In the case of Anna, the protagonist of this short satirical novel, the answer is: get radicalized by Ayn Rand. Deeply in thrall to Rand’s theory of rational selfishness, Anna decamps to Los ...
Collection if you like your stories novella length: Richard Russo excels at novel length, but in “Trajectory: Stories” he ...
Samantha Harvey won the prestigious award for a wonder-filled novel, set aboard the International Space Station, that ponders ...
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A Bay Area novel lover’s short story collection
Diane Goettel, Stix’s editor at Black Lawrence Press, acknowledged that short story collections can be a hard sell, but said ...
The internationally acclaimed author wrote the short novel, titled "Koibumi” (Love letter), in 1949 for a newspaper. Its existence had not been known by literary experts and has not been ...
You wouldn’t start out trying to do a marathon, and writing a novel is basically a marathon. “I decided very early on, when I was writing a short story, I should write it as if I were paying ...
Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to develop characters and show us many events in their lives. A short story takes ...