Many authors say that penning a great short story is harder than writing an entire novel. These are the best short stories to add to your list. The post Treat your mind: The 13 best short stories ...

Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher was one of the oral examiners of Budnitz’s thesis and this year decided to add “Dog Days,” a short story she wrote at the ...

You’ll have to buy McSweeney’s Issue 50 to read this story, but you should be supporting the arts anyway. Happy reading! —Staff writer Angela F. Hui can be reached at angela.hui@thecrimson ...

PBS unveiled a list of America’s 100 best-loved novels, chosen in support of THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, a new PBS series and multi-platform initiative that celebrates the joy of reading and the ...

For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...

The stories include “The Killers,” which seems to me one of the four great American short stories. (All you have to do is drop the nearest hat, and I’ll tell you what I think the others are.

The latest book from the celebrated American novelist is a collection of short stories pulled from his decades-long career. Exploring themes of isolation and solitude, The Angel Esmeralda charts a ...