This Time, That Place is the latest short story collection from Clark Blaise. The collection brings together 24 stories written over the course of Blaise's career, taking readers to Montreal, Florida, ...

When Joyce Carol Oates writes a 25-word story, you know ‘hint’ fiction has arrived At some point, if you work them right, words eventually become stories. Fragments and sentences turn into paragraphs, ...

Ziegler, a professor of writing at Columbia University, collects hundreds of short pieces, all under 1,250 words, in this handy anthology of Western writing. Ziegler's introduction draws attention to ...

Last week, Stuart Dybek, one of America’s living masters of the short story, published two new, and very different collections. The nine pieces in Paper Lantern: Love Stories are fairly ...

Talk about obsession: Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, "Signs and Symbols" (Continuum) is a massive exploration of the master's (possibly) most masterful short story, "Signs and ...

Joey "Deejo" DeCampo, one of the heroes of Stuart Dybek’s comic short story "Blight," about coming of age on Chicago’s South Side "in the years between Korea and Vietnam," wants to write the great ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In the introduction to his quirky book, “Antique Densities: Modern Parables ...

"That he had such fun writing these pieces for a mass newspaper publication (when that quaint idea still held water) must question the received-wisdom idea of repression and crozier swinging, ...

Lynn C. Miller, Hilda Raz, Laura Furman and Kent Winchester are among eight contributors who will read from their work in “ABQ inPrint 8” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at Albuquerque Photographers ...

A new volume remembers "experimental" author B S Johnson as far more than a novelist. By Juliet Jacques B S Johnson bristled at being called “experimental”. In his introduction to Aren’t You Rather ...