Short fiction in 2016

Our little blog took a backseat last year, as real life and real jobs were (still are!) top priority. All we could manage is a paltry…

Book Review | The Sleeper and The Spindle by Neil Gaiman

When I read Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples a few years back, I declared it to be one of my most favorite short stories ever. In…

Story Review | A Mistake by Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a native of Delhi, India. He migrated with his family to the United States when he was only eight. His novel Family Life…

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…

Book Review: Tenth of December by George Saunders

Tenth of December is a collection of stories about the human condition as exposed to social and economic struggle. This I observed and noted in a reading…

Short Story Writer of the Month: April 2015

“Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty?” In January of 2013, as the year was just beginning and…

Book Review: Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Cathedral is Raymond Carver’s next collection of short stories after What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, a collection that was heavily edited, and…

Book Review: While the Women Are Sleeping by Javier Marías

Our good friend Emir drops by the station with a review of a short story collection. His interests are chess, fiction, and literature. Some of his favorite authors…

Book Review: Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

This collective work took its title from Lou Reed’s song Heroin, “When I’m rushing on my run, And I feel just like Jesus’ son.” I never…

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…