For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

“We have professors of poetry and professors of ethnicized literature, but no professors of the short story,” Michael J. Collins said to a Stanford crowd on Tuesday. He joked that it may be because it ...

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of short stories: the quiet, profound, slice-of-life short stories that evoke a sense of bittersweet longing and muted despair... and the short stories that get ...

Beloved author Shirley Jackson would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec. 14, had she lived to see it. In honor of this auspicious occasion, I've got 10 essential Shirley Jackson short stories ...

Meet the judges: (L-R) Jan Carson, Tristan Rosenstock and Aingeala Flannery RTÉ is inviting entries to one of Ireland's longest established and most significant literary prizes, the RTÉ Short Story ...

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