The Impressive Range Of Shirley Jackson’s Let Me Tell You
One of America’s foremost proto–mommy bloggers is also one of America’s masters of horror and suspense, and yet many audiences…
One of America’s foremost proto–mommy bloggers is also one of America’s masters of horror and suspense, and yet many audiences…
When you read a short story, you experience its author at her most undiluted. The constraints of the genre force writers to compress…
Summer is a splendid time to enjoy America. If you happen to be in Roswell, New Mexico, you can participate…
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Sometimes, wisdom arises in the strangest of places, like a conversation between a witch and her cat. “Wickedness depends on…
Novels tend to get all the attention. Sure, they can absorb us for long periods of time, but short stories are…
If you’ve already laid in a supply of guacamole and stocked up on tequila for your Cinco de Mayo celebrations,…
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Even if the flowers are blooming and the birds are back, for some of us it just doesn’t feel like…
When March Madness begins, college basketball fans might not think they’ll have much time to read. But in its waning days,…
The short story can be a tricky art. With a limited word court, the author has less space to get…
I’m currently harboring a more-than-is-probably-healthy literary crush on Neil Gaiman, but even I have to admit the man/hero/legend has one serious…
“Light,” the final story in Kelly Link’s newest collection, is set in a world full of pocket universes, where twins grow…
Good things come in small packages, and that’s never more true than when it comes to that wonderful fictional form,…
As soon as the holidays roll around, everyone starts talking about their favorite Christmas movies and songs. For the most…
“When is the best time in a man’s life?” In her autobiographical short story “Working for a Living,” Alice Munro…
I once climbed through a window to hear Margaret Atwood read from her latest novel. The reading location had been…
When it comes to magical realism, especially magical realism set in East Asia, Japanese superstar Haruki Murakami gets all the…
You know that feeling you get when you would love to sit down to read a book, but you can’t…