin's Northwest Passage quest 2012-07-26T18:02:08Z

For some reason what sticks in my mind most is the disappearance of one particular short story that I felt proud of. Things we lost in a hurricane 2012-11-12T20:46:00Z

Adam Johnson’s short story collection, “Fortune Smiles,” was truly one of the greatest things that I have ever read. Be grateful for what was good: One dozen musicians share the art they loved the most in 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

I’m not ashamed of being super low or finding myself in compromised positions or all of the various short stories contained in the album. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Superman had a recurring two-page feature in each issue, which also included short stories featuring other heroes of the DC universe. Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

There is an excellent novella, or perhaps a longish short story, to be written about Susan’s restoration of her uncle’s strange house and what lies beneath it. Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” offers anything but 2012-12-25T14:00:00Z

Now, more of his hallucinatory and terrifying visions arrive on Amazon, with 10 stand-alone adaptations of his short stories. What’s on TV Friday: David Letterman’s New Show and a Tribute to Tony Bennett 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

For eight bucks an hour, I wrote bad short stories between answering the phone and fetching lattes for strangers. #MeToo and Encounters That Resist Easy Moralizing 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

The short stories of Danticat and Gay and Ru Freeman offer rich and nuanced portraits of different sets of working-class women. A tale of two literary Americas: What a book on inequality accidentally reveals about inequality 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

The photograph was taken by Eudora Welty, who worked as a photographer before she published her first short stories. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

He sent me some of his short stories. Date Lab: Can two avid cooks make something together? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

You don’t have to be a bibliophile to appreciate a visit to Pete’s Tavern in Gramercy Park, where O. Henry said he wrote the classic Christmas short story “The Gift of the Magi.” Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ringwald said she has written for years, reviewing books and working on short stories and a novel. Molly Ringwald and the Grown-Up Life 2010-05-12T23:05:00Z

“Other publishing priorities simply got in the way, which is why I’m just getting to her novels and short stories now,” she said. Coming Soon: New Fiction From Simone de Beauvoir 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

This year, he published what might take another author a decade or more to produce: a novel, a contribution to an essay collection, a children’s book and two short stories. Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Gordimer’s first novel was still a few years away, but Face to Face — a collection of short stories — was the young author’s first book. Nadine Gordimer: 5 Essential Reads from the Award-Winning Author 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

“A turning point for me was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin about the black urban experience. It gave me permission to write about my own experiences,” he wrote. Walter Dean Myers, celebrated young adult author, dies at 76 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

“The Casserole” offers a case in point: a very short story, sketch-like almost, about the precise instant that a marriage ends. Thomas McGuane, winner of the upcoming Kirsch Award, on his path as a writer 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

In 2004, near the end of her tenure at Esquire, Miller proudly wins a National Magazine Award; the following year, the magazine published no short stories at all. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

“The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” a short story from the March 3, 2014, issue. Denis Johnson in The New Yorker 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Ruth burst onto the literary scene with a book of short stories that earned her instant fame in her early 20s. | 'Collected Stories': Linda Lavin as Donald Margulies?s Vision of Faded Fame 2010-04-28T23:01:00Z

Over the years, I took on tougher topics and the strips lengthened into short stories, though much of the irony would always be there. Stan Mack’s Occupy-the-Fourth-of-July funnies 2012-07-10T00:00:00Z

When I was in high school, my English class read a famous short story called “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” written in 1890 by Ambrose Bierce. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

We also discuss this year's Orange Prize shortlist, and Helen Simpson reads a brilliant new short story from her latest collection. Podcast: Damon Galgut, Helen Simpson, the London Book Fair and the Orange prize 2010-04-30T11:36:00Z

So instead of the self-defeating business of hoping against hope that Allen's latest will be a return to form, how about thinking of each new film as a short story? The critic's choice: Woody Allen's new film 2011-01-03T08:00:14Z

This physical pursuit found its way into prose with a series of "somewhat more mainstream" short stories and his 1989 novel Climbers, which follows a man who falls in with a group of rock climbers. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z

Byatt short story "A Stone Woman," and by stone and ice itself; by ideas of weight and gravity translated into something physical. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z

Honored worldwide as a playwright, Williams also wrote dozens of short stories. Rarely seen Tennessee Williams story set in post-WWII Italy 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

It beat entries from top British authors including Mark Haddon, Ali Smith and Sarah Hall to be named winner of the £30,000 EFG Private Bank short story prize this evening. Junot Díaz wins world's richest short story prize 2013-03-22T21:30:12Z

Photograph: Dixe Wills A good short story captures a moment in time, but a great one captures the temper of the times. Tea at the Midland by David Constantine – review 2012-12-14T22:55:03Z

Mac Wellman adapted this monologue from one of his own short stories. Theater Review: ‘Muazzez,’ a Monologue Based on a Mac Wellman Story 2014-01-13T22:17:09Z

The first section of the test involved reading a short story and answering six multiple-choice questions about it. Motherlode Blog: Two literary parents mourn the stupidity of a standardized reading test. 2012-01-20T20:17:21Z

In 2008, Silver Jews released the delightful, occasionally buoyant “Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea,” an album full of dark, rollicking fables that feel like short stories set to music. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

She took a job with Radio Tehran, rose quickly — in part because of her fluency in English — and began writing short stories. Simin Daneshvar, Iranian Author and Translator, Dies at 90 2012-03-17T04:26:17Z

Despite the plethora of sharply observed social detail, her short stories always recognize other potential realities. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates

But he quickly subverts the idea of the "poor short story" and its modest ambitions. Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z

And yet, August still promises plenty of worthwhile titles, from a delicious Western saga to sharp short stories to a genre-defying memoir. The 10 books to read in August 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

"Their eyes are programmed to change color and brightness, corresponding to the letters in a very short story about fishing with my father," says Zervas. Grey Gallery show is a journey to new territory with familiar artists 2010-03-18T21:03:00Z

It contained a Flaubert short story about a man who slaughtered thousands of wild animals but found redemption after he showed remorse for killing his parents, and the opening scene of a play. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z

We have this tendency to categorize it as this little O. Henry-esque short story with the twist ending. Sloane Crosley on book trailers, book clubs and her new novel, ‘The Clasp’ 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The winner – picked by five judges including the short story writer Kelly Link – will be announced on 31 October in Columbus, Ohio at the World Fantasy convention. Authors prepare for battle in World Fantasy awards 2010-08-26T13:31:00Z

A short story published in Every Boy's Magazine in 1896 also refers to this tradition. Halloween foods from history reveal the holiday’s surprising romantic side — and you can try them yo 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

A precocious student at Harvard University at the age of sixteen, he had his first short story published two years later. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson won the National Book Award for fiction for “Fortune Smiles,” a collection of short stories. The Times's Reviews of National Book Award Winners 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

In Joshua Cohen’s powerfully strange short story “Emission,” which originally appeared in The Paris Review, a drug dealer has chest hair that sprouts “in spirals like @ signs.” Books of The Times: ‘Four New Messages,’ Stories by Joshua Cohen 2012-07-31T12:00:00Z

I’ve been interested in short stories and maybe writing a book. Gabrielle Union on Sexual Assault, Raising Black Sons and Her Move to Chicago 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Its first prize was awarded to George Saunders for his short story collection "Tenth of December." Folio Prize shortlist includes Ben Lerner, Colm Toibin, Ali Smith 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Royle praises Ra Page at Comma Press for his work promoting short stories. Chapbooks: ancient form of publishing enjoying renaissance 500 years on 2011-03-04T11:44:00Z

He was a lovely short story writer; a warm, funny man; an awful, careless father. Books of The Times: With No Father Around, a Youth and His Fists Fend for Themselves 2011-02-22T18:14:55Z

In a video call, Temple, 31, said she viewed her starring role as Lucy Savage as an amalgam of several of the characters in Nin’s short stories, and of Nin herself. In ‘Little Birds,’ Anaïs Nin Erotica Gets a Revolutionary New Context 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

After military service, he moved to Mexico and worked as a portrait painter, followed by a move to San Francisco, where he started writing short stories and making short films. Melvin Van Peebles, godfather of Black cinema, dies at 89 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

As someone who was interested in storytelling at the time, I was writing short stories, I was writing couplets. Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx on how Seattle shaped his music 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The writer's 1942 short story It Had to be Murder formed the basis for Rear Window, which was shot by Hitchcock in 1954. Disturbia did not steal Rear Window plot, judge rules 2010-09-22T14:38:00Z

While reading “Ramp Hollow,” I recalled a line from the West Virginia writer Jayne Anne Phillips’s “Black Tickets,” her pungent book of short stories. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

A photograph taken for the short story “The Boarder,” written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Take Kafka: in his novels and short stories he reveals himself to be obsessed with what, by now, we should see as a three-way stand-off, or ménage à trois, between man, technology and writing. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

And since — as befits a play about a book club — literary references abound here, I found myself thinking of a similarly titled work, Jean Stafford’s short story “Children Are Bored on Sunday.” Review: Being Young and Bored in a Book Club on ‘Sunday’ 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

Initially, he thought that he’d stumbled upon a lost short story, like the Fitzgerald story he found and published in the Strand a few weeks ago called “Temperature.” Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov died in 1904, when film was still in its infancy. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

He also won an Edgar that year for his short story “Good-bye, Pops,” which appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Joe Gores, Crime Writer in Dashiell Hammett Mode, Dies at 79 2011-01-14T02:35:11Z

Another reason is that Nabokov perhaps felt little real affinity for the short story, which he called "a small Alpine form" of the novel. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z

I've read that he once said the short story was the perfect vehicle for American fiction. Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it' 2011-08-25T09:32:10Z

Moore's first success as a writer came 19, winning a short story prize from the magazine Seventeen. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

A different strain of stoicism prevails in "Bear Down, Bear North," a collection of interlinked short stories set in Alaska. Alaska books: Bearing down on hope, survival 2011-12-01T00:43:04Z

He followed it with a collection of short stories and several novellas. Weinsteins to make JD Salinger film 2013-09-19T10:09:13Z

In this sumptuous volume of 65 short stories… the reader is treated to a glorious recapitulation of the sorcerer’s entire career. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

This elegantly structured ballad unfolds almost like a short story, and showcases Parsons’s knack for narrative-driven lyricism. Enough About Gram Parsons’s Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

A Jones fellowship, which supported two seminars in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program, gave her just enough time to shape some of these fragments into four short stories. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

The author of three novels and three collections of short stories, he draws on our sympathies even while pricking our anxieties. Dan Chaon’s ‘Ill Will’ is the scariest novel of the year 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," was nominated for "This Is How You Lose Her," a collection of connected short stories. ArtsBeat: Díaz and Caro Among Finalists for National Book Award 2012-10-10T15:23:00Z

The trip began years before we met, when Sara wrote a short story about the perfect marriage. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

After nearly 100 television and film adaptations of his novels and short stories, Mr. King is used to the Hollywood version of his characters ending up younger and more glamorous than their often-haggard literary counterparts. Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome,’ Adapted for a TV Series 2013-06-22T16:14:50Z

Thurber was a grandmaster of the short story — perhaps best known for “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” — and his often absurd and acerbic cartoons. Please shut up, Mr. President, and read some books 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

His short stories, in part because they are not as widely known, giving screenwriters more license to extrapolate, have been the least problematic. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

“I ended up writing a short story about a fish. It was very interesting.” Home Alone With the Ghost of Emily Dickinson 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Gay: Yeah, I just … like today I have to write an essay and a short story that are both overdue, and I’m going to work on both of them. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

Based on a paranoid short story by Sylvia Plath, the 40-minute dance loosely follows the nervy receptionist of a mental health clinic, who works under the watchful eye of the God of Anxiety. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

We begin this week’s list with a collection of short stories that is timely for the worst reasons. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

His experience of Jewish suffering were reflected in his short stories, and novels where his characters are fighting to retain human dignity in Holocaust horrors. Czech Jewish author Arnost Lustig dies at 84 2011-02-26T13:40:07Z

She went on to publish many other novels and short story collections, among them Circle of Friends and Tara Road both of which were adapted as feature films. Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish writer, dies aged 72 2012-07-30T23:18:52Z

“I’m going to write a novel so that people will let me write short stories in peace.” For a Scientist Turned Novelist, an Experiment Pays Off 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

The book concerns only the Bond films, ignoring Fleming’s novels and short stories, as well as those penned by other writers after Fleming’s death in 1964. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” and “Othello” are its chief ingredients, with Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” thrown in. ‘The Serpent of Venice’: a Shakespeare-Poe mash-up 2014-04-24T20:52:07Z

Maybe you’re not up for reading an entire novel on your cellphone, but short stories are another matter. Beyond Angry Birds: great cellphone reads 2013-03-01T21:31:28Z

They resemble highly compressed short stories — as implied by the show’s Cheeveresque title, “Neighbors and Strangers.” Art In Review: DAVID DEUTSCH: ‘Neighbors and Strangers’ 2013-04-25T20:23:17Z

Morrison also completed plays, poems, essays, and short stories, one of which is coming out as a book on Feb. 1. Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

“The idea for ‘Warm Bodies’ started with a short story in which a zombie talks about life after the apocalypse,” says Marion. Isaac Marion’s ‘Warm Bodies,’ in theaters this Friday, is a portrait of zombie/human love 2013-01-26T04:43:16Z

I can write a Western, I can write an erotic novel, I could read all the science fiction, short stories, literary stories, and they're all new because nobody put black people in those stories. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The short story is that it’s a tall tale spread by Postum, a caffeine-free morning beverage invented in the late 1800s. Take it with a pinch of salt – the food marketing myths we’ve swallowed whole 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

"The Water Knife" grew out of a short story, "The Tamarisk Hunters," that first appeared in the environmental journal High Country News. Amid a real drought, thriller 'Water Knife' cuts to the quick 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Each chapter, similar to interlinked short stories, is conveyed from the perspective of Hattie or one of her relations. ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’: the scars of a mother’s battles 2013-01-31T23:00:50Z

First to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, then to Bennett Park, where we slid down the twisting slide and mapped out a terrible short story about two writers in a playground. New York Playgrounds I Have Known 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The adult narratives follow no set arc, instead functioning like subtle, sparkling short stories, layering the group’s teenage years with a clarity only time can provide. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

We gaze over the shoulder of Serena, the book's heroine, as she reads short stories written by up-and-coming young writer and journalist Tom Haley; they're books within a book, a page-turning hall of mirrors. 'Sweet Tooth': Ian McEwan's novel of spying, writing and love 2012-11-14T20:37:12Z

His more nurturing mother supported his writing and was a writer herself, later publishing short stories in The New Yorker. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

Why do we choose to work in forms like the short story, the literary novel, the essay, the sonnet – forms which have very little commercial value? Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

Hess kept a website of his short stories and blog postings. Sheffield's owner Ric Hess dies at 48 2011-01-18T19:16:37Z

“At 6,” it begins, “Joanne wrote a short story about a rabbit and titled it ‘Rabbit.’” Before Sue Grafton Was a Star 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Lively’s 21st work of fiction, “The Purple Swamp Hen,” a collection of short stories, is coming out here on May 9, and she has just finished a nonfiction book about gardening. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

You can see how he perfected that style in an illuminating new edition of his short stories. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

“The masters of the short story come to no good end,” wrote Ernest Hemingway, in a bitterly prescient moment. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Neto explained that the work was inspired by a Jorge Luis Borges short story, “The Circular Ruins,” and that the red structure was meant to be a heart, with the drum providing the heartbeat. Blue Skies and Blue-Chip Sales at Art Basel Miami 2010-12-04T00:13:00Z

The devastation in Mukasonga’s stories is only amplified by the short story form. New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

The AI submissions consisted of plagiarized, stitched-together bits of previously published short stories, some of which had been published in Clarkesworld itself. Oh, the humanity! Stop using AI to pitch stories 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

This collection, edited by Jackson’s son, brings together one of Jackson’s other great literary loves apart from short stories: the letter. 13 New Books Coming in July 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

This came from a short story collection, "Men Without Women." "Drive My Car" director says conversing in vehicles "makes it easier to reveal parts of yourself" 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Man and Boy author will then publish a collection of short stories called Departures: Seven Stories from Heathrow, 5000 copies of which will be given away free to passengers. VIDEO: Tony Parsons new Heathrow writer 2011-08-04T15:05:20Z

Breckenridge and the Continuum by Robert SilverbergAnother short story with the word "continuum" in the title, that was the subject of one of our conferences. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z

This may well be the most original and magical poetry anthology ever compiled, opening with an allegorical short story, then interlacing de la Mare’s highly personal commentary throughout. Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

The Rea Award is given for making a "significant contribution to the discipline of the short story form." 'Days' author Robison wins short story prize in NY 2010-05-11T11:01:00Z

By 2009 two other researchers had pushed it back to 1962, when it appeared in a short story about a brush salesman and an article in a car magazine. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z

It came in an episode of the 1962 British television series "Out of this World," which loosely adapted the author's 1953 short story "Imposter." 8 facts about Philip K. Dick 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

Let me lead with my harshest criticism, if it is in fact criticism and not mere observation: McGuane is not a natural short story writer. Stories Filled With Strivers, Schemers and Adventurers 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

The chapters about Amy's teenage mother struggling to support her daughter could be a short story on their own. 'The Passage:' Post-apocalyptic vampire thriller imagines a frighteningly believable future 2010-06-24T19:28:00Z

The actor's poetry follows a short story collection, Palo Alto, released by Franco last year. James Franco to publish book of poetry 2012-12-18T12:03:19Z

Meg: Tell me about the day you sold your first short story — the title story of this book. When Covid struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it. 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Armstrong wrote constantly — mostly letters and short stories about his life, but also in the form of limericks and pages-long jokes. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

A commissioned short story inspired by the museum’s displays will be published this spring. In Transit: In London, a Look Back at Children's Life During Wartime 2011-02-08T11:00:49Z

Burns’s short story collection, “The Missing Woman,” is being published in April. Roz Chast talks about her new children’s book, ‘Around the Clock” 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

In her short story collection, “How to Leave Hialeah,” Jennine Capó Crucet examines the gains and losses associated with escaping both the Miami area and the expectations of a family and culture steeped in patriarchy. Read Your Way Through Miami 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

“I love that she has the ability to knock the wind out of you with a 12-page short story, and you’re just left reeling,” she said. Alvvays, a Dreamy Indie-Rock Band, Cranks Up the Volume 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Morrison’s unflustered logic is what I love about “Recitatif,” her short story originally published in 1983 and now being released for the first time as a stand-alone book. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

On another occasion, his called his novels “a lot of linked-up short stories.” William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Published along with five other short stories, it won the National Book Award in 1960. Author Philip Roth says he is done with writing 2012-11-09T23:15:30Z

The stories in the collection, says Opinions, range from good to gorgeous, giving a glimpse into the beginnings of the brilliant short story writer Ridgway has become. Reader reviews roundup 2012-07-06T15:17:40Z

She helped keep the household afloat, producing articles, thrillers, short stories and tales for children. Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

He continues: “My new book, ‘Killing and Dying,’ is a collection of short stories. Cover Story: Adrian Tomine’s “Recognition” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

In “Christmas,” a short story from 1975, Vladimir Nabokov writes about a father’s grief over his son’s death and a discovery he makes while packing up his belongings. Holiday Classics from the Archive 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

“Everyone knows the sound of heels clicking in hospital corridors. Everyone knows the tread of the heart,” she wrote in the short story “The Life You Gave Me.” ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Take "The Jaunt," a short story from "Skeleton Crew," for instance. Reading Stephen King's 'It': Still unsettling, all these years later 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“Ancestor Approved” is a Native American-themed short story anthology with one such gathering, a powwow, at its center. Kindred Spirits: 2 Collections of Native Mythology for Children and Their Adults 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Audiobooks have been around since the 1930s, but initially contained only short stories or poems. Long-lost audiobook - one of the earliest ever published - discovered in Canada 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

He’s funding a short story collection in which Palestinian writers “describe a free Palestine through the lens of love.” For Saint Levant, Sexy Music Is Personal, and Political 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

The winner of this year's award will be revealed in September, at the culmination of the Frank O'Connor short story festival in Cork. US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist 2010-07-09T16:30:00Z

Leonard also served as an executive producer on FX's Emmy-winning TV crime drama "Justified," which is based on his novels "Pronto," "Riding the Rap" and a short story "Fire in the Hole." U.S. crime writer Elmore Leonard dead at 87 2013-08-20T14:45:48Z

And yet, reading this long book of short stories in a hurry – as I have – becomes awkward. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T09:00:00Z

A novella and short story were also spun off. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z

A good short story must contain an epiphany. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Kander has been friends with Pierce, 35, for a decade, and he watched the younger man grow as a short story writer and playwright. Composer John Kander Rides New Creative Wave at 86 2013-10-16T14:09:00Z

Bradbury, author of the classic works Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles and hundreds of short stories, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 91. Ray Bradbury's influence on our culture was transformative, says Barack Obama 2012-06-07T10:32:00Z

Apt Pupil references Springheel Jack, a serial killer from the short story Strawberry Spring. Rereading Stephen King: Different Seasons 2013-01-15T11:10:21Z

In Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Mask,” a rakish man about town who loves the night life collapses at a dance. How I Came Out as Gray 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

This is the space many of Deborah Eisenberg's short stories inhabit, and attempts to navigate it are what provide their drama. A brief survey of the short story part 33: Deborah Eisenberg 2011-04-13T10:09:30Z

He wrote more than a dozen novels, including “The Zafarani Files,” “Pyramid Texts,” “The Book of Epiphanies” and “The Book of Revelations,” as well as short story collections. Gamal al-Ghitani, Egyptian Novelist, Dies at 70 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

There have also been a few volumes of short stories, all of which adds up to more than 60 titles, with hardly a failure among the lot. Book World: ‘The Girl Next Door’ by Ruth Rendell

Melissa did well in school — producing A’s and short stories. A Mother Grieves by Making a Film About Bulimia 2010-04-21T18:20:00Z

With my M.F.A. students, I like to assign Joy Williams, any of her short stories. Dana Spiotta Loves Coming Across Jokes in Really Old Books 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

“Lucky Hank” is disarmingly funny, though it feels like a draft that doesn’t yet know if it needs to be a short story or a novel. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Based on short stories by the rising science fiction star Ken Liu, “Pantheon” is a story about the consequences of uploading human consciousness to the cloud that has a family resemblance to “The Matrix.” A Thanksgiving Binge Menu: 7 Fall Shows You Might Have Slept On 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Morris Gleitzman is the star judge of our summer short story competition. Enter our Morris Gleitzman short story writing competition 2012-05-30T13:22:58Z

You can find it in his English-language short story collection of the same name. Review | Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

I wrote poems and short stories in the cafe, and envisioned where my own novel, if I ever wrote one, would one day be shelved. We fell in love at Borders 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The short story was the natural embodiment of a kind of disconnectedness or anomie. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

Its libretto, by American novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer, derives from Kafka's terrifying short story of the same name. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

It was written by the Grenadian poet and short story writer Merle Collins. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

