Authors Louise Erdrich, Helen Garner, Rachel Khong, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ruth Ozeki and the late Lore Segal all have collections coming out.

Something is shifting in literary culture. " In a reading landscape reshaped by shorter attention spans and the relentless ...

Ali Smith, Amal El-Mohtar, Louise Erdrich, Han Kang, Lena Dunham, Rachel Kohng, Jesym Ward and Anne Enright have books out ...

Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

There's a unique magic to the short story collection. Unlike the sprawling landscape of a novel, each piece offers a concentrated burst of narrative, a fleeting glimpse into a character's life or a ...

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 ...

Before Covid-19, there was no formula for social distancing, merely a concept of personal space in public places and safety guidelines like standing behind a painted line while waiting for a subway.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James’ third novel and brilliant anticolonial critique (also a National Book Award longlist nominee) deploys a large cast of ...

When the Exxon Valdez dumped more than 10 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound, “Yellowfish” author John Keeble received a call from his then-Harper & Row editor Ted Solotaroff asking ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades. In her debut short story ...

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 ...