short stories
Book Review: “Your Duck Is My Duck” — Not Enough Tingles
Deborah Eisenberg’s stories pull you in and imitate life in an uncanny way.
Read MoreSchutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
Read MoreSusan Sontag wrote short stories as a hobby; she saved more of her enormous intellectual energy for her novels and essays.
Read MoreThese tales have an incendiary energy, but Osama Alomar handles his narrative explosives with restraint, wisdom, care, and precision.
Read MoreWhat could have been excursions into monochromatic despair are elevated, through resourceful inventiveness, into exhilarating journeys.
Read MoreFuse Book Review: “Beasts You’ll Never See” — Short Stories that Elicit Shrieks of Hilarity
Nate Liederbach demotes plot and Aristotelian mechanics, replacing them with the acrobatics of a beer-loud voice.
Read MoreBook Review: “My Brooklyn Writer Friend” — Flashes in the Gloom
Thanks in large part to brevity alone, the way these stories work is closer to poetry than to fiction.
Read MoreBook Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into Eternity
One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.
Read MoreWhat John Keene has given us in Counternarratives is fearless fiction.
Read MoreThe events Colin Barrett renders in Young Skins have the texture of life, albeit the darker side, in that they puzzle and disturb and linger painfully.
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