I have written short stories that bring the horrific but distant world of war right into a love story taking place fairly peacefully somewhere else. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Anne Michaels won the youth panel award and Anna Lewis won the short story competition for unpublished writers. Kingsolver wins Orange prize 2010-06-09T19:37:00Z

When sickly Bostonian Edward J. O'Brien put together the first "Best American Short Stories" anthology in 1915, short stories were considered junky pop culture. '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The standard royalty rate for authors will be 35 percent of the net revenue for works of at least 10,000 words, and 20 percent for short stories that run between 5,000-10,000 words. ArtsBeat: Amazon Offers Fan Fiction Writers a New Platform 2013-05-27T15:24:07Z

Little is for certain in these unnerving short story collections by three of the most gifted writers in contemporary literature. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates

Author of six novels and several books of short stories, she made her music debut in 2010 with the praised album “El Juidero.” A look at this year’s best new artist Latin Grammys nominees 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The good news about “The Emerald Light in the Air” is that it contains two masterpieces of the short story form, stories I hope are anthologized until anthologizing ends in fire or ice. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Instead of topic sentences and footnotes, he wrote a short story about a fictional character on a quest that covered the points of the assignment. Billy Porter Tells His Own Story in ‘While I Yet Live’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Christie went on to write 80 crime novels and short story collections and 19 plays, with a further six novels published under the name Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie Poirot book sells for more than £40,000 at auction 2012-06-27T12:55:48Z

Op-Ed: Back to School Paul Murray writes a short story on the end of summer, and the beginning of an education. | 'We Are Family': Mom-Stepmom Two Step 2010-09-05T21:43:00Z

In the short story “Big Game,” a character is trampled to death by an elephant. ArtsBeat: Ransom Center Acquires T.C. Boyle Papers 2012-03-07T21:14:47Z

True to his name, which means "fountains" in Spanish, he was a prolific writer, producing plays and short stories and co-founding a literary magazine. Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies 2012-05-16T04:01:04Z

I read the short stories and poems, and, while I admired Parker’s smart, biting style, my dirty little secret was that I did not connect emotionally with her writing. Robert Benchley’s Legacy in a Era of Fraught Comedy 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The first draft of the short story “Soldier’s Home” is written on sheets he appears to have swiped from a telegraph office. Review: Hemingway, Man of Few Words and Many Mementos, at the Morgan 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a short story by the US humourist James Thurber, first published in the New Yorker magazine in 1939. Sacha Baron Cohen tipped for Walter Mitty remake 2010-04-19T14:14:00Z

In Morrison’s only published short story, two women, whose races are left ambiguous, repeatedly cross paths, clashing each time they meet. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Baricco’s short story — an English translation was published in The New Yorker — is set in the near past in a fictitious Spanish-speaking country that has been ravaged by a bloody civil war. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

As an escape from the tedium he began writing short stories that he posted on his blog and later tried to animate using his limited skills in Photoshop and After Effects software. Hong Kong’s Youth Culture, Captured in Disturbing Animations 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

She wrote a radio play, a children’s book, dozens of short stories, and numerous incidental pieces of journalism and memoir. Review | What Sylvia Plath’s letters reveal about the poet we thought we knew 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Seth writes and draws in a quiet midcentury style, suffused by a gentle melancholy that brings to mind the short stories of Alice Munro, who also lives in Ontario and is his favorite writer. From New York (Cool) to Palookaville (Melancholy) 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Some of the short stories are about losers fighting hopeless odds as they try to make good. George Pelecanos Explores New Terrain in ‘The Martini Shot’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

He tells me that's he's working on turning it into a little book with another short story. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z

He was living a bohemian life in Southern California when the producer and screenwriter Rod Serling chose to develop one of his short stories for his new series, “The Twilight Zone.” George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

To everything there is a season, and the season for short stories is summer — except for tales of ghosts and demons, which should be reserved for late fall. A summer book list like no other 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

In his 1941 short story "Nightfall", Isaac Asimov takes us to Lagash, a planet deep in a globular cluster surrounded by not one, not two, not three – but six nearby stars. Darkness in literature: 'Nightfall' by Isaac Asimov 2012-12-19T10:52:27Z

In “Julieta,” loosely based on short stories by Alice Munro, Ms. Ugarte plays the younger version of the title character, whose life takes a dramatic turn after a tryst on a train. Pedro Almodóvar and His ‘Cinema of Women’ 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Instead, it uses a basic mix of text and movement to tell a simple and perfectly formed short story. Lost Dog 2010-05-10T21:35:00Z

Meet Sherman Alexie and G. Willow Wilson, two Seattle authors who just won Pacific Northwest Book Awards for their books — Alexie for his short story collection “Blasphemy,” Wilson for her novel “Alif the Unseen.” Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Feb. 10 2013-02-06T23:03:48Z

Which short story writers do you most admire? Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mitchell S. Jackson, 40 and the author of a novel and a book of essays and short stories, said that until recently he supported himself largely through teaching. Helping Writers With a Windfall Avoid a Downfall 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

But Raylan Givens, who featured in Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding The Rap, as well his short story Fire In The Hole, has become the actor's signature role. Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and the golden age of TV 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z

Ma, whose 2018 debut novel “Severance” proved eerily prescient in hinging on a global pandemic, won the fiction award for her surreal short story collection. Ukrainian Author Andrey Kurkov Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The novel, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” is a love-triangle comedy of manners told in Crosley’s signature irreverent style. Sloane Crosley on book trailers, book clubs and her new novel, ‘The Clasp’ 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

As a child, she read the Nancy Drew and Wizard of Oz books and began writing short stories. The Feminist Legacy of “The Baby-Sitters Club” 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

“As sometimes happens with a short story or a novel, you think of the name first.” ArtsBeat: Anti-Corporate Agitation at Barnes & Noble 2010-12-08T03:04:00Z

There are North Korean fans of everything from Mark Twain’s short stories to bootleg Schwarzenegger movies. Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z

The play’s meta-story began in 2001, when Ms. Heti, then an emerging writer with a book of short stories under her belt, was commissioned to write a piece for a small feminist theater company. ‘All Our Happy Days Are Stupid’ Heads for a New York Run 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

In a writing life that included poetry, children's books, short stories and political commentary, Achebe's criticism contributed provocations that not only shaped the development of writing from Africa but also the way we read it. The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice 2013-03-24T00:06:34Z

More of a novella, or a long short story, Point Omega is a fragment of classic DeLillo, apparently rooted in time and place: 2006, late summer, early fall. The American dream 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

It consists of five interlinked short stories, each of which brings Alice face to face with mortality. Fatal attraction 2011-08-26T11:04:47Z

In 1952, he was notified about an unauthorized adaptation of his short story “Mars Is Heaven!” in EC Comics. 5 Spooky Halloween Comics for Horror Fans 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

"I thought it was going to be a short story, but it just kept going - for 700 pages," she told presenter Mark Lawson. AM Homes wins women's fiction prize 2013-06-06T07:24:21Z

He first wrote short stories, then moved on to novels, publishing his first in 1939. Raymond Chandler to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Alexie won the $15,000 award for War Dances, a collection of short stories about ordinary people on the brink of change, interspersed with poems. Sherman Alexi 2010-03-24T11:38:00Z

His father was an Anglican clergyman, and his mother wrote romantic short stories for women’s magazines before her marriage, enabling her to buy a black Austin 7 car with the money, Mr. Raban told Granta. Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

In the ’90s, when she published her first short story in a mystery anthology, she was told that writing genre fiction would kill her chances of being taken seriously as a writer. This professor turned to erotic fiction to promote social change 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

“I often find myself thinking something completely ridiculous and I imagine, ‘That’s the kind of idiot I’d like to have in one of my short stories.’ ” Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

James Salter, whose intimately detailed novels and short stories kept a small but devoted audience in his thrall for more than half a century, died on Friday in Sag Harbor, N.Y. James Salter, a ‘Writer’s Writer’ Short on Sales but Long on Acclaim, Dies at 90 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the things I love about the short story as a form. This Week in Fiction: Kevin Canty 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The £3,500 prize will be for a single, previously unpublished short story of up to 4,000 words. Costa's new short story award to be judged anonymously 2012-07-17T08:26:04Z

There’s no such thing as a short story. Jazz icon Wayne Shorter can play anything. He’s still trying to say everything. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

At the end of the day, sweaty and tired, I read, almost word by word, his short stories with the help of a tiny dictionary. Letters to the Travel Editor 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

His latest film, Julieta, is a melodrama based on short stories by Alice Munro about a woman looking back on her life and her fractured relationship with her daughter. Pedro Almodóvar on Panama Papers: I'm one of the least important names cited 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

“Ocean” began life as a short story for my wife. Neil Gaiman treasures ‘strange moments of the inexplicable’ 2013-05-30T20:34:05Z

As she wrote the short story and the pilot based on it, she sought to “capture that campy, angsty fun, but for a new generation.” In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

She was a bartender who published the occasional short story. Heartbreak specialists: how Mississippi bluesmen got me through my divorce 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Based on the Jorge Luis Borges short story The House of Asterion, which recounts the Minotaur's version of events, the production will examine ideas of heroism and political propaganda. Shunt to create labyrinth in London warehouse 2012-08-14T12:19:08Z

The focus will be on novels, short stories and graphic novels, with the winning titles chosen by a panel chaired by writer Giles Foden. Fiction Uncovered plans to highlight overlooked novels 2010-10-22T12:01:00Z

Like many people, I tend to listen to digital versions of short stories through headphones during interstitial time – on the train commute, during a lunchtime walk or while cooking. How do you listen to short stories? 2010-05-12T10:39:00Z

His short story “The Egg” — a viral hit online — became the basis of Logic’s rap-concept album “Everybody,” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard last spring. Andy Weir's 'The Martian' was a huge hit. And now he's hoping he's not a one-hit wonder. 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Haaretz reported that a handwritten short story by Kafka, never before seen, is among the papers. Unseen Kafka Writings Inch Closer To The Light 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

It’s a dark comedy based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of Jean Shepherd, as originally collected in the book “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.” Dreaming of a white “Christmas Story”: A Yuletide classic’s “color-blind” racism 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

“Listen to this,” I said to the person I live with, waving Simon Rich’s latest book of short stories, “New Teeth,” in the air. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Not the writer, Joseph Gangemi, whose strung-out adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe short story is padded to the point of suffocation. ‘Stonehearst Asylum’ Stars Ben Kingsley and Kate Beckinsale 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Singer wrote much else besides short stories, but these are what he deservedly got the Nobel for. Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:02Z

I can’t neatly explain why I connect McEwan’s short story, which was originally published in “First Love, Last Rites” in 1975, with Adams’s “Summer Nights Walking,” which came out 10 years after that. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

He wrote at least 18 books, including collections of poetry and short stories. Evan Connell, 88, Novelist in Multiple Genres 2013-01-11T04:50:32Z

Rueful and funny and observant short stories about late-flowering lust. Book Gift Ideas: Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

His short stories — this new collection, “That Old Country Music,” is his third — are more traditionally contained. Kevin Barry’s Stories of Yearning Swing Between Pathos and Humor 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

The decision is made in a short story in "Action Comics" No. 900. Superman: I'm renouncing my US citizenship 2011-04-28T23:45:09Z

And when I’m writing a short story or a novel, I’m writing a work of fiction. Leslie Jamison and Roxane Gay: “Men are crowned as the gold standard of the genre. It’s gonna change” 2014-04-24T23:00:00Z

It will also come in an edition with an 88-page hardback storybook, featuring 13 illustrated short stories whose titles correspond to the song titles. New this week: ‘Peacemaker,’ Elvis Costello and Macbeth film 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

His short story collection was turned down by 38 literary agents. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

In each listing, Significant Objects substituted the usual descriptions for a short story featuring the item, to see whether "narrative transforms insignificant objects into significant ones". For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson 2010-07-08T09:30:00Z

In 1944, the story — without the novel’s first section — was published in the anthology “Cross Section,” and a similarly truncated version was later included in a collection of Wright’s short stories, “Eight Men.” Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

The series is based on Rich's collection of short stories "The Last Girlfriend on Earth." FXX orders modern dating comedy 'Man Seeking Woman' 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

When he returned to work, it was in an unlikely way, adapting Chekhov’s short story A Misfortune for television. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The book contains two essays that are as sublime as the very best short stories. In ‘Natural Opium,’ a Tourist Attuned to Every Indignity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Lecturing about Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat,” Nabokov would remark that the “solemn reader” takes for granted that Gogol’s prime intention was to “denounce the horrors of Russian bureaucracy.” Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z

The final concept was inspired by a Kafka short story called “Description of a Struggle” — though it turns out that he inserted quasi-hidden references to “Metamorphosis” as well. On the Trail of Kafka in Prague 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

World-premiere musical adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham short story about a woman of ill repute who upends the lives of a missionary and others in 1920s Samoa. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

As one reader said, the author might describe the short story as a melancholic form, but readers relished them for their humour. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

The other stories that Willmore unearthed include two which vanished after appearing in short story collections in the US, "East Wind" and "The Limpit". Lost Daphne du Maurier stories discovered 2011-02-21T16:10:04Z

So did the interactive short story Gone Home, an unusual game about nothing more exotic than a teenage girl who decides to run away. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Surprises and Challenges for Video Games in 2013 2013-12-24T13:01:19Z

My friend Liza read one of my essays and said, “I think you should write this as a short story.” The Author of ‘The Nest’ on How She Got Up the Courage to Write 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

There are many elements to consider when reading a short story, but perhaps the most important one is what kind of ending the author chooses. Review | Dantiel W. Moniz’s ‘Milk Blood Heat’ thrums with life while considering death 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Nobel laureate’s sole short story, published in 1983 and only now being released in book form, depicts an interracial friendship between two girls — one white, one Black — who meet in a shelter. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Every now and then, at the coffee shop near my house, a communal notebook is placed out on the countertop — inviting customers to contribute a note, a short story or a doodle. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Dorthe Nors is the author of the nonfiction book “A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast,” the short story collections “Wild Swims” and “Karate Chop,” and four novels. Home at Last in the Wind, Rain and Isolation of the North Sea Coast 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

He opened the box and inside was a manuscript he’d just finished typing for a new book of short stories to be called “We’ll Always Have Paris.” Brian Selznick: By the Book 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Hemingway wrote some of his best-known work while living in the house, including the novel “To Have and Have Not” and the short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Hemingway's Key West house and cats spared by Hurricane Irma 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Using the four paintings shown here, write a short story linking at least three of them. Contest: Tell a story using these old paintings

Her earlier short story cycle, "Swallow the Air" won the David Unaipon Award. Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

She read Freud, she says, before she was 11 – and mistaking The Interpretation of Dreams for a collection of short stories, decided "they were rubbish". Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review 2013-04-19T09:00:01Z

Based on Mendele Mocher Seforim's classic short stories and detailing the touching romance between a blind girl and a lame beggar, this is one of the most emotionally satisfying of all Yiddish films. Director Edgar G. Ulmer gets his due at LACMA 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

His first theater job was a Philip Glass opera adaptation of Kafka’s short story In the Penal Colony in which he didn’t sing or speak, just moved. Sterling K Brown: 'I allow myself to think about winning an Emmy' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Sam Lipsyte actually gave me the opportunity to adapt his short story collection "Venus Drive." ArtsBeat: L.A. Story: Karolina Waclawiak Talks About Her First Novel 2012-07-25T19:39:15Z

He's already completed a fourth low-budget film, Two Jacks, based on the short story The Two Hussars. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z

For Lorrie Moore the short story, compared to the novel, is "a more magical form". Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z

He then goes off to the pub, leaving her alone: the classic miserabilist Scottish short story would end there. Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z

Moore is perhaps better known as a novelist and short story writer than a critic, but readers of her fiction will recognize her engaging and approachable voice. New in Paperback: ‘See What Can Be Done,’ ‘The Gunners’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

From the master short story writer, a long-awaited first novel, an imaginative tale featuring our 16th president. What books to read in 2017: 26 titles to start the year 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

“There’s a sense of a reprieve,” said Odie Lindsey, 45, a straight fiction writer and gulf war veteran, whose new book of short stories, “We Come to Our Senses,” features several gay characters. The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

The town is where Alistair MacLeod, Nova Scotia’s greatest writer, grew up, and from his spare, flinty short stories, you get a sense of how hardscrabble and demanding life there used to be. In Cape Breton, a Rugged Golf Getaway 2013-06-07T18:43:43Z

It's the latest in a long line of Isbell songs that unfold like short stories by your favorite Southern author. Isbell celebrates great year at Americana Awards 2012-09-11T18:02:08Z

Instead of photo galleries of Justin Bieber licking a baby panda, Narrative offers poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, short stories and even long stories. Book briefs

This is on a certain level a modest book, one that isn’t going to drive other young short story writers into the shadows. ‘Lot’ Offers a Fictional Look at a Vibrant, Polyglot American City 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

The works being considered include three novels, two books of poetry and two short story collections. Dylan Thomas Prize contenders wait 2013-11-07T13:25:47Z

A reader gets in and out of a short story, like a cold bath. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

If you do too, might we recommend some short stories from Argentina? 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

He said the piece he read was from “Falling Forward,” a short story that is, for now, not part of a longer project. ArtsBeat: Frank Bascombe Back in Short Form For Now 2013-05-06T19:38:42Z

This short story, he said, about “a prep school kid on his Christmas vacation,” had inspired his editor to ask for an entire series on the character, but the author himself was having misgivings. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z

I took a short story written by Satyajit Ray, a very interesting story and I adapted it. A Minute With: India director Dibakar Banerjee on "Bombay Talkies" 2013-05-02T10:25:39Z

Each time I finish a short story, I think, Well, that one’s done. This Week in Fiction: Haruki Murakami 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

But “Dubliners” is the more accessible precursor to that masterwork, so much so that a few of the characters from these short stories also inhabit “Ulysses.” Honoring James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners,’ Published 100 Years Ago 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Q: How do you adapt a short story to an Indian setting? A Minute With: Vikramaditya Motwane on O. Henry in Bollywood 2013-07-05T05:13:30Z

She follows that effort with this eclectic group of eight fantasy-tinged short stories. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Le Guin was the author of 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, 13 books for children, many short stories as well as literary criticism, according to her website. U.S. author Ursula K. Le Guin dies at 88: family 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

One reader, cleverly citing the ironical meanings of the phrase "Community Life" in her short story of that title, wondered if the novel as a form presumed a sense of social connection that she doubted. Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z

Rather, its disparate installations function, at their best, like good short stories. No man’s land 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

In my view, at least, the best short-form animation — like the most memorable short stories — is daring in perspective and malleable in interpretation. ‘The 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Charming, Safe Collection 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Now, the Spokane native and New York Times best-selling author is releasing his first collection of short stories. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z

That they issued the statement at all is testimony to the persisting impact of Babel's violent, beautiful, troubling short stories. A brief survey of the short story part 38: Isaac Babel 2012-02-10T10:22:38Z

The author even jokingly compares himself with Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield, who had appeared as a character in earlier short stories. JFK Library to show Salinger letter to Hemingway 2010-03-26T10:44:00Z

In this Man Booker Prize-winning first novel by a master of the short story, Abraham Lincoln visits the grave of his son Willie in 1862, and is surrounded by ghosts in purgatory. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Johnny and I were in a band whose name referenced a William Burroughs short story. Block rocking dad 2013-02-26T08:36:22Z

Vaye received the ninth annual Story Prize on Wednesday night for "Battleborn," a collection of 10 short stories set in the American West in the past and present. Claire Vaye Watkins wins $20,000 short story prize 2013-03-14T01:49:08Z

This week I was alerted to a wonderful piece of criticism of a Lawrence short story, written by the great Ford Madox Ford himself. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z

But the last great modern TV western was perhaps the cable series Justified, based on a short story by Elmore Leonard and taken off air in 2015. From Gunsmoke to Deadwood: why the US turns to the wild west in times of crisis 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

In the interstices between work and motherhood, she began turning her short story into “The Bluest Eye.” Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Between them their innovations – informed most discernibly, in Joyce's case, by Ibsen, French symbolist poetry and the Irishman George Moore – have influenced nigh-on every short story writer of the last 100 years. A brief survey of the short story 2011-03-09T09:41:46Z

The score for “Odessa,” by Leonid Desyatnikov, was written for the 1990 Russian film “Sunset,” inspired by Isaac Babel’s short stories about Jewish gangsters in Odessa at the end of the Russian Revolution. No More Gang Rape Scenes in Ballets, Please 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

It's based on a short story about a car accident and a man kills a child. ArtsBeat: Alexander Skarsgard Answers Your Questions 2012-09-10T20:06:52Z

She was kicking herself because she has yet to convey to him how much she enjoyed his book of short stories, “Uncommon Type,” which she had read a year earlier. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Too much expansion of a short story will be just as painful as too much compression of a long one. Does 'The Jinx' threaten traditional feature documentaries? 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Did English teachers have connections to magazines that published short stories? Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Life After God by Douglas Coupland A book of short stories, with a connecting theme of a generation brought up without religion. Jim Bob's top 10 illustrated books for adults 2010-05-05T10:32:00Z

“Pious” is not the first word that Joy Williams’s masterly short stories usually bring to mind. Review: Books by Amie Barrodale, Joy Williams, Hubert Mingarelli and Rikki Ducornet 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Wood is haunted by fiction and its effects; two reviews in the collection, written 20 years apart, analyze the same short story, Chekhov’s “The Kiss.” In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Though Margaret Atwood is best known for her dystopian novels, her early short stories, including those in “Bluebeard’s Egg,” offer witty, earthbound characters shaped by the natural world. O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Schwab had traveled to Los Angeles from Edinburgh, where she lives, for the premiere of “First Kill,” the Netflix series based on her short story of the same name. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Six weeks after the surgery, the National Enquirer ran a short story. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

“We tried to throw a bunch of short stories together for the cable show, but because of commercial breaks, we needed, like, seven and a half minute stories,” says Sinclair. Budding Success 'High Maintenance' Is About More Than Drugs 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Paul’s Case,” based on the short story by Willa Cather, is a collaboration between the eclectic composer Gregory Spears and the playwright Kathryn Walat. ArtsBeat: Cutting-Edge Chamber Opera Festival to Offer Five Works 2013-07-17T14:20:28Z

Like so many of Shepard’s plays and short stories, this narrative explores the confusions of identity, the pull between freedom and roots, and the hard-to-erase dissonances of family life. Review: ‘The One Inside’ Presents Sam Shepard in a Minor Key 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Catherine Lacey, an author who published a short story in Astra Magazine’s first issue, said its end does not bode well for the future of literary fiction. Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn’t Enough. 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

Slowly but surely, the film pulls you in, thanks to the spiral motif, the rhythm of the edits and the quotation from a 1960 Ballard short story that itself features an organic artwork. Movie Review: Mary Frank and Tacita Dean Shape Two Documentaries 2014-04-15T22:43:26Z

