Thoughts on Short Fiction: Women Writers
Yesterday, the world celebrated International Women’s Day and of course humanity celebrated the various women across different eras that have contributed to the world . Of…
Thoughts on Short Fiction: Bennard’s Top Five Short Stories
It is extremely hard to create a list of your favorite short stories especially when you reduce such a list to only five pieces of fiction…
Book Review: Dear Life by Alice Munro
If you have the time, I want you to watch the two most recent announcements of the Nobel Prize for Literature. To get you started, here’s…
Story Reviews: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro, and Jon by George Saunders
The Short Story Station sought the permission of Lynai to publish her reviews of last month’s short story selections. Lynai is “a lawyer, a teacher, a wife to…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
Some of the best writers in the world use geography to their advantage. That is not to say that such writers are adept at naming capital…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
In a time and society pervaded with gender roles and labels, Boys and Girls tell a story of a young girl’s initial confrontation with domesticity. To…
A Brief Survey of Our Favorite Short Stories
A couple of weeks ago, a bookish meme surfaced on Facebook. It asked people who were tagged to list ten books that have affected or influenced…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
Boys and Girls, one of the short stories included in Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades, is the story of a little girl who, at…
Story Review: Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
Boys and Girls is the coming-of-age story of a girl on the cusp of adolescence who is pitted between what she wants and what is expected…
Book Review: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman is Alice Munro’s NBCC-winning collection. The book is composed of eight stories packed in more than 300 pages. These stories…
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