When a short story is successful, a reader ends it feeling certain that it could not have been a novel … More
Tag: Short Story
61. (Eudora Welty)
Eudora Welty is as inaccessible a writer of short fiction as any. Like Hawthorne, she writes short stories that sit … More
60. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The short story is the most resistant of literary puzzles: what it is, or what it does, or why people … More
53. (Flannery O’Connor)
Irony, so common, sets her apart. She is ironic without archness, without super-subtlety, without glib or coy superiority, without contempt, … More
5. (D.H. Lawrence)
V.S. Pritchett, introducing his edition of the Oxford Book of Short Stories, admits that he admires D.H. Lawrence most as a … More
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