Fiction writers usually need more time than poets or nonfiction writers to absorb historical events, and novels and short stories about the coronavirus remain rare a year into the pandemic. Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Chang is probably best known for “Love in a Fallen City,” and the short story that was transformed into Ang Lee’s sex-filled spy film “Lust, Caution” in 2007. Chinese Writer Cements a Legacy 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z

But the inspiration of "An Arab Love-Song" is thought to be a later acquaintance, a young short story writer named Katie King. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

Though his myriad of short stories are enormously popular in his homeland, it is his theatrical contributions to world drama that have earned Chekhov international fame. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z

The archive includes 18 contemporary fiction books, two non-fiction publications, 10 historical fiction works, and her short stories. Bodleian handed Trollope manuscripts 2014-03-25T10:32:40Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian It was Hemingway who perhaps came closest to defining the art and craft of the great short story. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

He wrote a short story in his class about getting to see the Fleet Foxes’ tour bus. Rock music’s purpose: Make us dance 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

I was in the army in Egypt and I wrote a short story because I had time. Paddington's Forebear: A Talk With Michael Bond 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The masterful closing sequence, like an elegant short story in itself, leaves the impression that Bobby will never find one, either. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

He reads an eloquent short story about the night in question, that is rich in description of the nubile young woman. Never meet your heroes: Casey Affleck accepts his Oscar while an episode of “Girls” addresses sexual harassment 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

As a follow-up to his short story collection "Monstress," Tenorio continues to illuminate the plight of the Filipino immigrant, caught in a state of otherness and often loneliness. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Author Fanny Blake is on the judging panel for the shortlist of Costa's new short story award. Costa's new short story award to be judged anonymously 2012-07-17T08:26:04Z

Her bleak, scathingly humorous short stories, shot through with moments of violence and grace, have become a kind of template for the form. University Acquires Flannery O’Connor’s Papers and Effects 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Strand magazine, which specialises in crime fiction and short stories, is named after a mystery magazine published in London between 1891 and 1950. Unseen Joseph Heller story out this week 2013-07-22T14:19:31Z

A short story by the author of “Circe” retells the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

I mainly spent those nights writing poems and short stories and my earliest attempt at a novel, while trying not to dwell on the demonic groans from my empty stomach. The working poor in the Hamptons: I cleaned a rich author's swimming pool while writing my own novel 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coates recalled a conference about two years ago, where Ms. Gay read a zombie short story. Marvel’s World of Wakanda Will Spotlight Women, on the Page and Behind It 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

While it seemed like everyone in the world was looking for “the next ‘Gone Girl’” in the wake of her immense success, Flynn wrote a short story for George R.R. Gillian Flynn isn’t writing “the next ‘Gone Girl'”: “I feel like I need a break from their voices in my head” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Anderson has prestigious live dates scheduled for 2010, and a book of short stories is due next year. Laurie Anderson announces first studio album in a decade 2010-03-31T10:23:00Z

“My whole life, I’ve been a fraud,” he begins his devastating short story “Good Old Neon.” Will 'The End of the Tour' warp the way we think about David Foster Wallace? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

It was a bit like “My Oedipus Complex,” a short story by Frank O’Connor that I also liked, but it was, now that I describe it, more flagrantly Oedipal than the O’Connor. A Literary Dinner Party? Anne Enright Would Prefer Lunch 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The poem's form suggests, perhaps, the traditional ballad, but its narrative structure is one associated with a more modern genre, the short story. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z

The problem with books of short stories, though, is how they knock you around. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Novelist Laura van den Berg, whose short stories about the state strike me as the truest sort of new journalism, grew up in Orlando. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Debuting with the novel, he told MJ Franklin of The New York Times, was “so that people will let me write short stories in peace.” For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

I started making up short stories for them when they were babies and encouraged them to participate once they were old enough.  SAPVoice: Beyond Words: The Magic of the Harry Potter Brand 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the short story collection “If I Survive You,” which was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Read Your Way Through Miami 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

More recently, it was the starting point for Lynne Truss's String and Air – you can hear her read her short story here. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z

After the 1960s, Hazzard rarely returned to the short story form. Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

She didn’t write a lot, two novels and two collections of short stories, but it is a body of work that lingers for its portrayals of human yearning and misery. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Christopher Renz: Gerard explained his nightmare to me, and I said, immediately, "We need to write this story today," and we wrote the short story that afternoon. "Antebellum," Janelle Monae's cross-dimensional thriller, was literally born from a nightmare 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Of course, within a few years, Conan Doyle would be receiving nearly as much for a single Sherlock Holmes short story. Do we need another book about Sherlock Holmes? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

It terrified me at the time because the short story was a form I held dear to my heart, but the heart grows. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on Writing Predators and Their Victims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

At one point in this episode Alina is approached by a fan because, as it happens, she’s an author, of an acclaimed short story collection called “Italian Studies.” ‘Italian Studies’ Review: Alone in New York With Amnesia 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Alrick Brown's feature directing debut, "Kinyarwanda," is like an interwoven collection of short stories; characters who are the focus of one story pop up in the background of another, creating a tapestry of community. 'Kinyarwanda': a moving if horrific tapestry 2011-12-01T21:53:04Z

No, not technically a novel, but Davis's strange and often very short short stories are novels in miniature. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z

It makes for a good short story as a slice of life in a bygone era of American history. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

In spinning off a character from a short story by Elmore Leonard, executive producer Graham Yost created one of the most intriguing exciting lawmen on television: Raylan Givens. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

A conceptual photograph made for the short story “Orange World,” by Karen Russell. The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

I can’t resist suggesting more short stories by two of Canada’s most recognized contemporary writers. O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

On Friday night at Stories in Echo Park, Mimi Lipson will take the mike to read from her debut short story collection, "The Cloud of Unknowing," published by the small independent Yeti Publishing. Mimi Lipson on her debut collection, 'The Cloud of Unknowing' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

When, at 23, I vanity-published a collection of short stories and poems just to have a hard copy of my writing before I died, he asked me if the stories had any swearing. My awful past keeps me from writing 2013-02-25T01:00:00Z

But it’s great for tiny babies because the short stories are, in some cases, very short. Read to Your Baby, Say Doctors — But Which Books? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

There was such a firewall between nonfiction and fiction at the time, so I lied and said, “Here’s a short story I wrote.” In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

The film cleverly brings together WW Jacobs's celebrated short story The Monkey's Paw with The Wicker Man, and it's both touching and scary. Wake Wood ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:28Z

This week: A “Dreamgirls” reunion, a trio of short stories adapted for the stage, and a controversial Holocaust-themed drama from Poland. L.A. theater openings, July 3-10: 'right left with heels' and more 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Each drink on his hand-stamped Potations, Preparations, and Libations menus, printed on the back of vintage Keno cards, reads like a short story. Perfecting the Art of the Cocktail 2012-04-05T21:50:00.863Z

Daniels’s first book, at just 126 pages, includes essays and short stories, thoughtful and almost self-consciously literary, which all originally appeared in The Paris Review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

You would tuck me in and read a very short story. A letter to… a very special au pair 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s no wonder that the painted-egg precision of short stories allows reviewers to comfortably celebrate female accomplishment, even to celebrate it prominently in the case of Alice Munro. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Photographs: The Gaskell Society The Manchester home of Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and short story writer, is to be restored thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £1.85m. Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester home to get £2.5m restoration 2013-02-13T08:17:36Z

His creative urges have found expression in memoir, short stories, comic books, essays and television. A Novel of Kentucky Noir, So Humane It’s Bathed in Light 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Christine is a novel that, King once said, began life as a short story. Rereading Stephen King: week 15 – Christine 2013-01-30T14:40:59Z

Five runners up in each category will win copies of Morris's new short story collection, Pizza Cake. Enter our Morris Gleitzman short story writing competition 2012-05-30T13:22:58Z

“And when I get stuck on a novel and I can’t work on it anymore because I’m sick of it, I’ll switch over to a short story,” he added. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z

A: I wrote a 12-page short story and read it at a Humanities Washington “Bedtime Stories” dinner. Jamie Ford writes about ‘a different world’ — 1920s-’30s Seattle 2013-09-06T21:49:48Z

LONDON– Eighty-five years after its first publication, Agatha Christie’s ghoulish short story series “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” is getting new life — as an app. Agatha Christie's Mr. Quin Finds New Life as an App 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

His short stories include "The Enigmatic Eye," "The Carnival of the Animals" and "The Ballad of the False Messiah." Brazilian novelist Moacyr Scliar dies at 73 2011-02-27T17:31:04Z

Baraka wrote poems, short stories, novels, essays, plays, musical and cultural criticism and jazz operas. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

He followed it with a collection of short stories and several novellas but stopped publishing in 1965 and withdrew from public view. New footage 'added' to Salinger film 2013-09-23T11:10:16Z

But even those who dismissed his earlier novels as merely satire acknowledge the brilliance of his short stories, the energy of his journalism. Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence 2013-01-18T17:02:38Z

It’s hard to imagine that any writer of short stories other than Saunders would be asked to appear on such coveted programs as “The Late Show With David Letterman” and “The Colbert Report.” Congratulations, by the way: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders and fighting the TED Talks-ization of commencement speeches 2014-05-05T00:00:00Z

He compares it to a book of poorly written short stories. Books of The Times: Greenberg’s ‘Book of Woe’ and Frances’s ‘Saving Normal’ 2013-05-01T21:12:33Z

“He said, very generously, that it was a mess as a short story but might make a decent novel,” Mr. Marra said. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Four are billed as essays; two are said to be short stories. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Change, growth, the movement of consciousness toward maturity — the short story tends to depict these processes with serene melancholy, but the stage is a more head-butting place. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

First up is Adam Barruch with “Belladonna,” inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” in which love ultimately proves an insufficient antidote to poison. Dance Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Any of my short stories or poems or songs, I run the emotion through my body. Jewel on Coping With Heartache: ‘I Peel Off Every Scab and Stick My Finger in Them’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The novel is the crown jewel of culture for Cynthia Ozick, who has written novels, short stories and criticism, winning major plaudits in all forms. Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Lavie: “The Best of Jeffrey Ford” came out recently, the definitive collection by this modern master of the fantastical short story. Perspective | The best science fiction and fantasy of the year so far — plus what we’re looking forward to next 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Famously, it's harder to write a short story than a novel. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z

He could forget about the judge who during his divorce proceedings had told him that “rather than publishing short stories in The Paris Review for $50 dollars apiece” he “should instead write for the movies. ‘ Philip Roth may have given his last public talk 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I still don’t know if I can write short stories. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z

Fleming himself died in 1964, having written 12 Bond novels and eight short stories. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z

I learned how to do so when working on a novel and after struggling with short stories. A writer's solitude vs. AWP: Viet Thanh Nguyen on what we share with others 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Allen’s routines were not rapid-fire bits lobbed at the audience; instead, he told long-form jokes that were more akin to short stories, a form he perfected in his collections Without Feathers and Getting Even. Rare Woody Allen Stand-Up Comedy From the 1960s to Be Released 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

He’d just published “This Side of Paradise,” which was a huge success, but had he written many short stories? This Week in Fiction: The Lost Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

New characters are introduced at such a rate, you fear it all will unravel into a book of short stories. Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

I had no idea how to write a short story anymore. This Week in Fiction: Anne Enright on Writing from Life 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

In fact, this chapter — a masterful short story, really — is almost too good, in that it casts a shadow over the others, which don’t attain the same level of complexity or poignancy. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The Story Prize was founded to celebrate short fiction and bring attention to short stories with a significant financial award. Elizabeth McCracken wins the Story Prize 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

It is unfortunate, then, that the overriding impression is of a collection of interconnected short stories being forced into the shape of a rather unsatisfying novel. White Masks by Elias Khoury – review 2013-03-22T17:06:01Z

It’s been nine years since Saunders published a collection of short stories, the form that made him famous. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The best short stories today are written by people whose interests are literary and artistic, full stop. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane on Running Away to Sea 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

I was looking at the last 40 pages and thought of making a short story. Why tell an Iraq war story backwards? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Fowler does drop a hint on what the novel is “about” by prefacing her tale with some lines from Franz Kafka’s short story, “A Report for an Academy.” Karen Joy Fowler’s novel of a very complicated family 2013-05-29T22:24:45Z

There are quiet literary in-jokes, as well: The name Schartz-Metterklume, for instance, derives from Saki’s deliciously cheeky short story about a quick-witted female trickster. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Too bad the digital age doesn't control the quality of these short stories like... Digital age brings revival of the short story 2013-02-16T18:02:06Z

Last month, Hanks published his first short story ever in no less than the New Yorker. Tom Hanks to publish short story collection with Knopf 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The first time I wrote a short story I ripped off Stephen King. Stephen King’s Reign of Terror Continues in a New Novel 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

His 2004 short story, “Fire in the Hole,” was the basis for the series. ‘Justified’: You will never leave this TV series alive 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

This morning, just a little after 7 a.m., he began crowdsourcing a short story with the line “2016, june. Overnight. Connecting.” Is that Don DeLillo crowdsourcing a story on Facebook? 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

She wrote and directed the 2006 film "Away from Her," based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." Margaret Atwood's 'Alias Grace' coming to small screen, thanks to Sarah Polley 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Booker-shortlisted British writer Sarah Hall is in the running for her first short story collection, The Beautiful Indifference. Nathan Englander set to head race for 2012 Frank O'Connor award 2012-06-07T16:48:09Z

"I sometimes see somebody who might be a character in one of my books or short stories," Backalenick said. Community, creativity and caffeine: What coffee shops reopening means to New Yorkers 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

The Swedish Academy described Munro as the "master of the contemporary short story" when it awarded her the Nobel prize earlier this month, likening her work to that of 19-century Russian author Anton Chehkov. Ill health keeps Canadian author from Nobel ceremony: academy 2013-10-18T09:58:42Z

Browsing the comments below, I see that someone mentioned Maupassant's short stories, and I second that. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

When she had a short story in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” fiction issue in 2010, she consented to answer questions for the magazine’s website. Review: In C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings,’ Racing Against the Tide 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Susan Hill’s short story Crystal is ‘just perfect’ as a Kindle Single. Why short is sweet when it comes to digital reading 2013-01-28T09:00:02Z

Times bestseller in fiction this week is the short story collection “Uncommon Type” by Tom Hanks. Books: Best Books of 2017, Andy Weir, American Airstream contradictions and more 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

The novel in its spaciousness allows world enough and time for epochs to evolve, but the short story must seize in its thimble, all at once, crisis and its crux. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

During the 1950s, he began to write radio plays and published short stories in the New Yorker. Brian Friel, playwright who wrote about his native Ireland, dies at 86 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

“After 30 years away from the short story, it is good to have her back, cleareyed and fearless as ever, whispering difficult truths and ambiguities that a less assured writer would feel compelled to shout.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

After the war, a few parts were published as short stories in magazines. Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

Later that day, in the cafeteria, a girl who took AP English asked me if it was true that Mrs. Jones had taught a short story I had written. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Three of the five short stories she has published in recent years revolve around the North Korean prison system, a topic she became fascinated with during a stint with the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The club Julia Pierson is joining: Life after a Washington scandal

Were you compelled, in part, to write “Hystopia” because you wanted to go to places that were difficult or impossible to reach under the constraints of the short story? “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.” Alice Munro Puts Down Her Pen to Let the World In 2013-07-01T21:24:22Z

Although the fragment can’t stand on its own as a short story, the outline could provide sufficient guidance for some modern writer to complete the novel. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Then he embarked on a peripatetic life that included extended periods in Berlin, New York, Milan and Portugal, where he wrote novellas, short stories, essays and articles. Simon Lane obituary 2013-01-28T12:23:36Z

Animals and humans connect in odd, amazing ways in these luminously illustrated short stories and poems. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The opening sequence describes what we are meant to assume is a typical week or so in the life of Patti Smith, and is followed by a short story titled “Devotion” and a brief postscript. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

When Hahn learned thather daughter was going to marry Alfred Vecchio, a Fulbright scholar from Queens thirteen years her senior, she recorded her anguish in a New Yorker short story titled “Heavy Parent.” Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

A new collection of short stories - Stone Mattress - will also be published, by Virago, on the same day. Atwood novel due out in September 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

His Martian Chronicles – a collection of short stories with a common theme – were a warning about humanity's often terrible, but sometimes noble tendencies. Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration 2012-06-06T20:50:17Z

The short story features in the spring edition of literary journal . Tennessee Williams story published 2014-03-25T09:48:40Z

Shin, 47, began and stopped several times, writing other books and short stories until in 2007 she wrote a single sentence: "It's been one week since Mom went missing." Missing mother looms large in Korean novel 2011-05-31T20:34:03Z

Martin published many other work, including four novels and several short stories. G.R.R.M. Gets Bewitched By Milla 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ken’s literary ability was such that he managed to get his short story, Tapping a Maple on a Cool Vermont Morning, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, much to the annoyance of his colleagues. The Atlantic publishes short story by Mad Men's Kenneth Cosgrove 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

He published a book of poetry and another book of short stories, supporting himself in a series of odd jobs, including as an interviewer in an unemployment office in San Francisco. Evan S Connell obituary 2013-01-14T17:21:15Z

I'm also reading a selection of short stories by Miranda July. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

If you had to recommend a short story to readers, which one would it be? This Week in Fiction: Anne Enright on Writing from Life 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

During the Great Depression, when proletarian fiction was all the rage, Fitzgerald’s novels and short stories — mistakenly read as exaltations of wealth — were unpopular. Book review: ‘West of Sunset,’ a novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Stewart O’Nan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Never more so than in the beautiful and filthy short story, The Greening of Mrs Donaldson, written for a recent edition of the London Review of Books. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z

“Severance” began as a short story, which she wrote in her office, during her last months there, and it became a novel after she was laid off and continued writing while living on severance pay. Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

“I’m perfectly happy writing short stories at my own pace.” Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

My first book — it’s a novel in short stories — is in part about my father. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

When Victoria Schwab sat down to write a short story for an anthology about vampires in 2019, she already knew that she would adapt whatever she wrote for television. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Molaskey is an interpreter whose acute attunement to the subtext of lyrics, which she imbues with a subtle rhythmic buoyancy, lends songs, especially those of Stephen Sondheim, the depth of great short stories. John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Café Carlyle 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The choices shocked and fascinated Gaiman, who had offered up the 40 or so short stories not already under option. Neil Gaiman on his TV invasion: 'It was Terry Pratchett's last request' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

The short story eventually expanded into The Hate U Give. The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg: ‘Our generation is upending Hollywood’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

In addition to his record collection, the young Knausgaard has brought a typewriter with him to the top of the world, on which he bangs out his first short stories. Karl Ove ­Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Except “Arrival,” which is based on the short story “The Story of Your Life,” by Ted Chiang, didn’t die. How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vestal earned the honor for “Godforsaken Idaho,” a collection of short stories. Shawn Vestal Wins PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

In Adams’s photographs the lighted details are allowed to feel accidental, even prosaic; they are not “chosen” in the way a “telling detail” in a short story is. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Adams rose to prominence with short stories, many published in The New Yorker, and novels like “Superior Women.” 9 Books to Watch For in December 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

In the eighth grade she had another chance to write a short story for a school contest, and this time won first prize. Never stop crossing borders 2013-01-27T15:59:00Z

The opera is based on a Kafka short story that explores the themes of due process, torture and capital punishment. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

During those years bunking with former classmates in a huge loft on Avenue A — complete with the classic touch, a bathtub in the kitchen — Mr. Pierce began writing short stories, some just a paragraph long. Kander & Pierce, a New Team in the Musical Theater 2012-05-23T21:58:57Z

Walter Mitty, a fictional character from a 1939 short story by James Thurber, defines a person not comfortable in his own skin or surroundings, alienated by idealistic aspirations. Social alienation proves popular in Hollywood's fall lineup 2013-10-23T13:02:18Z

And he summarizes the themes of this collection: “Euthanasia and gerontology figure in the ’80s short story as distinctively as live-in lovers, Little League, shopping malls, television, and rickety extended families of stepparents and stepsiblings.” Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

There are 38 William books in all, short stories rather than novels. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

None of the alternative Americas envisioned by the conspicuously talented Matthew Baker in his new collection of short stories, “Why Visit America,” is implausible. Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z

It's been 28 years since her breakthrough short story collection "The Safety of Objects," and more than 15 since her last one, "Things You Should Know." A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Later, Tangier became the landscape that inspired my first collection of short stories, “Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits.” Read Your Way Through Tangier 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

The short story, whose impact can be diluted in a collection, benefits enormously from the format. Why short is sweet when it comes to digital reading 2013-01-28T09:00:02Z

Among her compatriots, she’s certainly not alone in her admiration of Anton Chekhov, widely considered one of the finest short story writers. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

He primarily writes short stories that are whimsical, surrealist and darkly funny, and that make meaning from life’s smallest, most unremarkable interactions. ‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’ 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Since becoming a full-time writer in 1971, Dunn has produced more then 10 collections of poetry, as well as short stories and plays. Poet Douglas Dunn wins Queen's medal 2013-12-18T13:13:11Z

In "Short Stories Live: The Comic Criminal," local actors will read excerpts from classic short stories that are long on humor. 'The Comic Criminal' readings at Town Hall 2011-10-27T20:20:05Z

But that still leaves a dozen great novels and collections of short stories. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Schwab spent four months working on the short story, which is about 33 pages long. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Although Chan had published a few short stories and had worked at Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine that gave her some insight into the process, she had few connections. How to Get Published: A Book’s Journey From ‘Very Messy’ Draft to Best Seller 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Eight years went by before her second collection, Walk the Blue Fields, appeared and won the 2008 Edge Hill award for short stories. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

I was married then to a woman who worked at the publisher Faber & Faber and it had published a short story by Roland Starke that I thought was very, very good. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Haley’s short stories are authored in McEwan’s controlled, lucid style, where singular and seemingly trivial incidents become turning points, resulting in previously unforeseen consequences for the protagonist and those around them. Ian McEwan, novelist-historian 2012-11-14T21:06:00Z

Well, it's not my favorite short story in the world. Essayist Sloane Crosley reveals the literary bad man who inspired her first novel 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

We read short stories in my Yale class, and I wouldn’t assign a story that isn’t one of my favorites. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The day Santiago had been scheduled to photograph protests, the paper ran a wire photo of the demonstrations instead, along with a short story with no interviews. The standoff between owners and journalists that’s eviscerating Pittsburgh’s biggest newspaper 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

After the “Fat City” film came out, Mr. Gardner adapted one of his short stories, “Christ Has Returned to Earth and Preaches Here Nightly,” into a screenplay called “Valentino Returns.” In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

A tireless worker, Colette spent the 1920s and ’30s producing novels, short stories, plays and memoirs. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

One could do worse than to read Gogol, whose absurdist short story “The Nose” could help Mr. Snowden understand that living in Russia might not make any more sense than living in the United States. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z

“Pond” is a slim novel, told in chapters of varying lengths that resemble short stories. Review: ‘Pond’ Makes Misanthropy Compelling 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Right now I’m working on finishing up my first collection of short stories, which will include “The King’s Teacup at Rest.” This Week in Fiction: Michael Andreasen on Writing with Solemnity and Humor 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

