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 ...

There should be a whole book about Rhonda Bacon. In the short story “Screaming Angel,” Rhonda is on her way to a boxing match when she comes upon a gruesome scene on a Las Vegas sidewalk. A security ...

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 ...

NPR's Eric Deggans talks with Zahid Rafiq about his first book, "The World With Its Mouth Open," a collection of short stories about the lives of people in Kashmir. In a new short story collection ...

Brock Clarke is widely regarded as one of America’s gifted comic writers. “Clarke’s disquieting, droll work reflects humanity ...

As Ross McMeekin tells it, short stories are a kind of literary firecracker. “There’s an intensity and a compression to the form,” he says. “It’s almost a puzzle element with short stories, in that ...

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Gallant and Heighton aren’t writers that immediately make sense together, generationally, never mind Gallant’s predominantly ...

Tampa author Aracelis González Asendorf talks about her book, Dressing the Saints, which explores the Cuban immigrant ...

Former Alpena resident Emily Erickson has released her first book, “Unfold: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems.” “Unfold ...

When I was in college at Cornell, I dated a literary boy who was a protégé of Harold Brodkey's—who I'd never heard of—and this boy gave me a copy of Carver's collection as a gift. My first thought was ...

The 56th Dongin Literary Award, a celebration of Korean literature shared with readers, selects its annual winner after ...