I came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her seminal novel The Golden Notebook. Originally published in Lessing’s short s...
Peter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to the Finca Vigia collection. I’d read the story before, but not given it due...
Three years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day. At that point I hadn’t read any flash fiction a...
Believe it or not, the inspiration for this article came whilst talking to my sister’s spoodle, Harley. I like talking to Harley because, like many dogs, now an...
In 2008, I had to submit a 20,000-word dissertation of short stories for a creative writing course. The stories were written, and I had months remaining to do t...
Rental Hearts, Lion Lovers and Girlfriends in the Deep Freezer: Magical Realism and the Contemporary Short Story in the UK
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The last decade has seen a renais...
In the Penguin compilation volume, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (2009 ), the six novels chosen – the word novelette is used to describe one of them– half ...
It could be that one of the greatest obstacles to overcome when reading Kipling’s short stories for the first time is what you have already read about the autho...