His first short story was published when he was 14. Gamal al-Ghitani, Egyptian Novelist, Dies at 70 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Fashion & Style » Weddings and Celebrations Opinion » Op-Ed: Back to School Paul Murray writes a short story on the end of summer, and the beginning of an education. Video Game Review: It?s the Same Old Mob, Now Sampled for Gamers 2010-09-05T21:52:00Z

Milne’s short story collections about a human boy and his fuzzy friends. Revisiting Childhood Wonder With Winnie the Pooh and Emmet Otter 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Moore's short stories can span time in painstaking ways. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

As I was lying there, tossing around, an entire short story enacted itself for me. This Week in Fiction: Ian McEwan on Literary Crimes 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

She wrote 11 books, including six novels and several collections of short stories and essays. Mississippi author Ellen Douglas dies at 91 2012-11-08T01:46:07Z

Liu experimented with fiction, and one of her short stories, “Bookworm,” ran in People’s Literature. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

What follows is a powerful, subtle and engrossing reworking of Siegfried Lenz's short story "The Night in the Hotel". Wastwater; Hotel Confessions; Terminus; Wife to James Whelan ? review 2011-04-09T23:06:09Z

Ms. Schiff writes: A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a trailer, a fling, a warm-up act, a bouillon cube, a championship game in one inning. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Nathan Englander Talks About His New Stories 2012-02-17T20:15:02Z

The first three productions are a revival of Conor McPherson’s “Port Authority”; “A Christmas Memory,” based on the Truman Capote short story; and Hugh Leonard’s play, “Da.” Renovation Plan Sends Irish Rep's Season to a Temporary Home 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Irwin Shaw captured its wispy allure in his classic short story, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” using the dress to conjure a mood of diffuse urban longing. Keeping Cool, Fashionably 2011-07-20T21:59:08Z

Moorcock is the author of an almost uncountable number of short stories; he’s edited anthologies, written critical books of nonfiction and had his novel “Mother London” shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The only story written specifically for the book is “The Brakes,” which is the final chapter in a trio of very short stories about a guy named Tommy. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z

The award is given for "a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction." Brando Skyhorse getting PEN/Hemingway Award 2011-03-26T23:11:13Z

She read from her most recent short story, which she told the audience would probably be her last. Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish writer, dies aged 72 2012-07-30T23:18:52Z

The short stories here are anarchic; they tend to read as if he had stuffed three narratives into one, like squirming bats into a duffel bag. Books of The Times: ‘Four New Messages,’ Stories by Joshua Cohen 2012-07-31T12:00:00Z

He was a master of the dark satirical short story. Riz Ahmed Finds the Beat Between Qawwali and House Music 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

It's more of a short story than a full feature, following a Lisbon man's infatuation with a young lady he spies in a window across the street. This week's new films 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

Thursday 3 January Borges's short stories were what showed me the way: how, with exquisite legerdemain, to fuse the literary, the philosophic and the anecdotal. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

In Gabriel García Márquez’s famous short story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” the wings of the man teem with parasites and are as raggedy as a bird’s might be. ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

But the title of this collection of 14 short stories hints at the general disposition of the tales — flinty, truculent, sardonic. 'Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain': down, out and confronting death 2012-06-06T21:18:09Z

Following the success of the “Brokeback Mountain” film, Proulx said fans of her text sent her fan fiction that rewrote the ending of her short story, claiming the original was too sad. Onstage, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Is Still a Tragedy 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Nobody says Kafka's short stories are rubbish because they're not the length of a novel. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z

Spun off from Jemisin’s 2016 short story “The City Born Great,” the novel figures cities as living, sentient organisms that are “born” into human avatars, midwifed by the previous city to be delivered into sentience. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

A short story delivered verbatim as a monologue, it is told by a man quite at home with his solitude. Battered but Unbowed: How Beckett Speaks to a New Era 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Argentine footballer Lionel Messi was among the famous people mentioned British children are increasingly using American English in their writing, according to a report based on entries to a BBC short story competition. UK children 'turn to US English' 2012-05-29T13:24:02Z

It would just take a couple of years to finish that short story collection, and then it would be sold and published and win prizes and I would be famous. Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen: On uselessness 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The essay has gained ground on the short story. A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

"Son of Good Fortune" recalls Souvankham Thammavongsa's short story series "How to Pronounce Knife" in its critical and whimsical observations of American life, but wasting little time on sentimentality. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

“Florida,” Groff’s new collection of short stories, is headquartered in a “dense, damp tangle” of a state, “an Eden of dangerous things.” Lauren Groff’s Stunning New Collection, “Florida,” Unfolds “in an Eden of Dangerous Things” 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Which Italian opera was based on a Broadway play that was adapted from an American short story, inspired by a true incident in Japan, as evoked in a French novel? Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z

More enchantment lies in Kelly Link’s deadpan, winsome collection of short stories “Magic for Beginners,” though angst haunts these pages, too. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

I wanted to start with a short story about two siblings who are experiencing trauma. ArtsBeat: A Filmmaker?s Path From Rwanda to Tribeca 2011-04-20T12:08:33Z

The profoundly influential choreographer, who died in 2018, was a masterful creator of taut, piercing short stories in dance. Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company makes a triumphant return to Kennedy Center 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Dirty Wedding,” a short story from the November 5, 1990, issue. Denis Johnson in The New Yorker 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Her most recent collection of short stories, “Difficult Women,” is filled with quirky, surrealist tales of sisterhood, loss and toxic relationships. Roxane Gay decided to write about being overweight. It took her to some painful places. 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Rush plays a lowly civil servant driven mad in the darkly comic play, adapted from an 1853 short story by novelist Nikolai Gogol. Geoffrey Rush to go mad on stage again in 'Diary' 2011-01-10T21:50:30Z

Similarly, Amelia Gray, author of "Gutshot" and "Museum of the Weird," said short stories begin with a question, like a thought experiment, and novels begin more as an exploration of images. Festival of Books: Short stories differ from novels, but how exactly? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

Then, the second year, my very last time I handed in a short story, he handed it back and he said something complimentary. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

"He's written 11 novels and let's say a hundred short stories," Englund said. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z

Another cog in the corporate wheel occupies the central role in the short story entitled, “Snow Globe.” Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

When we got to Frank’s adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story, “The Sin of Jesus,” Israel said, “The sound’s out of sync sometimes. Robert likes things out of sync.” A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

To read all the Father Brown short stories at one sitting would be richly indigestible; taken singly they remain an irresistible feast. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

His short stories in this collection pinwheel, with a rotating cast of narrators and shifting points of view. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Having each author work together to write 11 novels is obviously out of the question, so having them write short stories is the next best thing. Series characters paired in ‘FaceOff’ anthology 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Her senior college project was a short story inspired by the shooting of Oscar Grant. The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg: ‘Our generation is upending Hollywood’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The British writer has penned a short story, titled The Right Sort, in 140-character instalments. Mitchell to put next work on Twitter 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

When she says there are lessons to be learned from these novels, short stories, poems and dramas, she’s saying so with an expert voice. Review | The surprising — and surprisingly funny — lessons one woman learned from Russian literature 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The anniversary is 23 November and on the 23rd of every month this year a new Doctor Who short story written by a famous writer is being published. AUDIO: Why Doctor Who at 50 'is not going away' 2013-01-23T10:13:14Z

Bradbury, who died in June aged 91, was the author of hundreds of short stories, as well as the novels Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451. Curiosity Martian landing point named after Ray Bradbury 2012-08-23T12:05:05Z

I was only a little way into it when I was invited to submit a short story to Nightjar Press for publication as a chapbook. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z

A celebrated novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet, he is best known for the novel “Tree of Smoke” and the short story collection “Jesus’ Son.” ‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Her first short stories were published in The Irish Press by David Marcus, who, she says, gave "many Irish writers their first break". Deirdre Madden: 'The Troubles are almost always in my work at some level' 2013-06-14T15:00:05Z

And yet, the short story is the form I enjoy writing the most. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Giraud is also the author of several other novels and short story collections, none of which have been published in English, though many previous Goncourt winners have later landed translation deals. Brigitte Giraud Wins Goncourt Prize With Tragic Novel of Loss 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Hall published three short stories in The New Yorker in the early nineteen-sixties—“A Day on Ragged,” “The Wild Heifers,” and “Christmas Snow”—all bucolic depictions of childhood set on a New Hampshire farm. Donald Hall in The New Yorker 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

DJ Chris Evans is to broadcast from St James's Palace after enlisting the support of the Duchess of Cornwall for his children's short story contest. Royal addition to 500 words contest 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

I write short stories about these places, called Point Reyes Sheriff's Calls under the pen... Your Vacation Mission? Find This Stolen Horse 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

I'm working on trying to put together a collection of short stories. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

His wife went out for several hours and returned with an American first edition of “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes,” the collected short stories published in the 1920s. A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

A short story, “3:10 to Yuma,” became a classic film starring Glenn Ford in 1957 and was remade in 2007. Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America

Imprisoned in her own body and terrified, she started writing short stories to keep her mind occupied. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Essay collections, poetry, short stories… the stories behind the stories. The case for fortysomething festival goers 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Bradbury's first book, a short story collection called "Dark Carnival," was published in 1947. Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies 2012-06-06T15:02:47Z

Too smart for drugs, too wise to grab the quick buck, their endurance is a long-running adventure from a time of depressingly short stories. Jeff Williams UK Quintet, Mudhoney, Olöf Arnalds: this week's new live music 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z

For young readers, I think starting off with his short stories is never a bad idea. Bradbury 'a bright burning spark' 2012-06-06T17:44:08Z

Her six novels and four short story collections were all set in the Deep South, from New Orleans to north Louisiana and Alabama. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

What do you like about the short story form? Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

The nine chapters, which feel at times like short stories, proceed mostly chronologically, with regular flashbacks and occasional depictions of the same event from more than one person’s perspective. Ann Patchett’s Latest Novel Follows Six Siblings Over 50 Years 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her other book, “Mr. Death,” published in 1975, is a slender collection of short stories for young people on the theme of mortality. Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

His short story “A Martian Odyssey” may read a little awkwardly in places due to its pulp nature — it was published in 1934 in Wonder Stories magazine — but it changed the science fiction field. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Carter's final project, the 2009 independent film That Evening Sun, was shot in Tennessee and was based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay. Housewives actress Carter dies 2010-04-12T08:37:00Z

Later, when I was 10 or 11, I wrote a short story in school and it dawned on me that this might be a way to lie and get away with it. Vendela Vida takes readers inside her new novel, 'The Diver's Clothes' 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

If one can sometimes compare a biography to a novel, “A Book of Secrets” reads like a series of linked short stories. Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z

“Winter Sleep” was inspired by the short stories of Chekhov, as well as works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Cannes Film Festival: From Writers' Fights Came 'Winter Sleep' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

Storage Stories, his "comic fictional autobiographical novel and collection of short stories", is published this week. Jim Bob's top 10 illustrated books for adults 2010-05-05T10:32:00Z

Mary Gaitskill’s first book of nonfiction — a cool and formidable collection of essays, reviews and other matter — takes its title from a sentence in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Gooseberries.” Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

That’s the place where the realist novel or short story tends to happen. Tessa Hadley on Teen-Age Losses of Innocence 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jimmy is a fictional character and has no existence outside a few novels and a short story. Q&A: Roddy Doyle, author of ‘The Commitments,’ ‘The Guts’ 2014-02-08T00:56:37Z

For me, the diary entry, the short story, or the poem just didn’t cut it because they seemed to lack a certain reflective element that I believe to be the core of the essay genre. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

In nine pieces, which include essays and two short stories, Beard shows her dazzling skill at finding universal truths in singular situations. 10 books to read in March 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Robert Westall was also a towering figure, not only as master of the spectral short story, but as author of The Scarecrows, one of the most frightening novels I have ever read. How Edgar Allan Poe scared the bejesus out of my childhood heart 2010-07-07T11:34:00Z

In Lily King’s short story “Creature,” 14-year-old Carol has fled the ruins of her parents’ marriage to spend her summer babysitting for the children of a wealthy family in her New England town. Lily King Tries Her Hand at Something New: Short Stories 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

I do plan to write another novel, but the writing I find most interesting today is in the short story. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane on Running Away to Sea 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Lee's moody rendition of the song, whose lyrics are based on an 1896 short story by German author Thomas Mann, reached the top 20. Jerry Leiber, Rock ?n? Roll Songwriter, Dies at 78 2011-08-22T23:15:06Z

I’ve made myself do things that frighten me, big weird things that might make for good short stories some day, and important life things that I thought would crush me with their gravity. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z

“I’m a famous guy and I wrote a book and all that, but the reality is, how much does a collection of short stories really warrant attention?” Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Ecco announced a first printing of 100,000 copies, far more than what is typical for a book of short stories. A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning. 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

He went on to publish several other collections and novellas, including his widely celebrated 2013 short story collection, “Tenth of December.” George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize for ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Updike, tiptoeing his way through the intricate syntax of “Lifeguard” from his short story collection “Pigeon Feathers,” sounds impossibly youthful and fey. Hearing Genuine Voices of Midcentury Fiction 2014-01-19T22:40:18Z

Back in Nigeria, he edited and produced discussion programmes and short stories for the NBS in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, and learned much about how good dialogue works. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z

Vanessa Hua made her startling and impressive debut in 2016 with her collection of short stories about the immigrant experience in America. March to the shelves for these new books: Recommended reading for spring break and beyond 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

The Festschrift is, however, graced by a couple of short stories by Herbert himself. James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z

The Portrait, based on a short story by Gogol, was composed in 1980 and is a satire on greed, much like Shostakovich's own Gogol opera The Nose. This week's new live music 2011-01-29T00:06:06Z

In the end this book made me think of Joy Williams, who deadpanned in one of her short stories: “Kids. They’re in a different lane.” ‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

“There are lots of ways of being miserable,” says a character in a short story by Edith Wharton, “but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running around after happiness.” Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

Throughout May, to mark Short Story Month, Vintage will release a digital short story each day for 99 cents, the price of many iTunes singles. Short Stories for E-Readers, 99 Cents Each 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

"The Seven Good Years" is Keret's first book of nonfiction, after five collections of surreal and wonderful short stories. Etgar Keret's memoir opens an odd, alluring window into life in Israel 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

About the author: Alison Moore's short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z

“Butterfly,” an opera based on a short story and subsequent play, helped perpetuate the modern Western stereotype of the obedient, long-suffering Asian woman. A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly’ — to Save It? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

I have long been a lover of Hector Hugh Munro and his short stories, and I'd like to propose a trio of stories from Saki. Season's readings: Three stories by Saki 2010-12-23T13:04:07Z

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Ms. Le Guin, 85, has published more than a dozen children’s books, 22 novels and numerous volumes of poetry, translations and short stories. National Book Award Goes to Phil Klay for His Short Story Collection 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

This week, Knopf announced it will publish a short story collection by Tom Hanks. Typewriters through the years: from tools to inspiration 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Marshall character Raylan Givens from his short story "Fire in the Hole." Author Leonard dislikes eBooks, still loves movies 2010-10-15T19:51:00Z

After all, it was a short story, “The Lottery,” that catapulted Shirley Jackson to stardom, and many novels, such as Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall,” started off as shorter works. Review | Let’s talk about the best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

One of Mr. Lustig’s short stories begins with two young men fleeing from a train and hiding in the woods. Arnost Lustig, Writer of the Holocaust, Is Dead at 84 2011-03-05T05:58:42Z

“In the past, I was writing short stories that romanticized Beirut,” she said, “because it’s ‘poetic,’ right?” At a Queer Theater Festival, the Plays Are Brazenly Personal 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” is one of the most remarkable short stories in contemporary North American literature. Understanding apocalyptic events through literature 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

Even though the cartoons are largely comic, and lack the richness of detail that a short story affords, it would be wrong to dismiss them as juvenilia. A fresh look at Flannery O'Connor 2011-07-05T16:12:32Z

His career now spans nearly three decades and includes not only novels, but short stories, screen and stage plays, and children's books. My hero: Roddy Doyle by Kerry Hudson 2013-07-19T15:59:00Z

A stream of award-winning and acclaimed novels, short stories and two volumes of memoirs have followed, including "American Pastoral" that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize 2011-05-18T10:46:04Z

The bilingual Anglophone published more than 100 short stories in her lauded career, many of them in the New Yorker magazine and in collections such as “The Other Paris, “Across the Bridge” and “In Transit.” Legendary Montreal-Born Writer Mavis Gallant Dies 2014-02-18T17:13:43Z

Maigret was the hero of 75 novels, 28 short stories, many films and endless TV series in numerous languages, including Japanese. Bruno Cr?mer obituary 2010-08-25T17:23:00Z

It represents the pinnacle of Nabokov's work in the short form, and is for me one of the great short stories of the last century. A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov 2010-08-25T09:05:00Z

But whether she is writing short stories or novels, and despite the beauty of her finely detailed prose, Hadley is still very clear that she's a storyteller. Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011-02-28T00:04:00Z

The collection, three short stories and a novella, is published on high-quality sustainably harvested paper. Russo's newest work pays tribute to printed books 2012-06-24T16:23:12Z

Her many honors included the Rea Award and PEN/Malamud prize for lifetime achievement in short fiction, five O’Henry prizes for short stories and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Not every great short story is the seed of a great novel, but Kenny by and large succeeds. Two Novels, United by Troubled Daughters of Damaged Fathers 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

The caricatured faces and the garish cartoon colors applied to the reading of excerpts from O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” are the bad kind of jaw-dropping. ‘Flannery’ Review: Stories About a Writer 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It was chosen from a selection of roughly 320 novels and short story collections, all published in the United States in 2010. ArtsBeat: Deborah Eisenberg Wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2011-03-15T17:52:30Z

But the scammer has also requested experimental novels, short story collections and recently sold books by first-time authors. The Mystery of the Disappearing Manuscripts 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

In Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story The Lottery, the inhabitants of a small town gather every year to randomly stone someone to death. What were we thinking? The worst trends of the decade – ranked! 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Now this city-owned cottage, where Poe wrote the poems “Annabel Lee” and “The Bells” and the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” is receiving the finishing touches of a nearly half-million dollar renovation. Edgar Allan Poe?s Bronx Cottage Readies for Its Reopening 2011-10-26T15:36:34Z

A novel or a series of loosely connected short stories? Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

I wrote a short story once that was semi-autobiographical, which I’ll never publish, a novella actually—the child in the story was raised in New York with famous parents. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

It’s like changing a novel into a short story, to me. ArtsBeat: The 'Mad Men' Season That Almost Wasn't: An Interview With Matthew Weiner, Part 1 2012-03-07T13:00:32Z

His best work is in his novels, but the short stories, collected this year and translated into English for the first time, allow you a different kind of pleasure. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

But neither the short story’s last hurrah nor the casual sexism of the literary world turns out to be Miller’s main subject. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The characters in your short story "The Anarchist's Convention," for example, are aging activists. Lit Fest: Sayles stays rooted in change 2011-06-01T21:26:00Z

And around half of these short stories don’t feel fully explored or finished. Irreverant stories of Arab-American women fill Randa Jarrar's 'Him, Me, Muhammad Ali' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

That $25,000 bought her time to turn her attention to writing, shaping the short stories she had been tending for years. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

“We felt so strongly the best gift right now, in these times, is a bit of hope,” Miner said of the project, which has 24 short stories loaded with hope. Seven Comic Books for This Season (and the Next) 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The film opens with Jo walking into the offices of the Weekly Volcano and offering a short story to its publisher, Mr. Dashwood. What Greta Gerwig Saw in ‘Little Women’: ‘Those Are My Girls’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Barney Rubble turned out to be a homicide detective and helped me with the plot of a short story. From propping up the bar to working at the Samaritans – how I learned to listen 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

It is a love triangle which turns into a fear triangle and a hate triangle, based on a short story by Haruki Murakami. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

"Are you nervous, honey?" she asked one young woman who was about to receive feedback on a short story. For Maya Sloan, ghostwriting Jenners' YA book just part of fiction fun 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

My mother would read “The Little Prince” and the short stories of Oscar Wilde to me when I was little. R.J. Palacio and Meg Medina Talk Diversity and Children’s Books 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Revising how we see ourselves is rarely as easy as revising a short story. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Why theatricalize a work that achieves its excellence through the short story virtues of modesty, compression and understatement? Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Tan is best known for two more recent best-sellers, the short story collection "Tales from Outer Suburbia" and the graphic but wordless migrant journey "The Arrival." A new life for Shaun Tan's lovable lost thing 2011-03-02T19:34:21Z

Photograph: Mark Haskett Ron Rash's "bleak" collection of short stories set in Appalachia, Burning Bright, has won the American author the world's richest prize for the short story form, the Frank O'Connor award. Frank O'Connor award goes to Ron Rash 2010-09-20T11:37:00Z

Bude Novi exploration not only do the liver, but also breathe and smell that people refer to as honesty through each short story. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z

You couldn't watch television and read short stories by would be F Scott Fitzgeralds at the same time. The norms of Norman Rockwell 2011-01-30T22:00:03Z

The finalists for this year’s prize include two debut novels and two collections of short stories: The 2016 finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

I realised that the greatest short story writer in South Asia was Buddha, where the stories of his previous lives were recounted as Jataka tales. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z

"Usually, I have outlines for everything that I write, even short stories." Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z

A squalidly funny collection of short stories set in the ruined fairground of Brexit Britain, these “postcards from hell” present parochial filth as mock epic. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

This year’s collection, edited by Lorrie Moore, celebrates the past century of short stories. Spare Times for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Over the course of more than six decades, the Nobel-winning South Africa author Nadine Gordimer, who died on Sunday at 90, wrote more than a dozen novels and many more short stories. Nadine Gordimer: 5 Essential Reads from the Award-Winning Author 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

I recorded an episode a while ago that featured Mona Simpson’s short story “Wrong Object,” as read by Cynthia Nixon. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

The third novel included in this omnibus is Smith’s hitherto unpublished homage to the famous detective Sexton Blake, but I’m saving it — and the short story “The Imperfect Crime” — for sometime later this fall. ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith

Paddington creator Michael Bond has written a new short story about the Peruvian bear. Bond writes new Paddington story 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Her mother’s short stories chronicled the sheltered adolescence of “Monica” in an English boarding school, often in excruciating detail. Getting to the Bottom of a Mickey Hahn Mystery 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Based on a Stephen King short story, it stars Pierce Brosnan as the brilliant but quite mad scientist Dr Lawrence Angelo, who uses virtual worlds to expand the minds of chimpanzees. Spielberg's Ready Player One – in 2045, virtual reality is everyone's saviour 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

The idea for it arose when his life changed and a short story he’d once read struck him anew. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Some years ago, he published a respectfully reviewed short story collection and, ever since, he’s been trying to write his first novel — accent on the word “trying” because Robert’s imagination has run dry. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

