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 ...

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 ...

“I think for me it’s about playfulness. … I guess the thing I always fear is rigidity or getting stuck, and stories were just an opportunity to think differently, think about different kinds of ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: For some folks, talking about climate change is enough to make you want to crawl under the bed. St. Paul author Ashley Shelby gets that. She ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of ...

Marina Brown’s "The Gentlemen of Verona: 20 Stories for Grownups" (Gilberte Publishing 2024) is a brilliant collection of short stories that once again demonstrate Brown’s tremendous range of subjects ...

A central Iowa English professor’s debut collection of short stories is being released today and it’s an atypical collection since it reads more like a novel. Marc Dickinson, who teaches creative ...

“Brawler” is a knockout. This new short story collection from award-winning Gainesville writer Lauren Groff is her eighth book; her last story collection, “Florida” (2018), won wide acclaim, and this ...

The Negaunee Public Library is offering a poetry and short story night at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 9. This is a recurring event that meets on the second Thursday each month, but all are welcome to ...