short stories

Book Review: Michael Glenn’s “Selected Stories” — Indelibly Messy Slices of Life

February 2, 2024
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In his short stories, Michael Glenn has a physician’s eye for detail and a psychologist’s insight into the way we think and what motivates us.

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Book Review: “The Body of the Soul” — Life is a Game Worth Playing

November 24, 2023
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Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.

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Book Review: Ann Beattie’s “Onlookers” — From a Bemused Distance

August 13, 2023
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A fairly strong showing for Ann Beattie. Readers who know Charlottesville will probably have a ball with this collection of short stories, which spotlight the town’s upscale, professional residents.

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Book Review: John Fulton’s “The Flounder” — A Testament to Human Resilience

June 7, 2023
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In The Flounder, John Fulton is clearly at the top of his game. His prose has that rare thing — a sense of intimacy.

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Book Review: “The Tree Stand” — Sharply Observed Stories of Hardscrabble Lives

October 19, 2022
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These are compelling stories about the trials and tribulations of dynamic, working-class characters.

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Book Review: “Two Nurses, Smoking” — A Skillful Take on the Times

October 2, 2022
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Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.

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Book Review: “You Have a Friend in 10A” — A Laboratory of a Short Story Collection

June 6, 2022
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You come away from this volume of short stories thinking that sure, Maggie Shipstead does write what she knows — it’s just that she may know everything.

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Book Review: “Treading the Uneven Road” — In Search of Discovery and Understanding

April 12, 2019
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L. M. Brown writes with a sure hand about men and women beset with dreams and longings, who fall in and out of love with each other, and who harbor secrets that shape their lives in unpredictable ways.

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Book Review: Diane Williams, Flash Fiction, and the Shrinking Short Story

November 27, 2018
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.

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Book Review: “For Other Ghosts” — Stories that Surprise

October 8, 2018
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The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.

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