For any cruise enthusiast who’s taken weeklong or similar sailings, going on a world cruise is like being a literature lover who’s only read short stories and discovers the joys of a novel. Cruising around the world in 115 days 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Nickolas Butler follows up his acclaimed debut novel, “Shotgun Lovesongs,” with this collection of well-made short stories set in the Midwest. Reviews: New Books From Anne Roiphe, Nickolas Butler and More 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Berg has created something between a post-apocalyptic horror movie and a Raymond Carver short story, which works, even if it's not always very fun to watch. HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Byatt and Will Self - is billed as the world's most valuable prize for short stories. US writer Anthony Doerr wins short story prize 2011-04-08T21:09:09Z

Silvia: Looking at horror, “The Unsuitable” by Molly Pohlig blends body horror with Gothic fiction; and Kathe Koja, author of grungy, Weird fiction classic “The Cipher,” has released a second short story collection, “Velocities.” Perspective | The best science fiction and fantasy of the year so far — plus what we’re looking forward to next 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Device 6, a thrilling blend of short story and puzzle that features music, sound effects and text that can be followed only by rotating your phone or tablet, received an Apple Design Award last month. Text Games in a New Era of Stories 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The short stories in Hunt’s first collection, “The Dark Dark,” are mostly just as beguiling as those novels, and they wear their magical flourishes even more lightly. Review: ‘The Dark Dark,’ Beguiling Tales of Women in Metamorphosis 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

King’s novels and short stories are awfully effective as movies. The Big Chills: 10 Greatest Stephen King Movies 2013-10-21T09:45:56Z

Using photographs and postcards, the display illustrates the mysterious atmosphere of Victorian London described in the Holmes canon of more than 50 short stories and four short novels. In London, a Study in Sherlock 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

He also wrote short stories, poems and children’s stories. Agent: Author Chinua Achebe Dies at 82 2013-03-22T12:24:32Z

It’s out June 5; a short story, drawn from the book, appeared in The New Yorker earlier this year. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

This tale of fiction and reality feels like three short stories laboriously woven together; never quite harmonizing. 'The Words': Several pages short of literary-thriller glory 2012-09-05T18:50:07Z

Ray Bradbury said one way to begin writing a short story or poem is to make a list of 10 things you hate and start tearing them down. In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Horror-Tinged New Novel, a Mesmerizing Star Appears in the Sky 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Do you write short stories because you don't see the point in doing something longer, or because you don't have the disposition to be a novelist? George Saunders: 'It was good to have a painful immersion in capitalism' 2013-05-26T08:00:06Z

Tyler remembers a short story she wrote in which a poor black woman looks at her hands and likens them to an India ink drawing. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z

The short story anthology as a first book is rarer than unicorn pie. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

He was, of course, a master of the short story who came to his own no good end with a shotgun. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Banks found work in a bookstore, fell in with a literary crowd and began to write poetry and short stories. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

A TV show is not a novel—nor is it a short story, nor anything else but TV—but it can still benefit from following E.L. Serial Killers: Are HBO-Style Dramas Ruining the TV Episode? 2012-02-21T15:40:59Z

Open City did eventually publish a Robert Stone short story, “High Wire,” in the summer of 2008. Two Readings with Robert Stone 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Five short stories are read by five noteworthy actors in a tribute to the enduring influence of this writer’s work in all its darkness and sublimity, before his death last year at age 67. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

In this way, the essay is closer to a great poem or short story than to a piece of journalism. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z

The short story is a “critical genre in Syrian literature,” Hanadi Al-Samman, a professor of modern Arabic literature at the University of Virginia, told me. No Longer Driving a Cab, a Syrian Writer in America Focusses on His Fiction 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Which reminds me: Did anyone read David Gilbert’s short story called “Here’s the Story” in the New Yorker? Hank Stuever on whether AMC is in a rut

Given that short stories are so horrifyingly demanding technically, the anthology was an opportunity to give my prose its initial experience of proper training. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

She also wrote short stories, memoirs, essays and speeches. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

Ms. Smith’s books include short stories, works of nonfiction and five previous novels, two of which were also shortlisted for the Man Booker. Ali Smith on Her New Book, ‘How to be both’ 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

He branched into writing theater criticism, newspaper columns, librettos and short stories. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Wells also published a debut collection of short stories in Germany last year and is now writing another novel. In ‘The End of Loneliness,’ a German-Swiss Novelist Confronts Death and Loss 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Cynthia Ozick is currently working on a collection of short stories. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

In her journal, she jots down her plans to lead a music school of her own one day, alongside reflections on music and a few short stories, including one about gamblers in New York City. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

He, originally created in a 19th-century short story by Irish author George Moore, was the main character in a play called "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs," running Off-Broadway in 1982. Glenn Close on a 'once-in-a-lifetime thing' 2012-01-23T19:13:03Z

In the small space of a short story, I wanted to explore multiple viewpoints and relationships. This Week in Fiction: Allegra Goodman 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

A photograph made for the short story “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The Best New Yorker Photography of 2018 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

As productive as he was profligate, with nearly 200 novels and as many short stories, Simenon often wrote of men and women drawn into affairs that end in pain or violence. Sex and Death at Cannes 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Franco's collection of short stories "Palo Alto," released last year, received a mixed response by reviewers with some commenting it lacked insight and depth. James Franco signs deal with Amazon for first novel 2012-01-04T19:58:54Z

His spare and graceful prose in a score of novels and numerous short stories was compared to Ernest Hemingway’s, while his perceptions about American society reminded some critics of Henry James. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

His first book, "Down to a Soundless Sea," a collection of short stories, was published in 2002. John Steinbeck's son, fellow author Thomas Steinbeck, dies 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Among my haul was a boxed set of SF author Isaac Asimov's early short stories. The private life of books 2010-04-07T10:16:00Z

"Golf Stories" is a collection of 18 short stories or book excerpts by an all-star collection of authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner, P.G. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z

The series is part of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, with each short story being based on one of the eleven Doctors. Final Doctor Who e-book author named 2013-11-05T07:18:25Z

The poet and short story writer Raymond Carver, son of a sawmill worker, grew up in Yakima and drew heavily on the town’s grittiness to enrich his stories of desolation. Running Thousands of Miles in Search of Yourself 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Stern's first collection of short stories, Chattering, is published by Granta. The hearing world 2010-05-29T23:02:00Z

I remember writing very short stories as comprehension exercises for my college students. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z

Emma Martin, from Wellington, said winning the short story prize was "a wonderful and unexpected honour". Authors win Commonwealth prizes 2012-06-08T14:26:31Z

Yet Pierce, who until lately worked mainly as a short story writer and playwright, isn’t shy about asking whether a song might work better with a single voice or a chorus. Kander’s second act: Kander and Pierce, with new musical ‘Kid Victory’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Here are excerpts from three of his short stories, originally published by the Bodley Head in Britain and Viking in the United States. ‘Hot and Unhappy in Unwise Shoes’: A William Trevor Sampler 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Last fall, Ms. Nowak left her job of 20 years to pursue her dream of writing poetry and short stories. Working Through Their Issues, One Lake at a Time 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

It was a very impressive episode, though it was kind of hard to marry this short story with the character who was driving this conspiracy. The Cigarette Smoking Man of ‘The X-Files’ Resurfaces 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

She went on to write five novels and seven collections of short stories that won her a substantial following throughout the country. J. California Cooper, author of tales of African American life, dies at 82

Moore, who made the final selections, did not include any statements about her choices; she instead penned a short story about being an author. '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

I remember sending a short story someplace when I was in high school, so I must have had thoughts about that, but really I was mostly a reader. "I want to believe": Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic, practical and otherwise 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

Katherine's revelation of a previous tendresse for a young poet associated with the locale – together with the couple's surname – may faintly recall Joyce's short story The Dead. Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy) – review 2013-05-09T21:29:01Z

War, like cancer, is a friend to the short story writer. Phil Klay’s New Novel Is a Sobering Look at America’s Wars 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Over 1,100 short stories were submitted for this year's prize. CK Stead wins short story prize 2010-03-26T22:05:00Z

The complex relationship between novels or short stories and their film adaptations might be an analogy for the relationship between painting and design. Review: Elaine Lustig Cohen’s Paintings Move Into Philip Johnson’s Glass House 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Rowling’s collection of short stories on Pottermore are meant to provide background for the Harry Potter prequel film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which will be set in 1920s New York. J.K. Rowling Spills Details on Flapper-Era Wizardry 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

A book of short stories charting similar compulsions, The Song of Silent Snow, followed in 1986, and then two late novels, the last of which, Waiting Period, appeared in 2002. Treasuring Hubert Selby Jr 2010-09-16T13:51:00Z

He is an absolutely sui generis actor who resembles nothing so much as an Edgar Allan Poe short story made flesh. ‘Worlds Fair Inn’ Review: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

He read some of Sayles’s short stories recently and enjoyed them very much. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

His first published short story, which came out in The New Yorker in 1958, had also been a lightning rod. Books: Rare Unfurling of the Reluctant Philip Roth 2011-09-15T11:30:11Z

Mr. Englander, 41, is the author of two widely-praised works: “The Ministry of Special Cases,” a novel, and “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,” a collection of short stories that includes “The Twenty-Seventh Man.” ArtsBeat Blog: First Play by Nathan Englander Postponed From Public Theater Season 2011-11-21T20:46:15Z

Which American author’s short story May Day uses the riots of 1 May 1919 as its backdrop? The merry month of May 2012-05-21T09:31:23Z

Jones’s short stories, she writes, “remind us — so gently it is easy to overlook their underlying ferocity — that we are all just tiny figures inside the sweep of an often violent history.” Review | ‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Backstage, he revealed he was wearing a shirt that once belonged to author Raymond Carver, whose short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," figures prominently in the movie. Inarritu wins Directors Guild Award, giving 'Birdman' another major prize 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Bradbury was always more a short story writer than a true novelist. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury: He Jumped Off Cliffs and Never Hit the Ground 2012-06-06T17:50:51Z

This collection of short stories is about life in the West Indies in the 1930s and ’40s. What to Read Before Heading to the Caribbean 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

And it ends with a fictional short story about murder written by you. "#MeToo was our rehearsal space": An interview with Shelly Oria 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

She is starting to direct short films: the first, Kitty, from 2016, based on a short story about a girl who turns into a cat, and more recently Carmen, about a fortysomething standup comedian. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I hope my family aren’t going to read this’ 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

His earliest influences were American writers including Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers, and his first, unsuccessful literary efforts were short stories, a form in which he was never entirely at home. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z

Enriquez’s frightening short stories have made her one of the most popular Latin American authors writing today. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

I would do anything to read a new short story by Julie Hecht, who gets my vote for funniest writer. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

I love short stories, both as a reader and a writer, and at the moment my focus is on completing my collection. This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Evidently the colonel's "Escape to Hell" -- "marketed in the U.K. as a single collection of short stories and essays" -- leaves much to be desired. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-08-23T21:24:00Z

A Brooklyn novelist and journalist of hipster repute, Ames based Bored To Death on a short story he wrote about the time he became a private detective himself. The slacker meets the sleuth 2011-03-26T00:02:00Z

I thought it was a short story, and he told me it was a novel. The Author of ‘The Nest’ on How She Got Up the Courage to Write 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

In the late 1980s, Mr. Folsom sent some of his short stories to literary agent Aaron Priest, who told him there was little commercial interest in that form. Allan Folsom, author of blockbuster novel, dies at 72

This is Taddeo’s first book, but she has garnered two Pushcart Prizes for her dense, disturbing short stories about women. What Do the Sex Lives of ‘Three Women’ Tell Us About Female Desire? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

The author of more than 50 novels, countless short stories, essays and articles, she also worked as a cabaret dancer, actress, mime and beauty consultant. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

In 2008, Mr. Amis published “The Second Plane,” a collection of 12 pieces of nonfiction and two short stories about the Western world and terror. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

“The Thanksgiving Visitor,” Truman Capote A sequel to Capote’s beloved "A Christmas Memory," this short story follows Buddy, an 8-year-old boy growing up in the Depression-era South. 7 fictional Thanksgivings to fill your holiday craving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Not just the first ghost story but the first short story I’ve ever written. This Week in Fiction: John Lanchester on Ghost Stories 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Books like “The Laws of Evening,” the short story collection by Mary Yukari Waters, taught her about addressing loss. Nina Sankovitch, Allaying Grief Through Books 2011-08-12T20:52:47Z

Rain is a well-known impresario in Thomas Hardy’s 1883 short story “The Three Strangers.” Woody Allen’s romanticized rain (and Hemingway, and Toni Morrison and James Joyce) 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

The lyrics made up unsettling short stories, all the more creepy for their delicate orchestral backdrop. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

A doorstop that celebrates the life of the experimental writer, this collection brings together over 50 examples of Gass’s work — essays, criticism, short stories and novels. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The award was established in 2004 to honor short story collections. Claire Vaye Watkins wins $20,000 short story prize 2013-03-14T01:49:08Z

The catalog will contain a new short story written in the show’s honor by Michael Cunningham, the author of the “Mrs. Dalloway”-inspired novel “The Hours.” The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Revealed 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

His latest book is the short story collection How It Ended Last week I was at a party in a Manhattan art gallery attended by the inevitable mix of artists, journalists and wealthy art collectors. Jay McInerney on Obama: 'We have to give him a second chance' 2012-10-13T23:09:01Z

Ms. Thorington began her pioneering work in the 1970s as a writer interested in expanding her short stories and scripts into impressionistic radio dramas. Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The characters in my short stories feel more fabricated, and more comical. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Reviewing it for the , Anne Enright described it as "seven perfect short stories" in which "the hurts she describes are so ancient and keen that we find ourselves scrabbling for a timeline." Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

She added that she was “constantly trying to make the guitars louder,” and cited Alice Munro’s short stories as a recent inspiration. Alvvays, a Dreamy Indie-Rock Band, Cranks Up the Volume 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

IT HAS long been said that Ernest Hemingway kick-started the super-short short story, known as flash fiction. Flash mob 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Scary short stories, a British police procedural, and a 19th-century ruffian figure in this month’s crime fiction. May crime fiction: Oates, Robinson and NW authors 2014-05-07T20:18:58Z

Nine of these confections, arrayed in a formation that recalls “The Brady Bunch” or J. D. Salinger’s short stories, sell for $25, worldwide shipping included. Meet James Middleton, Kate Middleton’s Brother and Co-Owner of Boomf 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

It was named, he told me, with the air of someone imparting vital knowledge, after a short story by Ray Bradbury. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

A collection of 31 short stories, some previously published, some new, by the gifted Seattle author. Alexie, Evison, Wilson are Pacific Northwest Book Award winners 2013-01-07T21:40:18Z

One of the book's stories, "Homecoming," earns him an O. Henry Award for one of the best American short stories of the year. Key dates in the life and work of Ray Bradbury 2012-06-06T18:58:09Z

After the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, I wrote a collection of short stories called “After the Quake.” The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The reading will include poems, letters, short stories and his play, "Under Milkwood." Prince Charles to be part of marathon Dylan Thomas reading 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“An American Pickle,” which is adapted by Simon Rich from his short story “Sell Out” and directed by Brandon Trost, may have an inherently absurd premise. Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen on Playing Ancestral Homies 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Her prolific output included 18 novels, three of which were filmed, two collections of short stories, several plays for stage and television, and many articles, essays, columns and reviews. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

The sage of poststructuralism extracts meaning from a short story by Balzac with the care of someone removing kipper bones from their teeth. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z

What drew Eudora Welty, who wrote incisive short stories about the South, to the work of Kenneth Millar, who wrote hard-boiled detective novels, set largely in the West, under the name Ross Macdonald? A literary mystery: What drew Eudora Welty to detective writer Ross Macdonald? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But a couple of years later it was reprinted in a short story collection, and that was the first one to show a character on the cover. George R.R. Martin on How ‘Nightflyers’ Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Possible 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The deal, announced Thursday, includes three novels, a short story collection and a book of personal essays, her first-ever nonfiction release. Author Laura Lippman has 5-book deal, not all of them novels 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Characters in these short stories, many of which were recently republished in English in a collection called “Sea Loves Me,” speak with voices that are recognizably Mozambican. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

"Rock music has been going downhill since the death of Buddy Holly, discuss" or "Write a short story set in England in the year 2001." My prize-winning European tour with 50 other post-A-level teenagers 2010-08-17T19:30:00Z

His third book “Life After God,” a short story collection, evoked contempt from one reviewer for rehashing the same “self-pitying, small-scale ennui of Generation X.” Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Tape 56 is the overarching “framing narrative” that stitches together the found-footage short stories in this portmanteau movie. Zombie movies – ranked! 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

King has written a frankly astonishing number of short stories. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z

Mr. Hannah himself admitted to being a short story writer first, with an imagination calibrated to the short burst. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

We had a meeting at the beginning of the month and she said, “How do you write a short story?” This Week in Fiction: Anne Enright on Writing from Life 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

It has prose of a caliber that we haven’t seen since Joseph Conrad in his short stories. Werner Herzog on Why You’ll Never Find Him on Facebook or Twitter 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

A busy man, Fuentes wrote plays and short stories and co-founded a literary magazine. Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies 2012-05-15T19:31:10Z

There are eight books in the series, plus a book of epilogues with a short story called “The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After.” ‘Bridgerton’ books are popular again, thanks to Netflix show 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Keret, a master of the short story, finds humor in the darkest places. New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

He loved it, despite the class’s unenthusiastic response to his first effort, which he described as a short story “about a troubled 18-year-old smoking too many cigarettes behind the U.P.S. store.” Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

I’m also a big reader, and I have a studio in London where I can write short stories and paint and just be. Imogen Poots Keeps Everyone Guessing in ‘Outer Range’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

He took a year off between high school and college, during which he worked in a U.P.S. store, missed his girlfriend and began writing short stories about a lovelorn guy working in the same store. Anthony Marra on ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena’ 2013-05-29T20:47:38Z

Another Drift contributor, James Yeh, remarked that the magazine had just published a short story he’d been working on for more than five years. The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

To consider yourself well versed in contemporary literature without reading short stories is to visit the Eiffel Tower and say you’ve seen Europe. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Why on earth does one have children? a mother wonders in the short story “The Shorn Lamb.” Jean Stafford’s Novels Frankly Survey the Kingdom of Childhood 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Surely, we have all the necessary ingredients for a good William Trevor short story right here… A random selection of postcards. The secret contents of secondhand books 2012-12-05T15:13:31Z

She spends her free time going to the local library and writing short stories — some of which she passes off as autobiographical — on Zeke’s computer. Books of The Times: She?s Making Friends in a New Place 2011-04-21T22:41:45Z

A novelist, short story writer and essayist, Davis is also an acclaimed translator. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

His first short story was published in a literary journal in 1981, the biography on the Nobel Web site said. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z

With its themes of forgiveness, ties that bind and the healing effects of time, it has the richness and humanity of a James Joyce short story. Movie Review: Three Programs in ?Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012? 2012-02-09T23:35:18Z

Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry were among those who protested about Radio 4's plan to cut the number of short stories it airs from three a week to one. Radio 4 in partial U-turn over cut in short stories 2011-07-28T06:20:53Z

An anthology of short stories in the fantasy genre by Hobb/Lindholm, the popular Tacoma author who writes under two different names. Local books: 'It Gets Better'; a Robin Hobb fantasy collection; 'Crow Planet' in paperback 2011-05-10T00:44:04Z

It's got a short story writer's sensibility -- a knack for capturing a city, or a life, in a few well-chosen details. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z

With an anthology of short stories, poems and extracts being published in Arabic and English simultaneously by Bloomsbury agreed La Roche, "their words will travel." Writer petitions the Israeli supreme court over travel ban 2010-03-26T15:04:00Z

“I thought the short story form had left me,” she said. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Lovecraft’s short story, follows a family that has recently traded the city life for a quiet New England Farm. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘S.N.L.’ and Young Dylan 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

The long-running short story magazine One Story is an example, he said. Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn’t Enough. 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the short story, the narrator is 25, relating a recent episode set in 1988. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Like so many optimistic young M.F.A. graduates, Mr. Hill moved to New York City in his 20s with a hard drive full of short stories, hoping to land an agent and a publisher. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

His latest collection of short stories, “Three Moments of an Explosion,” crowds virtuosity into every sentence. Review: China Miéville’s ‘Three Moments of an Explosion’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

I would have thought he would have picked up a pen and written a poem or a short story but men’s brains, I have learned, work very differently from mine. How I knew I could cook: It's easy, if you're born to it 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

And your short story collection “Some Possible Solutions” was just released. Helen Phillips talks about getting under people's skin in her new book, 'Some Possible Solutions' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

He said the prize was particularly gratifying given that "short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore," with only a few magazines like The New Yorker and Playboy still printing them. Anthony Doerr wins Story Prize for short literature 2011-03-03T04:25:14Z

The first installment in the trilogy is based on Harris' short story "The Gunnie," which first appeared in the 2016 anthology "Unfettered II: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy." 'True Blood' author Charlaine Harris will launch a new fantasy series set in a fractured America 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Jones got so overwhelmed writing about Penélope Cruz last year that he wrote a short story about a bullfight instead. The Most Cringeworthy Moments From Emilia Clarke’s Sexiest Woman Alive Profile 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

These short stories about Marines in Iraq are brutally frank about the traumas and moral compromises of a new era of war. Here Are the 15 Best Books of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

If the titles above prove anything, it is not only that the short story is flourishing still, but that it is also, perhaps for the first time in the field, genuinely international. Review | Let’s talk about the best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

The top prize winner at Cannes, Ceylan's latest comes from a variety of Chekhov short stories. 10 films to see at the Chicago International Film Festival 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

One of his short stories, adapted by Neil Simon, became the Elaine May film “The Heartbreak Kid.” Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z

It is a typically Oulipian exercise in which 12 short stories are translated by 61 novelists into 18 different languages. Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z

This remarkable collection of linked short stories moves from the last century to this one, from Leningrad to Kirovsk, a Siberian labor camp turned toxic hellhole, from Chechnya into outer space. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Whether or not that writer’s tutelage shows here, I can think of no better a short story writer to borrow from or emulate. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Years later, studying for a Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Iowa, she adopted a similar strategy, reading short stories clipped from The New Yorker as she did lab work. Yiyun Li’s ‘Kinder Than Solitude’ Echoes a Beijing Childhood 2014-02-24T22:58:48Z

Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

The work concluded with “An Outside With an Inside in It,” a text from Italo Calvino’s short story “At Daybreak,” the most introspected element of this colorful song cycle. Music Review: Works That Make Technology an Ally 2011-06-01T22:38:12Z

Several of these chapters are masterful short stories in their own right, but Wetmore knits them together with increasing intensity. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

The Devil having been last seen on American shores conversing with Daniel Webster in Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1937 short story, Falwell was actually suggesting that modern American politics would be taking a radically new direction. With God on Their Side: How Evangelicals Entered American Politics 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

In his assertion of a distinctive American mythos, Johnson’s only rivals in the short story are Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver. Review | Denis Johnson is gone, but he left us one last sublime collection of stories 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

A clutch of short stories set in the village quickly followed, which in turn mutated into a novel. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z

