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Short Fiction Potpourri #1 (On Sally Benson, Shastri Akella, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jared Lemus, & Joy Williams)
I try to keep most of my posts themed, but over time I accrue a critical mass of stories that I read serendipitously or that didn’t fit within the…
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The State of the Short Story Collection Part 1
In 2025, there were only 20 new English-language short story collections published in hardcover by the Big Five Publishers and their imprints.
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New Story Collection Roundup: January 2026 (On Senaa Ahmad, Sydney Rende, Camille Bordas, Dana Diehl, & Liadan Ní Chuinn)
This is the latest in a series in which I sample from new story collections.
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The Aesthetic Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
On The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
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Taking LitStack Seriously (On Peter Shull, Kirsti MacKenzie, Denise S. Robbins, Clancy Steadwell, & Brock Eldon)
And a defense of such
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The Uncollected Philip Roth Stories
Like many of the late twentieth-century American literary titans — Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison, McCarthy — Philip Roth’s fictional oeuvre is dominated by…
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New Story Collection Roundup #1 (On Lori Ostlund, Curtis Sittenfeld, Max Delsohn, Ed Park, & Mary-Helene Bertino)
This is the first in a series in which I sample from new story collections.
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The Fort Wayne Review of Books
The Fort Wayne Review of Books
Reviews of short stories from the provinces (though not actually Indiana).
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