Tag: short stories
Review: Hà Nội at Midnight by Bảo Ninh
Review: Hà Nội at Midnight, Bảo Ninh, Texas Tech University Press – “A soldiers’s life, like a sigh, was full of sorrow and boredom,” writes Bảo Ninh, whose collection of ten short stories evoke deeply emotional and heartbreaking memories of the Vietnam War in his book, “Hà Nội at Midnight.”
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Interview: Admit This to No One
Admit This to No One, Leslie Pietrzyk, Unnamed Press – Leslie Pietrzyk’s ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE takes on the intersection of the personal and the political through the lens of a group of women connected to a powerful Speaker of the House.
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Interview: Riots Inspire Debut About Monticello Refugees
My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Henry Holt & Company – In six stories in her debut collection Johnson studies racism, belonging, a sense of home.
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Interview: Life Among the Terranauts Keeps Us Reading
Life Among the Terranauts, Caitlain Horrocks, Little Brown – Caitlin Horrock’s short story collection Life Among the Terranauts shines a light on people in communities under pressure.
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Themes of Loneliness Underlie Parker’s Short Stories
Snapshots, Eliot Parker, Morgan James fiction – Eliot Parker grew up in Appalachia, so it is no surprise that his award winning collection of short stories Snapshots is rooted in the people, places and customs of the region. His stories have a dark, sometimes surreal edge, befitting the author, who also pens mystery novels.
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Interview: A Small Thing to Want
A Small Thing to Want, Cawood, Press 53 – A Small Thing to Want is a series of stories about the tricky nature of love and relationships. It chronicles how the choices we make are often influenced by the ghosts of failed relationships and lost love. Shuly Xóchitl Cawood discusses the creation of the collection, working across genres and how to stay motivated.
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Interview: Writing Your Way to Understanding
I Have the Answer, Kelly Fordon, Wayne State Univerity Press – Kelly Fordon’s latest collection of short stories deals with the unexpected losses that life hands out;
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Woolson: Collected stories edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
Woolson: Collected stories, Anne Boyd Rioux editor, Library of America – In her lifetime Constance Fenimore Woolson achieved a remarkable degree of commercial success as well as literary acclaim, an achievement almost unheard of for a woman author of the Victorian era.
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Metropolitan Stories Reveal Magicical Life in the Museum
Metropolitan Stories, Christine Coulson, Penguin Random House –
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Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale
Where the Light Falls, Nancy Hale, Library of America – “Nancy Hale’s touch was so precise and delicate that you might think you’re reading undiscovered Edith Wharton stories.
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Shelf Life of Happiness Explores Complexity of Love
Shelf Life of Happiness, Virginia Pye Virginia Pye had always written, but when she took a class from Annie Dillard at Wesleyan University in Connecticut she began to get a deeper sense of what writing requires.
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The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yazek
The Future i Female!, Lisa Yazek Editor, Library of America – Shocking, disturbing and awe-inspiring is Lisa Yaszek ’s compilation of 25 science fiction and pulp stories, all written by women, in a special publication by The Library of America,The Future is Female! It comes with a warning: Visionary women writers in this landmark anthology may permanently alter your perception of American science fiction.
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