But “Fiddler” was adapted from a collection of short stories about a strong central character, not from a movie about many. Review: In ‘Monsoon Wedding,’ an Arranged Marriage of Musical Styles 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

For once, it wasn't politics, television or film that sent social media into a frenzy — a short story published in the New Yorker set off a fierce debate on Twitter over the weekend. A short story in the New Yorker sparks an intense debate on social media 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

In the US, people are always bemoaning the death of the short story. US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist 2010-07-09T16:30:00Z

I was ten years past learning to ride a two-wheeler; I was ten years from publishing my first short story. The Power and Limitations of Victim-Impact Statements 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Her short story collection, “Each of Us Killers,” is forthcoming in September. Review | In ‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ stories of Lao immigrants reveal everyday moments of racism, classism, power and privilege 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Each programme features an interview with a leading author and a reading of the author's favourite short story by another writer. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

In his senior year, his short story “The Poker Game,” published in The Harvard Advocate, won the Dana Reed Prize, awarded for the best work of fiction in an undergraduate publication. William Melvin Kelley, Who Explored Race in Experimental Novels, Is Dead at 79 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

While Gaiman’s “Norse Mythology” transmutes the tales of ancient Scandinavia into expertly paced short stories for the 21st century, Carolyne Larrington’s “The Norse Myths” offers a wide-ranging guide to those gods and their world. Review | Neil Gaiman’s suspenseful and surprising ‘Norse Mythology’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

As Joyce Carol Oates has said, "the Joycean short story is immediately recognisable as a sub-genre in which the directness of the prose and the suggestive ellipsis of poetry are blended". A brief survey of the short story 2011-03-09T09:41:46Z

Mrs. Dean sometimes read him “true romance” magazines, full of short stories. Walter Dean Myers: Ambassador for Young People?s Literature 2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

“The Clasp” is essentially a love triangle and a comedy of errors, but it’s a tribute to another form of art that’s not in the novel — the short story. Sloane Crosley on book trailers, book clubs and her new novel, ‘The Clasp’ 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

In her excellent review of Skin and Other stories, she recommended Road Dahl's short stories to any readers over the age of nine. Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-14T08:00:00Z

But a series like High Maintenance, and the bold, risk-inclined bottle episodes of non-anthology shows, argues implicitly that the real virtues of television lie in its capacity to take the form of a short story. Why TV's brightest shows are turning episodes into standalone stories 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Both the film and short story follow the lives of two cowboys, Jack and Ennis, as they navigate their secret romance in 1960s Wyoming. Annie Proulx Regrets Writing 'Brokeback Mountain' 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

They will present short stories whose subjects include snowmen, northern lands, winter winds and magical mittens. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z

"Olive Kitteridge" is built on the scaffolding of separate short stories that, to lesser or greater degrees, involve the title character, a teacher in a coastal Maine town. Review: Strout's new novel a Maine family saga 2013-03-25T18:00:10Z

Cosby kept writing, hundreds of short stories, and the small breaks kept coming. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Burns’s short story collection, “The Missing Woman,” will be published in June. Rita Mae Brown, awarded as pioneer of lesbian literature, scoffs at the term 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

In schools today, fifth-graders still read Shirley Jackson’s elegant, chilling short story “The Lottery,” about a fictitious lottery where the winner gets stoned to death. May the Powerball odds be ever in your favor: Poverty, greed, exploitation and the lottery lessons we refuse to learn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

If so, you may want to thank "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley's brother, Julian, who popularized the idea in his 1926 short story, "The Tissue-Culture King." 17 facts about conspiracy theories 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cash, who is previously the author of “Bodies of Water,” a book of short stories, is a self-consciously literary storyteller. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z

Jones is completing a new violin concerto for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and a chamber version of his opera, “A Christmas Memory,” based on the beloved short story by Truman Capote. One last Seattle Symphony Orchestra concert for composer Samuel Jones 2013-04-26T20:21:20Z

The Peak Mesmerising short stories, many set in pre-second-world-war and wartime Hong Kong, from one of China's greatest writers of the 20th century. Top 10 books set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z

The movie is also based on a book of short stories Franco wrote. James Franco: Skeezeball or Marketing Genius? 2014-04-04T18:03:51Z

She majored in philosophy at the University of Havana, and in 1948, the year she graduated, won a prestigious literary prize for one of her short stories. Delia Fiallo, Master of the Telenovela, Is Dead at 96 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

She followed her dream of becoming a writer, earning her MFA at Cornell University and winning the 2011 Caine prize for African writing for a short story. Debut author: NoViolet Bulawayo 2013-06-16T10:30:01Z

I would memorize a book of short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. Q&A: Ray Bradbury 2010-08-25T02:05:00Z

She found her solace in writing short stories. Juliana Huxtable: A Transgender Artist Finds Her Voice 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

In Lady in the Lake, Montgomery plays Marlowe, who submits a true-crime short story to a magazine publisher specialising in steamy pulp. How Enter the Void sees itself in Lady in the Lake 2010-09-22T11:15:00Z

In either case, size mattered in 2018, as shows with the breadth and breathlessness of Victorian novels or the miniaturist precision of New Yorker short stories played with and subverted conventional expectations of scale. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

This year, the best short story award went to Ian Sales for "Adrift on the Sea of Rains", which sees a group of astronauts stranded on the moon when nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Adam Roberts wins BSFA prize for SF crime novel Jack Glass 2013-04-02T14:44:55Z

She did the same for two other projects he was working on: the Pat Hobby stories for Esquire magazine and a screenplay based on his short story “Babylon Revisited.” Frances Kroll Ring, Secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dies at 99 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

They published several journals and anthologies of short stories together. Sci-fi author Harry Harrison dies 2012-08-15T16:40:07Z

I read a lot of science fiction, short stories as well as novels, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

"All kinds of people want to live here because it is a very generous writing community, spectacularly uncompetitive," says Rosalind, a British native and author of 11 novels and poetry and short story collections. Key West: A Writer's Town 2011-04-14T14:50:16.727Z

Something of a polymath, Topor wrote short stories, novels and plays, was a painter and cartoonist, a set and costume designer, an actor and a filmmaker. Nicholas Royle's top 10 first novels 2013-02-27T09:00:06Z

Within weeks, Alfred A. Knopf had the actor, who attended California State University at Sacramento in the 1970s but never graduated, signed to write a collection of short stories. The evolution of Tom Hanks

But short story collections and works by little-known debut writers have been attacked as well, even though they would have no obvious value on the black market. The Mystery of the Disappearing Manuscripts 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

The film is a collection of three largely unrelated short stories, which are each marked with their own title cards. ‘Love Is Love Is Love’ Review: Aging Too Gracefully 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The novels, novellas, excerpts, and short stories included in the Cheeky Frawg collection are not narratives in the traditional sense so much as a series of contextualized impressions. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The prize, which is open to any English-language book published in the United Kingdom, went last year to George Saunders’s soaring, oddball short story collection “Tenth of December.” 'Family Life,' by Akhil Sharma, Wins Folio Prize 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

It started with reading an anthology of Jack London’s short stories. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: A Thriller Director Who’s Afraid of Blood 2014-04-24T17:00:49Z

Write imagist poetry, political intrigues, short stories about country curates or stifled suburban wives and their minimalist marriages? Back from the Dead by Peter Leonard – review 2013-01-13T00:05:06Z

“Two Men,” a short story from the September 19, 1988, issue. Denis Johnson in The New Yorker 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

She wrote her first short stories in the first grade. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

This is Conrad Aiken’s first novel, though he is well known as a poet and a writer of short stories. Over time, the L.A. Times saw Conrad Aiken as brilliant, misunderstood and dishonest 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Then earlier this year Kelman published a new collection of short stories, If it is your life. Taking another look at James Kelman 2010-09-21T08:34:00Z

Mr. Herzog wrote 16 novels, two collections of short stories and nine nonfiction books. Arthur Herzog III, Author of ?The Swarm,? Dies at 83 2010-06-09T04:53:00Z

Lehane said he created the animal-themed short story as a new spin on his traditional crime tales and found himself able to revise it significantly because the source material didn't offer many elaborations. In 'The Drop,' Tom Hardy was still on camera, and unbridled off it 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wesker was also an accomplished author and fiction writer, publishing four collections of short stories. Arnold Wesker, British Playwright Known for Working-Class Dramas, Dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Colfer, who is writing the new series of Doctor Who short stories, is not directly involved in the film adaptation but he told the Irish Independent he is pleased with those leading the production. Disney to make Artemis Fowl film 2013-08-01T09:38:56Z

And he’s gone on record recently to say that he nearly missed his final game because he was busy editing short stories. Kobe Bryant’s Next Step, New Shoes and Moves With Los Angeles Artists 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

In the 20th century the short story was the site of as much innovation and great writing as the novel. Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z

Why not try writing a short story first? Annabel Pitcher: 'What I enjoy most is getting into someone else's head' - interview 2013-03-13T11:10:29Z

Nightjar is not alone in its support of the short story as an art form. Chapbooks: ancient form of publishing enjoying renaissance 500 years on 2011-03-04T11:44:00Z

Whether in text, on film or in person, short stories can be hard to produce, yet are always easy to consume. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

She’s best known as the author of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, about postpartum depression. Here Are 8 Other Famous Charlottes 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

“I was making notes on a story I was going to knock ’em dead with the next day, and I said, ‘Hey, this isn’t too far from a real short story.’ Jim Northrup, Vietnam Veteran Who Wrote About Life on the Reservation, Dies at 73 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Not that war features in “The Black Monk,” which is based on an 1894 short story by Anton Chekhov. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

The playlets are reminiscent of those empty-calorie short stories from The New Yorker. Review: ‘Good Muslim’ Highlights a Mixed Bag of One-Acts 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

I couldn’t help wishing it had been twinned with another short story by Mr. Murakami, a choice Complicite made in adapting “The Elephant Vanishes,” to open things out and make the piece less hermetic. Review: In ‘Sleep,’ a Wakeful Woman Faces Long, Surreal Nights 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The evening’s principal offering was “short stories” by Joseph Hallman, written last year for these musicians. Three singular artists present an engaging program at the Kennedy Center 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Her collection of short stories, “You Think It, I’ll Say It” was my “Lemonade.” Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

To give him credit, he guided my finger to the spot himself, by quoting from a review of his first short story collection: "Evidently eager to please," said the reviewer. Maps and Legends, Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

Hatched by the British writer Lee Child, Reacher has so far righted wrongs in 26 novels and a slew of short stories; the books have collectively sold more 100 million copies worldwide. This Jack Reacher Is Going to Be Big 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Like Casey from “Writers & Lovers,” the narrator of “Timeline” is also a writer and restaurant worker grappling with heartache and the right words, but the formal constraints of the short story yield fresh resonance. Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Arnett’s first book, “Felt in the Jaw,” was a collection of short stories, and her novel has its origins in a story idea. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Selfish Giant, a loose interpretation of Oscar Wilde's short story, set on the housing estates of Bradford, is Barnard's second feature film. Selfish Giant director becomes toast of Cannes 2013-05-17T16:40:25Z

Each year until then, an author will contribute a work of literature — a poem, short story, novel, essay or anything else, written in whatever language they'd like. David Mitchell has a new book, but you'll have to wait 98 years to read it 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Her short story, Crystal, was the best of the original Kindle Singles cohort. For single-minded writers, there's money to be made 2013-07-07T08:00:00Z

In order to mimic the instant gratification provided by the web, Argentinian publisher Eterna Cadencia recently published an anthology of short stories using disappearing ink. Whatever happened to 3:AM magazine? 2012-07-10T08:52:53Z

Is a short story always the opposite of the 14-hour historical epic that swirls around your mind for weeks? From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

He has written a few novels and short stories, he says diffidently when I ask. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

She returns with a collection of 10 short stories — half of which have not been previously published. 15 books to read this fall 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

A: The easy thing is that it is a four-page short story so you are not encumbered with details. A Minute With: Vikramaditya Motwane on O. Henry in Bollywood 2013-07-05T05:13:30Z

My indifference was such that he hasn't managed to sneak so much as a short story past me. Falling for Roddy Doyle 2010-05-30T13:37:00Z

The short story then was passed to a Fitzgerald scholar named James West who thought that The New Yorker should get another chance to read the tale. The New Yorker Publishes F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Previously Rejected in 1936j 2012-07-31T18:07:57Z

What for you is the difference between writing a novel and writing a short story? Helen Phillips talks about getting under people's skin in her new book, 'Some Possible Solutions' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Wolff is Swedish, and has published two novels and a book of short stories, all to acclaim. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

As a young man he banged out short stories on a portable typewriter. Death of a Red Carpet Reporter 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

This might be the best definition of a short story I’ve ever encountered. Stories Filled With Strivers, Schemers and Adventurers 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

And it is kind of funny when the magisterial Leonard, Mr. Rickman’s character, dismisses a short story that was six years in the making after reading only to the first semicolon. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z

I've got five novels, one book of lectures on literary theory, two short stories, and one seminal scientific paper. Charles Yu's top 10 time travel books 2010-10-20T09:29:00Z

The film, which was based on Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” received two Academy Award nominations. Gordon Pinsent, Actor Known for Playing Twinkle-Eyed Rogues, Dies at 92 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

Lee short stories about Chinese American life in the San Gabriel Valley. C.Y. Lee's San Gabriel Valley chronicles 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

In “Mistress America,” Tracy steals from Brooke the old-fashioned way: by writing about her, using her specific details, behaviors, witticisms, in a short story. Noah Baumbach, Kicking and Screaming Into Middle Age 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

"Most of the writing in the South Polar Times is scientific descriptions of expeditions and experiments, but hidden among these is a small number of particularly fascinating short stories," said White. Science Museum publishes climate change novel 2013-04-26T11:44:31Z

The plot of “Song” will sound familiar to anyone who’s been a reader of short stories in The New Yorker during the past 50 years or so. London Theater Journal: Nowhere Man 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Born in the Netherlands and raised in Australia, Mr. Faber wrote short stories for decades before he ever sought to have them published. Michel Faber Plans to Stop Writing Novels 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

The second piece, “Hesitation,” to be created with the theater director Lin Zhaohua, is based on another famous literary work: a collection of dark short stories by the 20th-century scholar Lu Xun. Dance: Beijing Dance Troupe Takes on Banned Ming Erotica 2011-03-23T12:55:07Z

“MFA vs NYC,” like the first drafts of many writing program short stories, loses energy and focus in its final third. Books of The Times: ‘MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction’ 2014-02-25T20:27:31Z

Based on a short story by Yi Nan that Li adapted, the director braids the saga of three women living in New York City. ‘In a New York Minute’ Review: Love or Freedom? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Joyce’s beloved short story ends with an elegant description of snowfall that subtly expands into a vast existential statement. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

The late South African writer Can Themba’s same-titled short story was first dramatized by the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in the 1990s. ‘The Suit’: A fitting personal and political allegory 2014-03-21T23:14:10Z

Taylor’s most recent book is the short story collection “Flings.” An almost-lost gem: 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

After their successful collaboration on adapting Daniil Kharms’s short story “The Old Woman,” for the stage, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Robert Wilson are taking on another project. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Robert Wilson Take On Nijinsky 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

He seeded his masterpiece there, drawing on his own experiences on “that slender riotous island,” and in a room above the garage turning out short stories that prefigured “Gatsby.” Eyeing the Unreal Estate of Gatsby Esq. 2010-09-30T20:30:00Z

Odd and arresting short stories, translated from Spanish, about obsessive characters. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

The short story is fundamentally different from the novel; not better, just different. Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z

Usher has an evident knack for selecting letters that land with the force of a good short story, with personalities and dramatic arcs emerging swiftly, from just a page or two. Explaining the Popularity of Letters of Note 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Previously speaking to BBC Radio Cornwall, she said she got started by writing short stories after her mother bought her a typewriter. Novelist Ida Pollock dies, aged 105 2013-12-06T13:16:59Z

In his short story it came down to those three people sitting around a table. They Dug Coal Together: Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins Look Back on 'Justified' 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

So: 1983, King, wrote what really only amounts to a short story but was sold as a novella about a werewolf. Rereading Stephen King: week 17 – Cycle of the Werewolf 2013-03-07T12:02:36Z

Not since Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” in 2006, has a debut collection of short stories from a relatively unknown author garnered such attention, or deserved it more. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

One Puppy pick, Chuck Tingle's "Space Raptor Butt Invasion," failed to bring home the prize for short story, losing to Naomi Kritzer's "Cat Pictures Please." Women and writers of color win big at Hugo Awards and the Puppies are even sadder 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Mosley might be best known for his mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins, but in these short stories, we see the prolific author as a chronicler of Black life in America. The books to read in September 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

But as a short story writer that moment is most interesting to me -- the second a character is shaken to the bone. Talking with Naja Marie Aidt about her short story collection 'Baboon' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The next morning, Christopher and I created the short story, and that was the basis for the script. "Antebellum," Janelle Monae's cross-dimensional thriller, was literally born from a nightmare 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

The two appeared together in her final project, the 2009 independent film "That Evening Sun," shot in Tennessee and based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay. 'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70 2010-04-11T04:23:00Z

White is also a writer—he won the Pushcart prize last year for his short story “Superwhite!”—and a visual artist, and he is always stretching boundaries. Cultural Clicks: Madeline Kahn, Kimmy Schmidt and More 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Smuggling punch lines into asides or seeming tangents, he attempts to approximate more of a conversation than a setup-and-punch line structure, one full of Socratic dialogues, short stories and barroom theories. Marc Maron and the Comedy of Doubt 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

It turns out he’s been writing science fiction short stories under the pen name Ben Hargrove. Mad Men Watch: Domesticity and its Discontents 2012-04-16T11:00:29Z

My short story “King Rat” is all about this book and Vidkun and what stories are just too painful to tell. How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, he began writing poems and short stories, and by the early 2000s, he was attracting national attention. Nigerian writer Helon Habila wins a Windham Campbell Prize 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“But I find German probably just starts the old clock going of my student years. So I can sit down and really settle to a Thomas Mann short story.” Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

The author of 66 detective novels, 14 short story collections and six bittersweet romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Christie has sold over two billion books. Kenneth Branagh’s "Death on the Nile" forgets Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Shostakovich’s “Nose,” after the Gogol short story, is staged by the South African artist William Kentridge; it will receive its European premiere following its 2010 triumph at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z

No fewer than 10 of his short stories touch upon the theme as well. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Before I learned this lesson, I spent my time doing what most people who want to become authors do: I wrote novels and short stories that were copies of other novels or short stories. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z

I don’t know what happened during that long break between the first and second collections, but McGuane has emerged a master of the short story. Stories Filled With Strivers, Schemers and Adventurers 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Though these Broadway-bound works couldn’t risk dealing with these themes head-on, short stories like “Desire and the Black Masseur” certainly did. Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

From sketches and tattoos to oil paintings and sculptures, Enriquez is awash in fan art, including portraits of Juan and Gaspar, of characters from her short stories, and even of herself. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

“Foundation” is built on author Isaac Asimov’s short stories that he started writing just after World War II as a 21-year-old and have gone on to become a cornerstone of the sci-fi genre. ‘Foundation’ based on Asimov’s work thinks big — galaxy big 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Strindberg folded the legend into a short story that he set here, written in 1898 and later published in the German avant-garde journal Quickborn with eerie illustrations by the painter Edvard Munch. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

From now until Sept. 22, the Humble Books Bundle is offering a set of Neil Gaiman's writing — his essays, speeches, comics, a screenplay, short stories and books. Wait, Neil Gaiman wrote a book about Duran Duran? Really? 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

The first short story that Philip Roth published, “You Can’t Tell a Man By the Song He Sings,” was in a 1957 issue of Commentary. Benjamin Balint?s Inside Look at Podhoretz?s Commentary 2010-06-11T22:30:00Z

Thom Browne, speaking from a microphone in the darkness, held a moment of silence in acknowledgment of the day and then unveiled a collection in three acts based on the 1962 short story by J.G. New York Fashion Week Returns. Here’s the Cliffs Notes Version. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

She started the book about seven years ago, as the result of fellow nominee, Smith, asking her to contribute to a book of short stories. AM Homes interview: 'I write the things we don't want to say out loud' 2013-06-07T19:00:03Z

William S Burroughs not only wrote novels and short stories on his typewriter, but used it as an ashtray too. Typewriters: an illustrated guide and a debt of thanks 2012-11-22T09:08:55Z

He wrote his doctoral thesis on Marxism and international law, and began submitting short stories, unsuccessfully, to science fiction magazines, before an agent took him on. Squid?s Meaty Role in China Mi?ville?s ?Kraken? 2010-07-23T22:21:00Z

Once an author of a short story collection, novel, and nonfiction book, in 2006, Gilbert propelled to another literary stratosphere with "Eat, Pray, Love." Eat, pray, brand yourself accurately 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Walker suggested that she try her hand at short stories and became one of her early champions, publishing her first book in 1984. J. California Cooper, author of tales of African American life, dies at 82

His collection of subtly linked short stories — the title is deeply ironic — is about masculinity under duress. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

A collection of eight short stories includes a pregnant woman making a deal with the devil, a zombie doctor and a boy who falls in love with a body. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Each episode is less truncated sitcom than entry in a length-based genre – a short story to a novel, D’Addario said, made possible by the proliferation of streaming. Fifteen minutes of prestige: how Hollywood went long on short content 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Nearly 60 years later, Chuck Klosterman is faced with an even steeper task, but in his latest book, the short story collection “Raised in Captivity,” he beats no retreat. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

There’s a short story by Raymond Carver about falling into a dry well. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

The collection of 10 short stories will be published in September, called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Hilary Mantel reveals next book 2014-01-17T09:53:59Z

Exquisitely directed by Simone Benmussa, this was an adaptation of a George Moore short story about a woman who, for economic reasons, lives as a male hotel waiter and enjoys a relationship with a chambermaid. Susannah York obituary 2011-01-16T10:38:03Z

The book shares a title with its most bizarre and macabre, though somehow touching, short story. Review | In ‘The Heart and Other Viscera,’ Félix J. Palma turns mundane moments into spellbinding tales 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

British novelist Zadie Smith, who sang jazz before she began publishing fiction, provides a curious introduction to the book: a short story written from Holiday’s point of view. Billie Holiday as we’ve rarely seen her 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The author of numerous novels, short stories and works of nonfiction, now approaching 80, she remains a forensically skillful examiner of her characters’ motives, thoughts and behavior. In ‘Grief Cottage,’ a Ghost and Other Things That Haunt Us 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Robert Coover’s new collection of short stories, “Going for a Beer,” is a mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Like “Olive Kitteridge,” “Anything Is Possible” is really a necklace of short stories about people in a small town, studded with clues about who’s connected to whom. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

But he’s speaking of murders and mayhem in his novels and short stories. If we can’t get guns out of our cities, let’s get them out of our crime stories 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Arguably, they were also better at writing short stories and poetry than writing novels. The allure of the first novel 2013-01-12T08:30:01Z

