American Short Stories
The short story in Britain is often regarded as the poor relation of the literary world. James Lasdun, one of our own best contemporary short story writers, has said, ‘writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don’t often make up a writer’s main body of work and that’s not because they don’t see the market for it.’
Viewed from this country the short story in America has always seemed to be in ruder health. A rich tradition informs the present and several of the more interesting contemporary writers, from Cheever through to Tobias Wolff and Lorrie Moore, have made their reputations through the genre. There are many currently producing great writing, but to whet your appetite we have picked out a few, new and established, you might not have yet tried.
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Waiting for the Evening News
Annie Proulx in a recent review for the Guardian wrote that ‘this outstanding collection marks Tim Gautreaux as one of the best sh... See details
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Everything here is the best thing ever
A highly acclaimed debut collection set among confused and disaffected teenagers or twenty-somethings whose misapprehensions often lead them to a c... See details
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Honored Guest
This is a wonderfully acerbic collection, full of dark humour, which captures the casual brutality of its characters’ everyday lives. Her set... See details