You don't need to invest hours or days to feel the emotional payoff from these brilliant games, where the story takes center ...

In new collections by Yiyun Li, Claire Keegan, Alexandra Chang and Lore Segal, interpersonal bonds are created and destroyed. By Kathleen Alcott The short-story writer “can’t create compassion with ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

"As a teacher, I thought I only had time for a very short form. I loved teaching the short story and always thought it would be so wonderful - though for me impossible - to write a satisfying short ...

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 ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

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 ...

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes. By Anthony DePalma Alice Munro, the revered Canadian author who started writing short ...