Nearing the End of the (Short) Story (Month)
Nearing the end of National Short Story Month, and as I say about the ending of any good short story–too soon! Too soon! So, as promised, some more titles of short story collections shared with me by my closest friends from Facebook. Liz: Not the End of the World, by Kate Atkinson. Series of linked short […]
White Boys Can Write
Once again, let us honor National Short Story Month–this time with five fine and recent story collections by the endangered species, the White Male Writer. WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT MEN, by Michael Burke AS IF WE WERE PREY, by Michael Delp THE WORLD OF A FEW MINUTES AGO, by Jack Driscoll CARRY EACH HIS BURDEN, by James Goertel […]
You Gotta Read This ~ Celebrating the Short Story Collection and Short Story Month
I know you know this, but it is National Short Story Month here in the US. So I again want to honor the art of short story writing by sharing with you all some short story collections my closest friends (you know, the ones I met on Facebook) are partial to and why. Behn R: […]
Why The Short Story? ~ A National Short Story Month Remix
[Excerpted from this blog’s long series “Why The Short Story?” For full text, click here.] Like so many writers, I loved to read when I was a child. I remember SRA books—do you remember those? You’d have to be of a certain age, and maybe of a certain region of the world. Anyway, SRA was […]
The Greatest Show ~ A National Short Story Month Recommendation
Did you know that May is National Short Story Month? Did you? Well, it is. And despite what publishers say about these things, there are many, many readers of the short story out there, and many, many fine writers and collections of short stories. Lately, a number of short story collections have gotten the recognition […]
“Toss the Confetti! Release the Doves!” ~ David Abrams Joins the Conversation
One of the best things about this huge world of social networking is that you get many opportunities to stumble across folks and their words you might not find otherwise. Just so with the post that follows. I cyber-ly met the writerDavid Abrams when he visited Alan Heathcock’s VOLT-mobile on View From the Keyboard, a series on this site. […]