You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story. By Molly Young Dear readers, This week’s theme is “short and sweet”: Short sentences, short stories, a sweet spot of a prose pair, and that’s all she ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

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In late October, actors Ron Perlman and Sharon Stone, sitting across from each other in Cedering Fox’s home in Studio City, were rehearsing a dramatic reading of Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy ...

We all go through periods when we aren’t opening the books on our shelves or actively seeking out new stories. Not everyone’s reading slump comes on in the same way. Some simply lose interest in ...

'Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26' will adapt eight stories its creator made before 'Fire Punch' and 'Chainsaw Man' made him famous. Reading time 3 minutes 'Nayuta of the Prophecy' is one of eight short stories ...