Category: Short Story Month 2009

May 31, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Love Affair with Secondaries" by Craig Raine

>I tell writing students that stories about adultery and stories about cancer are tired and done to death, and that stories about adultery AND…
May 26, 2009

>Munro Wins Man Booker International Prize

>Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
May 22, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Ava’s Apartment" by Jonathan Lethem

>Although it isn’t labeled a short story–The New Yorker doesn’t seem to do that–neither is this “fiction” by Jonathan Lethem labeled a novel excerpt,…
May 15, 2009

>The New Yorker: "In the South" by Salman Rushdie

>This is a terrific story, possibly my favorite of the year so far. Senior and Junior are two old men with the same name…
May 10, 2009

>Five Star Literary Stories

>My review of E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” (Guernica) is up at Five Star Literary Stories. Happy Short Story Month!
May 10, 2009

>Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

>Tunneling to the Center of the Earthby Kevin WilsonEcco 2009 $13.99 I was curious about the cover of Kevin Wilson‘s collection of short stories,…
May 9, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Autobiography of J.G.B." by J.G. Ballard

>More allegory? I have not read much J.G. Ballard, who died last month, so I don’t know how typical this is for him. Perhaps…
May 1, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Slows" by Gail Hareven

>Kicking off Short Story Month! It takes a little while to figure out what’s going on here because the narrative voice sounds normal and…
April 29, 2009

>It’s Happening Again

>Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network has declared May to be Short Story Month, and will be reading and writing about a lot of…