Bryan Washington: “A Place Is What It Is Because of Its People”
Driving through Texas reveals many different communities. Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio are all radically different from one another, butContinue Reading
Tag: short stories
Writing About the Beauty and Violence of Kashmir
A conversation with Feroz Rather, author of ‘The Night of Broken Glass.’
‘Mouthful of Birds’ is a Surreal Stunner
On Samanta Schweblin’s short story collection on the heels of ‘Fever Dream’
Maryse Meijer Just Keeps Creeping Us Out in the Most Delightful Way
She’s back with a second short story collection, ‘Rag,’ and it’s intense.
Every Story in ‘Hardly Children’ Started With the First Sentence
Chicago-based Laura Adamczyk on her debut collection from FSG.
‘Evening in Paradise’ Is More Proof of Lucia Berlin’s Sainthood
On FSG’s second Berlin collection, two years after ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women.’
How Amazon’s New “Cli-Fi” Collection Expands the Genre
Burning Worlds is Amy Brady’s monthly column dedicated to examining trends in climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” in partnership with Yale Climate Connections.Continue Reading
Deborah Eisenberg’s Short Stories Are Sharp Enough to Cut Deep
The short fiction master gets more adventurous (and political) in ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’
Catherine Lacey Lives for the Sucker-Punch Sentence
A conversation about her first short story collection, ‘Certain American States.’
The Mississippi Delta Is Full of Secrets in ‘Sweet & Low’
A review of Nick White’s debut short story collection.
