THE initial difficulty in discussing the Short Story is that old danger of taking one’s subject either too seriously or else not seriously enough. If one could but hit upon the proper key, at the ...
Queen of the contemporary short story Lorrie Moore once said, "a short story is a photograph; a novel is a film." The short story, like a photograph, lets you look at something familiar and have a ...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of literature. This week’s installment asks you to identify the titles and authors of memorable short ...
The short story is a type of fiction that tells a poignant narrative on a smaller scale. It is important that the characters and the plot of a short story are established and developed properly within ...
Colwill Brown has won the twentieth anniversary BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) for ‘You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle’, a ‘tense’ and ‘increasingly heartbreaking’ ...
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Writing the short story
THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not writing that one great novel that would put them on the front list of the ...
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