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Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory is one of the strangest little collections of stories that I have ever read, and oddly, it’s really resonant. While longer than sudden fiction (though some of it really is just that), each of these short stories are dark and offered up something [...]
I was at the grocery store the other day and as I was wandering up and down the aisles I started thinking about short stories and how much I used to like them when I was younger and why I have less patience for them now. I think part of the reason is that I [...]
A perusal of the back of More of This World or Maybe Another, a novel in stories, doesn’t offer up character names or any of the details typically emphasized in book descriptions. It makes simple statements about four people who are coming together and forming friendships- that I might add don’t necessarily make sense on [...]
My first experience with Elizabeth Gaskell was hearing that she was on a reading list my freshman year in high school. Friends of mine were studying for an exam which required them to memorize authors and the books or stories they had written. I remember my friend mentioning Gaskell over and over again in an [...]
Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories, by Lauren Groff Publisher: Voice Books Publication Date: January 27, 2009 Format: Hardcover, 320 pages “…she watched, holding her breath, as each person reached for his own small bird, and made it disappear behind the veil. For a long time, at least fifteen minutes, there were the wet sounds [...]
The Man In The Picture, by Susan Hill Publisher: Overlook Hardcover Publication Date: September 4, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 160 pages Oliver is in town to visit his former tutor and mentor, Theo Parmitter. They catch up and reminisce about old times when Theo suddenly announces after dinner that he has a story he must tell [...]
Down to a Sunless Sea, by Mathias B. Freese Publisher: Wheatmark Publication Date: 2007 Format: Trade Paperback, 134 pages “Jon went on as if I was there, as if I was not there. He told one anecdote after another, black pearls on a string, each with a dark lesson he had learned or imagined he [...]
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