Anyone who has ever read Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” a second (or more) time will remember that chest-tightening tension that happens when you read about the grandmother and…
Posts tagged Short Stories
$25, a cracker, and a nearly nine-year-old blog
I’ve been listening to Tori Amos’ “Silent All These Years” on repeat for the last forty-five minutes or so. It’s a delightful break from the repeated airing of Jackson Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes” and Neko…
Twin Study
If I were independently wealthy I would buy hundreds of copies of Stacey Richter’s short story collection Twin Study so that I could pass them out to people who claim to not like short stories…
Not Gaitskill’s best
What has always drawn me to the short stories of Mary Gaitskill is that she spends a lot of time writing about the struggle women have with their intelligence and their sexuality and how giving…
A nimble goddess
I can’t remember if this is the year that we proclaim the death of the novel or if it’s the short story that’s supposed to be dead. Maybe it’s fiction in general, or publishing specifically….