Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

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For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

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 be ...

Shehnab Sahin’s first book of short stories follows a historical order, starting in the mid-19th century and ending in 2019.

Apple Valley local Elizabeth Aguilar is celebrating the release of her debut book, "Chronicles of an Outspoken Chicana." In ...

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A central Iowa English professor’s debut collection of short stories is being released today and it’s an atypical collection since it reads more like a novel. Marc Dickinson, who teaches creative ...

As prose forms go, the short story is a tricky beast. A good short story doesn’t just have to be short—it has to be tight, efficient, and surprising. It has to be clear-eyed about the point it wants ...

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