A finalist for the National Book Award, lauded for her short stories, Bender returns with a collection that reflects America’s new reality. New & Noteworthy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

“The Boogeyman,” extrapolated from a minor 1970s short story by Stephen King, might conceivably make sense to viewers with no access to proper lighting or functioning windows. ‘The Boogeyman’ Review: Monster Hash 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

The brothers are best known for the 1986 film Street of Crocodiles, adapted from a short story by Polish writer Bruno Schulz. Leeds centre prepares for OverWorlds & UnderWorlds 2012-05-17T10:01:01Z

He sent a short story to the New Yorker, which published it. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

He explains why he always tries to offset his satirical yarns with tenderness, how he likes writing children, and why he has devoted his career to the short story. Guardian Books podcast: George Saunders and summer reading 2013-07-05T12:42:00Z

In the 1980s, Moore's energy and focus were directed to a succession of short stories. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

At the Interlochen Writers Retreat in Michigan, participants pick their genre — memoir, personal essay, novel, short story or poetry — and spend four days generating material under the tutelage of established writers. When you’re ready to move from summer reading to summer writing 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

A dozen novels, 20 short stories and eight decades later, Miss Marple still rocks. Television: Long live Miss Marple, who returns to PBS on Sunday 2010-05-21T17:03:00Z

You said at your Skylight Books reading that your short stories feel more like you than “Eileen.” Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Speaking of that town, it’s the fictional Castle Rock, setting of several short stories as well as King’s early novels “The Dead Zone,” “Cujo” and “Needful Things.” From Stephen King, Master of Darkness, a Light New Tale 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Derleth's research left much to be desired and Copper was asked to revise and edit the entire series of 70 short stories and one novel. Basil Copper obituary 2013-04-14T12:32:22Z

He casts a quick glance at the short stories of 50 years ago: They reflect “a harsh world, but not a hopeless or narrow one.” Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Daniels conceived an early version while brainstorming “S.N.L.” sketches but ultimately decided to table the idea, and then later tried to turn it into a short story. With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

But it was through her short fiction that Gordimer made her presence felt the most, and two of her short stories in our archive are available for anybody to read. Nadine Gordimer in The New Yorker 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian I began my literary career with short stories. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and another one by Maupassant. Leila Slimani: By the Book 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Based on a short story by Annie Proulx, this film directed by Ang Lee follows the parallels of the lovers’ collapsing marriages and their undying passion for each other. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘BoJack Horseman’ and ‘Mysteries of the Abandoned’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

He was a high school janitor and onetime boxer who, in his late 40s, submitted a short story to the New Yorker that, against all odds, the magazine published. Thom Jones, onetime janitor who shone as a literary star in the 1990s, dies at 71 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Another book, a collection of short stories titled "The Thing Around Your Neck," recounts the experiences of Nigerian characters living at home and abroad. Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame 2012-01-26T11:21:09Z

It was an interesting short story that I thought contained many underlying meanings and themes.’” When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Some 20 children drew pictures of Chavez's life and penned short stories, under the watchful gaze of tutors and proud parents. Venezuelan children learn to read and write ... about Hugo Chavez 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

On its surface, the idea sounds like a good one: commission fiction writers to create short stories inspired by famous artworks. A Picture Is Worth … How Many Words? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Lydia Davis, a writer of sly short stories, is herself sly: “I never realised until the latest collection how often fish reappeared in my stories.” Reconsidering 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It's only a short story – so it won't keep him from his red boxes – and it perfectly captures what happens when inexorable, righteous bureaucracy encounters yielding flesh and blood. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Based on a short story by Sudanese novelist Hammour Ziyada, critics say it demonstrates that the country’s cultural scene is reawakening after decades of oppression. A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

In the short story “Kindness,” a young girl buys a small chick from the market. In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The new anthology “At the End of the Century” brings 17 of the Booker Prize-winning writer’s most haunting short stories to a new generation of readers. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

A successful writer puts down one of his short stories by calling it “amiable.” Three Sharply Observed Books Showcase the Enduring Appeal of Memoirs About Dealing With Disease 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The short story is set in a rundown nightclub during World War II and tells of a two-timing dancer who's married to a handsome sergeant and carrying on with a "pie-faced runt." Obscure James M. Cain story published 2012-07-19T14:14:08Z

The FX series, which begins its second season Thursday night at 10:30, is less an ongoing story than a collection of vignettes from one man's life, shaped like short stories or anecdotes. "Louie's" hilarious, poignant return 2011-06-23T11:24:00Z

Wang is now a prominent literary figure in China, and a prolific writer of fiction, both short stories and novels. Profile: Wang Anyi 2011-03-30T11:57:46Z

After the workshop in Oregon, Posner commissioned Eason to adapt a Charles Dickens short story for Two River, the New Jersey theater company he was running at the time. Director and playwright who met on an artistic blind date are great collaborators

This short story collection, which came out in April, is a book for grown-ups, by Man Booker International Prize- and MacArthur grant-winner Davis. Read to Your Baby, Say Doctors — But Which Books? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Washington’s subtle, dynamic and flexible short stories crack open a vibrant, polyglot side of Houston about which few outsiders are aware. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Yet, like a James Joyce short story in which the everyday and the eternal live cheek by jowl, “The Ferryman” seems to sprawl over an entire, divided country. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

It includes photography by Jack Spencer, poetry by the late Margaret Walker and a short story by Glenn Taylor. Oxford American celebrates its hard-won 25th anniversary 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

So when it was suggested that I write a short story to be included in the deluxe CD package of the new album it appeared to me the most natural consequence in the world. William Boyd: Why I love Keane 2012-06-14T20:29:00Z

The starting point for this latest show, for instance, combines Gogol's short story The Nose and the set design for a modernist opera. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Writing became a retreat and the young Riley was forever making up short stories. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

His first short story, “The Hades Business,” was published in a school magazine when he was 13 and was published commercially two years later. Terry Pratchett, author of ‘Discworld’ fantasy series, dies at 66 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

She followed that by writing a novel, some short stories, some criticism; The Partisan Review became a home for her work, as did The New Yorker. The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Keyes received the Hugo Award for his original short story and the Nebula Award for his novel, both in recognition for achievements in science fiction or fantasy. Daniel Keyes, author of the classic book ‘Flowers for Algernon,’ dies at 86

The author's reading adds extra resonance to his collection of funny, tender and devastating short stories. Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z

But his punchlines emerge from anecdotes filled with details about curious characters he’s met, tales that have the quirkiness and surprise of what you find in a sensitively observed short story. 5 Standup Specials to Stream for the Labor Day Weekend 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z

Kevin Fitzpatrick, president of the Dorothy Parker Society, said that the book elevated Mrs. Parker’s profile enough to persuade Penguin Classics to rerelease collections of her short stories and poems in the 1990s. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Rich, a screenwriter, novelist and former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” among other things, is the author of two novels and five previous volumes of short stories. A Toddler Detective, Pirate Parents and Other Witty Treats in Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The reader will also summon Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” to mind, and the reader is not entirely wrong to do so. In ‘Pew,’ a Mysterious Stranger Tests a Small Town’s Tolerance 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

His collections of short stories, essays and poems were translated into German, French, English, Japanese and Russian. José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican Author, Dies at 74 2014-01-28T04:40:46Z

Stranger was “going home” to the W for a late afternoon meeting with a producer and a director who are adapting one of my short stories for TV. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z

Neither “Wolf Hall” nor “Bring Up the Bodies” is the Hilary Mantel book most relevant to “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,” her new volume of short stories. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Told as a set of short stories from the point of view of 21 people, The Spinning Heart explores the struggle for work in austerity Ireland. Irish novelist wins first book award 2013-11-29T10:22:16Z

The award-winning Hlehel, author of a novel, a short story collection and a play, is one of 39 Arab writers selected by literary experts to participate in Beirut 39. Writer petitions the Israeli supreme court over travel ban 2010-03-26T15:04:00Z

While he wrote fiction, essays, journalism, travelogues, short stories and satire, he never published fiction for very young children, apart from his translation of a German fable. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The book is just a series of short stories, but, taken in the aggregate, I regard them as a modern “Ulysses.” The ‘Trainspotting’ junkies are back, but it’s more than drugs that are eating at them. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

It was Carver who said that “unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction,” for him, necessitated the short story form. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

This journey to the frozen north is brilliantly imagined, with all the hallucinatory visual conviction that made McEwan's early short stories so shocking. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z

Ms. Spencer, 92, a Mississippi native, is the author of nine novels and eight short story collections, including “Starting Over,” which was published earlier this year. ArtsBeat: Elizabeth Spencer Wins Rea Award 2014-04-21T16:12:13Z

Critics have compared Ms. Tokarczuk’s nonlinear novels and short stories, which are often punctuated by mysterious maps and diagrams, to the work of celebrated European authors like W.G. Olga Tokarczuk’s Book ‘Flights’ Is Taking Off 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Klam, the author of the short story collection “Sam the Cat,” brings a mordantly funny touch to existentially tragic circumstances. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

She wrote 31 books, including two short story collections, and worked 30 years at The Detroit Free Press. Author of 'The Cat Who' series dies at 97 in SC 2011-06-07T17:13:17Z

She had published some short stories and a novella, but it would be months before her first novel, “Eileen,” would earn her a living, a place on the Booker Prize shortlist, a name. Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

For his next film, he started with a short story by Joe Hill, which he layered with autobiographical material. How Real-Life and Fictional Horror Seeped Into ‘The Black Phone’ 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

Lyon, the author of two previous short story collections, has refused to take the decision to heart. Alexander the Great novel gets bum rap in Canada 2010-08-24T11:31:00Z

I was also a camper in those days and would take off camping in New Mexico in my station wagon with a couple of Bradbury books of short stories and "The Alienist". How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It proved controversial when it was published in a collection of 10 short stories in September. Mantel attacks Thatcher book critics 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

I have said often that short stories are utilitarian for me. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

His most recent short story collection, “Hanoi at Midnight,” documents the complex lives of the people here. Read Your Way Through Hanoi 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

While at Yale, he wrote the short story "Sadie," which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and he soon acquired an agent. Writer-environmentalist Peter Matthiessen dies 2014-04-06T01:17:22Z

This 20-hour film wraps up with a number of short stories on the history of basketball. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and ‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The students have to make notes on all sorts of things – observations, passing fancies, plot ideas, scribbled asides, as well as sketches and drafts of poems, short stories, perhaps bits of drama. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z

Edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, this collection of short stories features the works of a diverse, engaging group of writers, each crafting a version of djinn, or genie, folklore. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

A couple of years ago, I spent three months playing World of Warcraft – partly as research for a short story I was writing, mostly because I became addicted to it. Novels about the Internet can still be compelling 2013-01-19T23:00:00Z

A: I wrote quite a few short stories and various things before I really sat myself down and became a novelist. Alexander McCall Smith published his first hit novel at 50 and hasn’t stopped. How does he do it? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

“He brought into town this really great short story, ‘Uncle Bill’s Barrel,’ ” she said. Bernie Wrightson, Artist and a Creator of Swamp Thing, Dies at 68 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

This volume collects the best of his richly imagined and influential short stories. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Gogol’s “Dead Souls” had escaped me — or, rather, I’d started and stopped reading several times, perhaps unable to reconcile the style with that of beloved short stories, like “The Nose.” How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

“I went back and showed my award to Mrs. Lung,” recalled Kochai — who went on to become a published author, writing two books, as well as several essays and short stories. How an author got to thank the teacher who taught him English in 2nd grade 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

More than two dozen of these featured his best-known hero, the unassuming Indian policeman Inspector Ganesh Ghote, who also appeared in short stories, and television and film adaptations of Keating's books. HRF Keating obituary 2011-03-28T17:04:57Z

An outsider — Jewish, the child of foreign parents, female — she was educated by a tutor, read and wrote compulsively and published her first short story at the age of fifteen. Whiskey, potato chips and a Nobel prize: Nadine Gordimer, my friend 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In each "Horrid Henry" book, Simon offers her readers four short stories, each of them featuring wildly funny line drawings by Tony Ross. 'Horrid Henry' author drawn to impish behavior 2011-08-27T05:20:29Z

I wanted something by the Nobel Prize winner and Kolkata native Rabindranath Tagore, and after asking around, I found a book of his short stories at a shop called Bani Library for just 95 rupees. In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is more like a book of short stories than a novel. Roger Ebert: His Dissenting Opinions 2013-04-05T00:06:17Z

"In keeping himself isolated, it excited people," said Tom Paine, a Salinger fan and the author of a collection of short stories and the novel The Pearl of Kuwait. JD Salinger's secret life exposed in new documentary 2013-05-18T12:04:10Z

In 1984 she translated a collection of his short stories under the title “Palestine’s Children.” Barbara Harlow, Scholar on Perils of Resistance Writing, Dies at 68 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Rice first explored the idea of a reporter interviewing a vampire with a short story called "Interview with the Vampire," which she revised several times. 11 facts about Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The only parallels that came to mind were a David Garnett short story, Lady Into Fox, and the great Janáček opera The Cunning Little Vixen. Y for Young Writers 2012-05-29T12:06:50Z

As productive as he was profligate, Simenon wrote at least 200 novels, about 80 of them featuring the gruff, wily Inspector Jules Maigret, and a similar number of short stories. Review: Sex and Death, French-style, in The Blue Room 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The prize is funded by Cork City Council and was established by the Munster Literature Centre in memory of renowned short story writer Frank O'Connor. Nathan Englander wins 2012 Frank O'Connor short story award 2012-07-09T08:00:02Z

New Zealand writer Craig Cliff won the Commonwealth Best First Book prize for his short story collection "A Man Melting." Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Prize book award 2011-05-21T14:46:04Z

Le Guin was the author of 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, 13 books for children, many short stories as well as literary criticism, according to her website. U.S. author Ursula K. Le Guin dies at 88: family 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Unterweger became a cause celebre of the Austrian literary scene in the mid-1980s as the author of short stories, poems, plays, and an autobiography, later made into a film. Michael Fassbender to play Austrian serial killer 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

I understood the impulse; as a teenager, I wrote short stories based on a relatively obscure novel that had managed to inspire a film and a short-lived television show. It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

“I had an apparently inexhaustible urge to express an unlimited supply of short story ideas. No writing has ever come more easily to me.” The Eavesdropper’s Secret: On John O’Hara 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Twenty-one years after her next book was supposed to be published, Katherine Dunn, “Geek Love” author, publishes it in The Paris Review as a short story. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-07-07T18:36:00Z

These are stories written by women, very different but also women just kind of stepping up and owning the short story form this year, and making this gigantic impact in the literary world. A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

He published three volumes of poems during his drinking years, and wrote almost 40 short stories, among them "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

Were this an Edna O’Brien production, the action would mostly likely fit into a 20-page short story. ‘Milkman’ Slogs Through Political and Cultural Tensions in Northern Ireland 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Yet Ozick was not far off, in her short story “Rosa,” when she wrote: “The whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life.” A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

As he did with Ivansxtc, Rose transposes a Tolstoy short story to modern day America, though this is a conspicuously lower-key affair. This week's new films 2012-12-22T00:05:00Z

I mooched around and took some photographs – ideas for a short story that ended here in Bexhill were beginning to form, almost unbidden. William Boyd: Why I love Keane 2012-06-14T20:29:00Z

Jen’s collection of short stories about the ambitions and compromises of immigrants and their children. Looking at Gish Jen and the Conglomeration of Others 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Kennedy’s first collection of short stories, “The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac,” was published last year by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Ireland, to significant acclaim. Louise Kennedy’s Debut Novel Taps into Her Childhood Amid The Troubles 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Now a new book has arrived, “Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary,” a grab bag of letters, diary entries, short stories, plays and screenplays. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The story's first iteration was as a short story Greenberg wrote in middle school, which he turned into 50 pages of a script while attending NYU film school. Kristen Bell cast in indie ballet comedy 2010-08-16T04:37:00Z

In the mid-1970s, few had heard of Mr. King, a teacher who had mainly published short stories in men’s magazines. ‘Carrie’ Is Back. Like a Bloody Hand From the Grave. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

As well as the low-budget, digital treatment, what links these three films is that they all star Huston, and are based on Tolstoy short stories. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z

“Sea of Glass” fits that categorization, faintly calling to mind Saki’s ironic short stories, Ivy Compton-Burnett’s campy tragi-comedies and the early satirical fiction of Evelyn Waugh. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

She responded with a short story about a teenage girl who is drawn to activism after a white officer shoots her childhood best friend. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Jointly authored short story or essay collections with more than three contributors are not eligible.• Enter the Guardian first book award 2013 2013-04-16T07:00:00Z

James Patterson may publish piles of bestsellers annually, but only one thing by him is available through Kindle Unlimited -- a collection of four very short stories published as a Kindle Edition, 31 pages total. It's here: Amazon's e-book subscription service, Kindle Unlimited 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The constant reworking of sentence and narrative through writing short stories was my version of rubbing two sticks together. A writer's solitude vs. AWP: Viet Thanh Nguyen on what we share with others 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

It's one of those short stories that affects me deeply – and differently – every time I read it. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

The short story is almost like a really great first act. Total Recall Director Talks Remakes, Relevance and Real-Life Paranoia 2012-08-02T12:00:34Z

One thing my friend Andrew said that I’ve quoted many times is that scripted dramas on TV tend to fall into one of two categories: They are novelistic, or they are like short stories. Why we loved the men and women of “Mad Men”: “They’re the only characters in television history who are 100 percent consistent in their behavior” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

He left his Ph.D. research, on politics and the short story, to write full time. Andrés Neuman’s New Novel Is ‘Talking to Ourselves’ 2014-04-16T20:50:36Z

Readers learn what happens next through the eyes of four women whose individual chapters read like fully developed short stories. Home Is Where Her Story Was. Leaving Helped Her Find It. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Surrealist chapters like these could exist as stand-alone short stories of the sort that Bertino has previously written. Life Advice From a Dead Grandmother Who’s Returned as a Bird 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

He said he was “floored” when a friend told him about the woman’s short story. Morgan Spurlock: ‘I Am Part of the Problem’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The Booker Prize winner’s short stories explore the nature of modern life. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

In the short story, they actually never go to Mars. Total Recall Director Talks Remakes, Relevance and Real-Life Paranoia 2012-08-02T12:00:34Z

"I had been asked to write a short story and for some reason I loved this idea," she says. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

Riggan is not only star, but playwright, adapting from one of Raymond Carver's indelible short stories, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," and director. 'Birdman' soars feathered and unfettered 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

She has since gone on to write eight novels and two short story collections, which have made her a literary celebrity in her native country. Olga Tokarczuk’s Book ‘Flights’ Is Taking Off 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died at age 98. 'Fiddler on the Roof' writer Stein, 98, dies in NY 2010-10-26T00:51:00Z

Yet still she wrote short stories in between the domestic duties. Eva Ibbotson: Ogres, aunts and happy endings 2010-10-06T11:57:00Z

He’s already got a powerful work ethic, and begins to stay up all night to write short stories. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Tse, a winner of the Hong Kong Book Prize for her short stories, has said that she studied journalism but rebelled against a writing style with “too many assumptions about reality.” ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

As part of the commemoration, the museum staged a reading of “The Abyss,” the 1965 short story that inspired the film. Museums With Ideas, Goals and Sometimes Art. But Walls? No. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Miller's archive includes drafts of several of his plays, as well as short stories, screenplays, letters and journals, the university said in a news release. Arthur Miller's archive is going to the University of Texas 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Val McDermid takes the Band classic “Long Black Veil,” which is pretty much a short story already, for a vivid ride with a clever twist to boot. Partners in crime: Lawbreakers and music, in a new short-story collection 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The film is based on a short story by Danish author Karen Blixen, whose memoirof Out of Africa was famously adapted for the cinema in 1985. Babette's Feast – review 2012-12-13T22:40:01Z

Ms. Munro, an Ontario native who is considered a master of the short story, won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009. Arts, Briefly: Alice Munro Says She Is Retiring 2013-06-20T22:23:45Z

Their proliferation throughout popular culture takes nothing away from the magic of Karen Russell’s short story collection “Vampires in the Lemon Grove.” A Fantastic, Fantastical Book for the New, Cool Woman in My Life 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

A new collection of short stories by the author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” includes eight selections that were recently discovered in archives and periodicals. 10 Books to Watch For in January 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Here’s a phrase you don’t hear very often: last week, a short story went viral. JK Rowling has defended Johnny Depp's casting in Fantastic Beasts. Is it time we moved on? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

People living on the fringes — loners and schemers — populate these brilliant and compulsively readable short stories. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

A friend of mine gave me a book of the best European short stories of 2009. Slap author Christos Tsiolkas takes swipe at 'dry' European fiction 2010-08-15T17:58:00Z

Starting in 1916, these creations were featured in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories by Don Marquis for his weekly column in The New York Evening Sun. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the compactness of the short story involves a radical dramatic unity, with the events of a single day or evening revealing all we will ever know of a character's life. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

I like the Russians, the Chekhov short stories, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Moreover, the collection bears the imprint of Crippen & Landru, our premier publisher of short stories by classic and contemporary crime writers. Review | One critic’s summer reading list: From a scandalous memoir to obscure literary journalism 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The best representation of a movie theatre as a setting for epiphanies is Delmore Schwartz’s short story “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.” The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Karate Chop,” a collection of her short stories, was written in the broad declarative language of newspaper headlines. A Darkly Comic Novel Stares Down a Life of Solitude 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

He also titled a short story based in Madrid “The Capital of the World.” Footsteps: Blood, Sand, Sherry: Hemingway?s Madrid 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z

I was in graduate school in Orange County, Calif., and had been writing short stories happily, but the idea of Page 1 out of 300 struck terror in me. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Do you prefer writing novels or short stories? Sam Lipsyte interviews himself 2013-04-06T21:00:00Z

Bridget O'Connor, who has died aged 49 of cancer, was the author of the prizewinning play The Flags, as well as collections of short stories, and several plays, for both radio and theatre. Bridget O'Connor obituary 2010-10-18T17:36:00Z

Reading Edna O’Brien’s short stories, there’s nearly always a fire blazing in the background. Jennifer Egan Updates the Old-Fashioned Page-Turner in ‘Manhattan Beach’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Just as the town of Sleepy Hollow was a magical setting for Washington Irving’s classic short story, the ballet inspired by that tale boasts enchantments of its own. Enchanting ‘Sleepy Hollow’ awakens the best of the Washington Ballet 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

There are some distinguished precedents for Tessa Hadley's Clever Girl, a novel about a woman's life told in 10 chapters, three of which were published as short stories in the New Yorker. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-01T11:00:02Z

Finally, Cristina Henríquez imagines the experiences of a detained immigrant mother separated from her son in a short story, “Everything Is Far From Here.” Sunday Reading: Families at the Border 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Maeve Brennan was one of the Dublin leavers: a writer of short stories and a journalist, the daughter of a Republican firebrand. Dublin theatre festival 2012: The Boys of Foley Street; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Talk of the Town – review 2012-10-06T23:08:02Z

