There is a line in Munro’s short story “Wood,” and it is one of my favorites in her entire body of work. A man named Roy is cutting trees, and he steps into a hole.

Celebrate Short Story Month with books by authors Alice Munro, Alejandro Zambra, Juliet Escoria and more in this edition of the Book Club newsletter.

Short stories have become coveted in the rights market, especially over the past year, and have led to bidding wars among the major studios and streamers. Author Victor Sweetser sold the ...

He wants to focus on building his short story collection and is working on this with his South Asia Speaks mentor — author Mahesh Rao. “There is so much to do within the short story form.

Ye Gulelew Sekaram in Amharic or 'The Drunkard of Gulelle' is officially recognized as the first modern short story in Amharic literature which was written and published around 1946 by Temesgen Gebre, ...

Singleton is a longtime beloved Southern author who enlarges readers’ understanding of our region through his wry and wise short stories, which have been published in prestigious publications ...

Alice Munro, Nobel Literature Winner Revered as Short Story Master, Dies at 92 Often ranked with Anton Chekhov, John Cheever and a handful of other short story writers, the author achieved stature ...

Author Jamel Brinkley is earning new praise as one of the best short story writers of his generation. And if you ask him why he writes, he says it comes down to obsessions and questions.

The author known for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) — and for her controversial remarks about the racial politics of fiction — has written her first collection of short stories and novellas.

Short story writers may be have to be brief, but it doesn't mean they don't have a lot to say. Today, we listen back to some of our favorite interviews with writers of short prose. Craig Childs ...

Author Hortense Calisher once called the short story "an apocalypse in a teacup." Critic Jane Ciabattari presents her favorite mini-apocalypses of 2012, from veteran authors like Sherman Alexie to ...