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The Long and the Short of It: Linked Story Collections Bridging the Divide
To me, the short story is this miraculously compressed form, elegant and complex, small in shape but large and deep in meaning; it has the capacity for perfection in a way that the novel does not. Many writers work their way “up” to writing a novel; perhaps I’ll find that my artistic trajectory will be to work my way “down” to writing gorgeous, perfect short stories.
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#14 - Dante's War, by Sandra Sabatini
I wanted to like this novel, I really did. I even tried to like it. Sabatini's first book, a collection of linked short stories called The One With the News, was this amazingly nuanced examination of emotional complexity in a time o... Read Post
Anis Shivani: Short Stories: Writers Talk About The Form To Anis Shivani
We asked the writers these questions: What do you like about writing short stories, and if you also write novels, how do you compare the writing? Read Post
A small Alpine form
From The World of Nabokov’s Stories (1999), by Maxim D. Shrayer: In an 1971 interview with Stephen Jan Parker, Nabokov said: “In relation to the typical novel the short story represents a small Alpine, or Polar, form. It looks diffe... Read Post