We’ve always done these stories. We always will. We pursue them with an intensity, depth and clarity that is unmatched, ...

Text: 100 Great Short Stories, James Daley, editor. Dover Thrift Edition. 911.288.01 Homewood Campus Wednesdays, Sept. 27–Nov. 1 from 6:30–8 p.m. Cost: $153. JHU full-time faculty/staff are eligible ...

Recommended text: The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Tobias Woolf. Handouts will also be provided. 919.317.01 Homewood Campus Wednesdays, Oct. 17 through Dec. 12, 6:45 ...

Short-story writing can be a great way to get noticed as a science-fiction author, or just a way to hone your craft before you write your hard-driving 10,000,000 word novel that spans ten billion ...

Grace Paley, 84, an American writer who achieved literary renown as a master of the short story and created a small but influential body of work that illuminated the frustrations and joys of women ...

NEW YORK - Short story writer Edith Pearlman has won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction. Pearlman was cited Thursday for "Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories," continuing ...

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning writer best known for her short stories, has died. She was 92. Munro's family confirmed the author's death to The Globe and Mail on May 13.

Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, one of the first Asian American writers to earn literary distinction after World War II with highly polished short stories that illuminated a world circumscribed by culture ...

A short story is often the fantasy of a writer, as well as the experience of a writer. On the book's title story, "Mr. Bones," about a father who turns himself into a minstrel act.

The writer Joy Williams, who has published both novels and short stories to great praise, once observed: “A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never.” Many short stories can be ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll ...

The writer’s signature style of ending—a final, thrilling note—has the touch of magic that distinguishes the form at its best. Louis Menand on “O. Henry: 101 Stories,” collected by the ...