That rationale might work for a short story, but it can’t support this book. Books of The Times: A Very Big Man and the Brother Who Resents Him 2011-07-31T21:15:13Z

She promised herself that if even one short story sold, she’d give herself a crack at a novel. Susan Coll continues to skewer life in D.C.’s suburbs in her new book ‘The Stager’

Ms. Haywood, after working on the business side of Iman Cosmetics for seven years, has begun a writing career that includes short stories and her blog, thedailydelusion.com. Iman, Former Model, to Receive Award 2010-06-05T02:21:00Z

Delius's opera, adapted from a short story by the Swiss novelist Gottfried Keller, is saturated with Wagnerian influence – it even ends with a Love-Death. A Village Romeo and Juliet/L'Arlesiana – review 2012-10-28T18:15:11Z

But though the concept of a mysterious casino feels credible within the context of a short story, as the basis for a novel it feels somewhat overstretched. If This Is Home by Stuart Evers – review 2012-07-27T21:45:11Z

A collection of short stories, entitled The Likes of Us, is due to be published next year. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z

You don’t see many writers who publish only short stories, and novellas are even rarer. Short Stories Need a Defender. She’s Ready. 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z

This long short story has taken us through the agonies of successive medical consultations and treatments, but also cuts events short. Guardian book club: Lorrie Moore's Collected Stories 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Which makes the bigger impact, Chekhov’s short story “Grief,” a scant three pages, or “The Brothers Karamazov”? Anyone can construct a list along these lines. Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z

Each chapter has the feel of a short story, focusing on a different Rovaniemi child. New Books by Claire Vaye Watkins, Marie NDiaye and More 2012-08-29T21:12:46Z

Her first collections of short stories were set in London and Dublin and featured sharp and poignant observations of characters of those cities. Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish writer, dies aged 72 2012-07-30T23:18:52Z

This year's short story collections are a vital expansion of the English-language canon, expanding discussions of immigration, climate change, and gun control. In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

These words are spoken by a dying novelist to a young admirer in Henry James’s 1893 short story “The Middle Years.” Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z

What was it like to return to the short story? This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

“I’m a short story writer who writes novels when he can’t get them into short stories,” he once said. William Trevor, Writer Who Evoked the Struggles of Ordinary Life, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

In his novels and short stories, he addressed the tricks of memory and the quirks of reality. From the sci-fi mind of author Philip K. Dick to a movie screen 2011-03-05T00:27:18Z

In a short story, he wrote: “Lord Ronald said nothing. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I won’t humor you anymore 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

The ghosts are a motley lot, reminiscent of the dispossessed and disenfranchised characters in Saunders’s short stories. Review: ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ Shows a President Haunted by Grief 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

He published his first short story collection in 1998 and was instantly embraced by critics. Michel Faber Plans to Stop Writing Novels 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

As Robert Morace notes, it "revived interest in the short story on the part of publishers and readers, making it both commercially more viable and critically more respectable". A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z

What initially looks like a collection of loosely linked short stories reveals itself to be an expertly constructed house of mirrors. A Novel Follows Intersecting Lives on London’s Margins 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Dr. Lennox Honychurch has written wonderful books about DA, and a book called Rain on a Tin Roof is a collection of short stories by Gabriel Christian that I feel would ring true with you. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Readers who appreciated the book point to the emotional power of its three codas: short stories spun off the original narrative and told from the point of view of this novel’s own minor characters. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z

Ironically, Martin began his career as a science fiction writer in the 1970s by writing short stories. Here's How George R. R. Martin Would Improve HBO's Game of Thrones 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

That range is also on display in Walter’s short stories. ‘We Live in Water’: virtuoso stories by Jess Walter 2013-02-13T22:30:09Z

The Grownup” won the 2015 Edgar Award for best short story from the Mystery Writers of America and debuts as a stand-alone book in hardcover today. Gillian Flynn isn’t writing “the next ‘Gone Girl'”: “I feel like I need a break from their voices in my head” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The title is a fudge of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Six Napoleons, a short story that featured plaster busts of the famous emperor. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

But a short film is a fragile creation: Every frame must advance the plot, just like every word in a short story. 'Wild Tales' weighed down by clunky filmmaking 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Dark Eden is only Beckett's second novel, but the British author is no stranger to awards: in 2009 he beat Anne Enright and Ali Smith to win the Edge Hill short story prize. Chris Beckett wins Arthur C Clarke award for Dark Eden 2013-05-01T20:01:01Z

And there are two aggressively imaginative short story collections that resist any labels whatsoever. ‘Norwegian by Night,’ by Derek B. Miller, and More 2013-05-29T20:35:37Z

The new exhibition records the process by which the occupant of 221B Baker Street became a modern-day myth, at times straying far from what Conan Doyle wrote in 56 short stories and four novels. The changing face of Sherlock Holmes 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Last year Nors published a chilling short story, inspired by an article she had read about a Danish man who had murdered his wife. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Apple cake is food for a short story. This Week in Fiction: Allegra Goodman 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The first is a memoir of sorts, told in short stories; the second is a book of fairy tales. ‘Guyville’ at 25: Liz Phair’s career-defining album still defines her. For better or worse. 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

In 1992 he published “Jesus’ Son,” a collection of 11 short stories about petty crimes and murder across a desperate American landscape. Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Once in a while an AMC series gives you an episode that could function as a stand-alone, like a little short story. The extraordinary rise of AMC 2010-11-23T17:55:00Z

Her latest work, “Wonder-What-Time-It-Is,” is based on “The Devil in the Belfry,” a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. A Dutch Artist Travels Through Time and Its Colonial Past 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

To get himself started, he decided, as he put it, to "stitch together" two short stories by that master short story-writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z

How appropriate, then, that they all hinge upon an old copy of Joyce’s masterly collection of 15 short stories. Honoring James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners,’ Published 100 Years Ago 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

But the concept goes back even further: Ray Bradbury described a programmed smart home that performs household tasks in “There Will Come Soft Rains,” a short story published in 1950. In today’s homes, consumers are willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The verbosity of the lyrics, along with the minimalism of the music, makes the experience of listening to the record approximate to digesting a collection of short stories. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

I told her my short story was for school, which was true enough. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

In her novels and short stories, Gaitskill has often been that somebody. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Author of lasting novels and short stories, a vigorous, enriching presence. Reaction to death of Mexican author Carlos Fuentes 2012-05-15T22:03:08Z

All are illumined by a searching intelligence and a willingness to test the boundaries of the short story form. In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Perrotta has, in effect, been writing disaster fiction for twenty-five years—in plainspoken, often funny short stories about coming of age in the suburbs, and in novels like “Election,” “Joe College,” and “Little Children.” The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

If the original short story was part of the tradition of adventure fiction so prevalent in the era, Zaroff’s philosophy smacks of Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” concept, or at least a misinterpretation of it. When Humans Are the Prey: A Plot Made for Every Era 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

It's a poignant episode, a dream-like short story that ends with CK eating dinner with a random Chinese family – profoundly happy despite, or perhaps because of, the deep language and wealth divide. Louie: a comic look at the messy life of a divorced dad – box set review 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Binchy, author of "Circle of Friends" and "Tara Road," wrote 16 novels, four collections of short stories, a play and a novella. Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72 2012-07-31T11:56:13Z

In connection with the deal, the network has also acquired the rights to adapt the novels and short stories of Nobel Prize winning Southern author William Faulkner. HBO Signs David Milch and His New Partner, William Faulkner 2011-11-30T19:55:19Z

Mr. Trevor’s England in many ways resembles that of V. S. Pritchett, his only real rival as a master of the British short story. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

I have a lot of short stories – I love the short story. George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate 2011-04-13T20:30:00Z

In Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” women evaporate, are haunted after gastric surgery, literally lose their heads and chart an apocalyptic pandemic through their sexual encounters. Carmen Maria Machado's 'Her Body and Other Parties' reclaims the female body in subversive, joyful ways 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The final short story in this modest collection is “Late Lunch,” which is also the longest sequence of the film. ‘Love Is Love Is Love’ Review: Aging Too Gracefully 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In a career that covers more than three decades, she has written 14 novels, as well as poetry, children’s books, short stories and nonfiction. Louise Erdrich Wins Library of Congress Award 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

She also worked as a translator of Italian literature, including her husband’s short stories, which were published in English in The New Yorker. Helen Barolini, Chronicler of Italian American Women, Dies at 97 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

This is the setting for many of PG Wodehouse's finest plots, both in short stories and novels. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

His first collection of short stories, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947. Ray Bradbury, writer who captivated a generation of sci-fi fans, dies at 91 2012-06-06T15:28:00Z

But like a half-hour of Louie, it played as much like a short story–a short film–as an episode of a TV series. Girls Watch: Last Sexit to Brooklyn 2013-02-11T13:00:26Z

Fans of his short stories and autobiographical writings will hear echoes of the playwright’s life all across this familiarly bleak landscape. ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins GilmanGilman's short story gives us the journal entries of a narrator confined, after the birth of her child, to a bedroom whose yellow wallpaper begins to obsess her. John Mullan's 10 of the best 2012-02-10T22:55:07Z

With mind-boggling audacity, he decided that the best cover for his spying would be that he was writing a series of short stories about spies. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z

Her work — 16 novels, as well as plays and short stories — is often as peripatetic, as global, as her own life. 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Five runners up in each category will win copies of Morris's new short story collection, Pizza Cake. Enter our Morris Gleitzman short story writing competition 2012-05-30T13:22:58Z

New Zealand is, as similar billionaires know, in the middle of nowhere — on the part of a world map where “reverse” is on a gear shift, as John Updike wrote in a 1983 short story. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

“Romance at short notice was her specialty,” Saki wrote of the heroine in his short story “The Open Window”; Marian, too, has discovered the usefulness of quick improvisation. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

“He worked prodigiously at Cornell. While there, he wrote parts of ‘Lolita,’ ‘Pnin’ and ‘Speak, Memory,’ short stories, poetry, and translations of his own works and others’. ‘Nabokov in America’ looks at how U.S. shaped novelist 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It's generally true that a piece of great literature cannot be made into a great film and Joyce's "The Dead" is as great a short story as they come. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The archive of the 74-year-old Massachusetts native includes notebooks, autograph drafts, and corrected typescript drafts for most of Theroux’s 51 books, along with diaries, short stories, plays, lectures, essays, and correspondence from other noted writers. What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

He's published 44 novels and over 100 short stories on a multitude of sci-fi themes dealing with everything from space exploration and time travel to alternate history, telepathy and the effects of psychoactive substances. "Blade Runner" and the lesson Roy Batty’s Replicant rebellion has to teach us 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

I decided to choose the title of one of their songs, The Sovereign Light Cafe, as the title for my short story and simply start from there. William Boyd: Why I love Keane 2012-06-14T20:29:00Z

This essay is about attraction and betrayal, and has the sinister propulsion of a Mary Gaitskill short story. A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Her work — including “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?,” a collection of short stories published for the first time in 2016 — has been rediscovered and embraced in recent years. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Consisting of 13 interconnected short stories set in the fictional small town of Crosby, Maine, "Olive Kitteridge" spans about 25 years and features older, unglamorous characters of a breed rarely seen on television. Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

For some accomplished novelists, short stories are mere doodles, variations on themes better addressed at length. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The short story was originally published in The Guardian of London in April. Gillian Flynn's Comic-Book Story 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

When it comes to all of the above, James McBride takes a page from Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” James McBride Doesn’t Read Reviews. Here’s Why. 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Another airport. Another country. Another hotel,” a character sums up in her short story collection “Black Vodka.” In Deborah Levy’s Latest, a Student of History Learns to Confront His Own 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Throw away everything you think you know about short stories and read Kelly Link: her stories get bigger each time you read them. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z

They included one based on a "rather terrifying" short story by Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, in which the central character seeks redemption as he stares into the void of death. Obituary: Sir John Tavener 2013-11-12T17:29:21Z

Ms. Enright has written five novels, a string of short stories and a book of essays. Anne Enright Is Ireland's First Fiction Laureate 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

In 1989, his short story collection, Dusk and Other Stories, won the PEN/Faulkner award; meanwhile, both A Sport and a Pastime and Light Years were republished. James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature 2013-05-11T13:30:01Z

The run of programmes features short stories by Bristol-based writers, the first of which – Rip Off by Rachel Bentham – concerns a reasonably famous urban myth from the area. Radio catchup: Band break-ups, high-kicking chorus girls and tales from Bristol 2010-04-29T15:54:00Z

Yet it’s also impossible to resist a movie that uses “Legally Blonde” as a verb and in which two men adorably bond over Alice Munro short stories. ‘Fire Island’ Review: Oh, the Summer Nights 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Authors of crime fiction, children's novelists, short story, poetry or prose writers are all encouraged to apply. Last call for 2013's new writing talent in the north 2013-01-25T07:00:00Z

When I told friends I was heading to Los Angeles to see the city by subway, one joked that it would be “a very short story.” L.A. by Subway 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

I chased thieves and offered advice to customers, wrote short stories and poems while working bag check or sitting at the information desk. What Shakespeare & Co. taught me about being a writer 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he would let me use his electric typewriter to write plays or short stories or whatever I wanted. Suzanne Vega Is Tidying Her Home and Tending Her Soul (in Sensible Jackets) 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Joy and Nolan first met fifteen years ago, at the première of “Memento,” the basis of which was provided by a short story that Nolan had written and published in Esquire when he was twenty-four. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Inside was Hemingway’s first known short story, about a fictional trip to Ireland written when he was 10 years old. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

In the short stories of the 1930s and after, romantic subplots are usually jettisoned for straightforward tales of intrigue and derring-do. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Second world war propaganda film, based on a Graham Greene short story, dealing with German paratroopers who invade a British village. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-07-22T23:07:08Z

Novels require space and planning, he said, but short stories arrive in a hurry. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Comma recently published a collection of short stories by the award-winning writer David Constantine. Chapbooks: ancient form of publishing enjoying renaissance 500 years on 2011-03-04T11:44:00Z

When she sells her first short story to a new literary magazine, she also falls in love with Howard Ritchie, the magazine’s charismatic, married, womanizing editor. A Tangy Sendup of Literary-World Dalliances 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

In October, Random House will publish a collection of lost short stories that Mr. Capote wrote when he was a teenager and young man. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

April 18: Joyce Carol Oates , author of 50 novels, dozens of short stories, poetry, drama, essays and criticism, and a hero in the literary community for her indefatigable support of writers and writing. Seattle Arts & Lectures brings Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Kidder, Jonathan Franzen and more to the NW 2010-06-11T20:34:00Z

He published a score of books: novels, short stories, poetry, nonfiction and an autobiography. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

He wrote his first draft of the script, based on a short story by the Danish-born writer Isak Dinesen, in 1973. Gabriel Axel, Director of ‘Babette’s Feast,’ Dies at 95 2014-02-12T17:17:48Z

Note that this is the second in a series of seven novels, one short story collection and five picture books. Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson - review 2013-04-15T14:00:00Z

In a 1993 book titled “First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors,” Stephen King revealed the first fiction he wrote at age 9, a short story called “Jhonathan and the Witches.” George R.R. Martin's first published work was a 'Fantastic Four' fan letter 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

"It just occurs to me that it was a completely made-up version of a short story." The Carpetbagger: 'Moonrise Kingdom's' Magical, Nerve-Wracking Moment 2012-12-20T17:11:58Z

They’re descended from such sturdy exemplars of dramatic irony as Robert Browning’s narrative poems and Ring Lardner’s first-person short stories, in which incriminating confessions seem to emerge by accident. It Takes One: How the Monologue Speaks Loudest in Lockdown 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

As its title suggests, it’s a book that’s interested in Fitzgerald’s development and his evolution, how he transitions from a younger writer of satire and short stories into the artist who produced Gatsby. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

Such ideological tensions are not, however, outwardly apparent in his fantastical short stories, “Ten Nights’ Dreams.” Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

His earlier plays, including his 2012 debut, “Slowgirl,” reflect the qualities — patience with plot, modesty with character — that make him a fine short story writer. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Next to it stands a frightening bedlike structure inspired by the implement of torture central to Kafka’s 1919 short story “In the Penal Colony.” Art Review: ‘Ghosts in the Machines’ at the New Museum 2012-07-19T21:45:40Z

The winner of the inaugural Costa short story award, which is voted for by the public, will also be announced at the ceremony. Costa Book Awards 2012 announced 2012-11-20T23:07:56Z

In an era before television held sway, the last heyday of the magazine short story, Bradbury flourished. Ray Bradbury obituary 2012-06-06T17:29:58Z

Last month it published Mr. Hanks’s short story “Alan Bean Plus Four,” about four friends who orbit the moon in a homemade space ship. Type(writer) Casting: A Book of Short Stories From Tom Hanks 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

In 1962, the academy nominated sublime wit Dorothy Parker for reading an album of "her own short stories, verse and a book review" for cult jazz label Verve. A Grammy for James Franco? Weird tales from the spoken word category 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

I first encountered the work of the Irish writer William Trevor, who died this week at the age of eighty-eight, in one of his masterwork short stories, “The News from Ireland.” William Trevor’s Quiet Explosions 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Another female writer whose work I admire is Le Minh Khue, whose short story collection “The Stars, The Earth, The River” is mainly set in Hanoi’s working-class neighborhoods and depicts a grittier city. Read Your Way Through Hanoi 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

A short story collection about women who are put through various hardships. Washington Post bestsellers: September 10, 2017 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Amal El-Mohtar, the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist, won the Nebula, Locus and Hugo awards for her short story “Seasons of Glass and Iron.” Ghosts, Robots and Monsters: A Roundup of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The award-winning author shares his approach to fiction by analyzing the short stories of four Russian writers. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

In the coming days, months, years, I would wonder if that short story was any good at all. Pseudonym: On vision loss and hiding in plain sight from my high school classmates 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

The short story winner will not be eligible for the book of the year prize, won this year by Andrew Miller for his novel Pure. Costa's new short story award to be judged anonymously 2012-07-17T08:26:04Z

It's the former's gently lyrical tales that are perhaps the best comparison, as Beagle's prose in these collected short stories enchants the reader. Sleight of Hand by Peter S Beagle ? review 2011-04-08T23:06:07Z

Astute fans might notice some thematic echoes from Mr. Murakami’s short story “On Seeing the 100 Percent Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning.” The Anime Master of Missed Connections Makes Strong Contact in Japan 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Like a great Richard Ford or F Scott Fitzgerald short story, its overwhelming humanity ensures this it leaves traces in the memory long after it ends. Lost in Translation: No 17 2010-10-16T10:38:00Z

This is a short-order short story collection, a series of skits cooked up for the here and now. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The most memorable chapters in “Hello Goodbye Hello” read like old-fashioned short stories. Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z

Only years later did I read her 1963 short story “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Her first, a short story called “A Watcher of the Dead,” was published in 1951. Nadine Gordimer in The New Yorker 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

This year Spanish is the chosen language and entrants will be asked to translate a short story by the Argentinian writer Matías Néspolo. We don't deserve to be lost in translation 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

It’s told in nine chapters that can be read individually, as if they were short stories. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

I might go back to writing short stories. George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

In the summer of 1941, Salinger began exchanging letters with Marjorie Sheard, a Toronto woman about his age, who had been reading his earliest short stories in publications like Esquire and Collier’s. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z

The book started life as a short story, but soon took on a life of its own. Ian Rankin embarrassed by 'purple prose' of first book 2010-08-16T10:39:00Z

Slightly more than half of the winning adapted screenplays in Oscar’s history have been based on novels; the remainder are, in descending order, from plays, nonfiction works, short stories and teleplays. A brief history of screenwriting and the Oscars 2014-02-26T22:03:43Z

After 30 years away from the short story, it is good to have her back, cleareyed and fearless as ever, whispering difficult truths and ambiguities that a less assured writer would feel compelled to shout. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

In honor of the original short story, Ibrahimova wrote the film’s dialogue in Russian, which is spoken by some in Azerbaijan. A poignant tour of the Azerbaijani capital’s Old City — in 17 minutes 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

She has also written an opera libretto with Sally Beamish for Scottish Opera, as well as poetry, short stories and novels. Janice Galloway 'anti-memoir' is named Scottish book of the year 2012-08-18T08:39:25Z

The probing mind that animates her novels, short stories and essays is obsessed with the viability of the human enterprise. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

Somebody once described the form of the short story as “a thing and another thing.” This Week in Fiction: Kevin Canty 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Joseph O'Connor's first short story collection in 21 years, is, the author notes, "a response" to Joyce's story "A Little Cloud". Where Have You Been? by Joseph O'Connor – review 2012-10-05T21:55:03Z

This description is – almost – already a short story. Dear Life by Alice Munro – review 2012-11-08T08:01:01Z

Olympia writer Lucia Perillo is on the shortlist for a PEN literary award for her book of short stories, “Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain.” Book news: Timothy Egan, Maria Semple, U Book Store 2013-07-26T21:32:12Z

"We started to realize at the end of each episode that we had a short story about a character," said Parkes, who has written on a number of episodes. NBC risks parental blowback with 'The Slap' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig star in an updated film adaptation of James Thurber’s short story. it opened Wednesday at several theaters. Wildlife, and major motion pictures | Weekend Preview 2013-12-24T22:33:57Z

People turned to literary magazines, stuffed with topical short stories, because newspapers and television broadcast only government propaganda. Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers 2013-02-05T13:08:12Z

For years she kept a notebook to record her ideas, marking each one with a letter indicating whether it was suited to a movie, novel, performance piece or short story. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

I went on to read his short story collection, The Burn, and was excited to discover Lassies was not a one-off, not Kelman merely "slumming it". Taking another look at James Kelman 2010-09-21T08:34:00Z

It started as a series of short stories her mum and grandmother told her. Why we are watching: Kerry Hudson 2012-06-23T23:05:17Z

In her short story, Ennis is defined by his inarticulate ways: he mostly speaks in short, stunted phrases. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z

But when he was not offered a long-term contract after eight years there, he left and gave himself a goal: to publish a short story by his 40th birthday. Alan Cheuse, Author and NPR Book Critic, Dies at 75 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

In this case, I chose a short story entitled “A Seminal Release” by a very sick and beautiful individual who shall remain unnamed. What I learned from teaching a sex-writing class 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Yet if my friends, acquaintances and assorted others I speak to are at all representative, the short story is, like fiction in translation, a minority interest. Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z

Crews, author of 17 novels and numerous short stories, taught graduate and undergraduate fiction writing workshops at the University of Florida from 1968 until his retirement in 1997. Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76 2012-03-29T20:01:09Z

Miranker’s enthusiasm for Holmes and Conan Doyle, reflected in the exhibition, ranges from pages from “The Hound of the Baskervilles” to manuscripts of four short stories to handwritten letters from Conan Doyle. A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The vignettes are pithy and pointed, like short stories or parables, but filmed with a relaxed naturalism. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In addition, he wrote short stories, plays and monographs of artists. B. H. Friedman, a Novelist, Art Critic and Pollock Biographer, Is Dead at 84 2011-01-10T05:26:28Z