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Gunnhild Oyehaug: The Freedom of Knots
photo: Magne Sandnes Knots is full of short stories—some of them no more than a single paragraph—that burrow deep into a character’s head as they muddle through situations that threaten to overwhelm...
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The Short Stories That Haunt Sarah Hall
photo: Richard Thwaites I’ve been a fan of Sarah Hall for about a decade now; she’s even been a guest for a literary event I curated back in the day. So I was very excited to see her new short story...
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Caitlin Hamilton Summie: Awoken by Erdrich
photo courtesy Caitlin Hamilton Summie I’ve known Caitlin Hamilton Summie for years, first as the marketing director of some fantastic small independent publishers, and then as the proprietor of her...
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Paul Yoon’s Character-Building “Island”
photo: Peter Yoon It hardly seems like it’s been three years since Paul Yoon won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award for his first novel, Snow Hunters, let alone seven years since...
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Laura Hulthen Thomas Plays a Long Game
photo: Ron Thomas Hey, if you’re going to be in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 21, 2017, you should swing by the University of Michigan campus in the afternoon, because Laura Hulthen Thomas will be...
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Jan English Leary on Antonya Nelson
photo: John Leary Many of the protagonists in Skating on the Vertical, the debut short story collection by Jan English Leary, are women on the edge: A young teacher frustrated by a system rigged...
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Paige Cooper on Peter Carey’s Fantastic
photo: Adam Michels The short stories in Paige Cooper’s Zolitude are dark and uncanny, and it takes a while to get adjusted to her world. Even a story like Moriah, which starts off with a woman...
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Lynn Sloan: Coast to Coast with Ollie
photo courtesy Lynn Sloan Lynn Sloan recently had a story from her debut collection, This Far Isn’t Far Enough, chosen for inclusion in the acclaimed radio series Selected Shorts. It’s a potentially...
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Virginia Pye: Black Tickets & Feminist Poets of Another Time
photo: Tennessee Photography I met Virginia Pye at a book festival down in Richmond ages ago, so I was delighted to hear that she’s got a new short story collection, The Shelf Life of Happiness. In...
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Chris Power: Discovering the Short Story
photo: Claudia Burlotti A flailing standup comedian keeps his career alive by doing Rodney Dangerfield’s act, but you can just imagine how that makes him feel. A woman recalls growing up in an...
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