American short fiction has always thrived on intensity. Within a few pages, it can capture a lifetime, a heartbreak, or a national mood. The following pieces (tragic, witty, haunting, and strange) ...

SOMETHING has gone wrong of late with short-story writers. Something has happened to them; and what that something is, still more why it is, are worth considering, short stories being now, as they ...

The Best American Short Stories 2022 (Mariner 2022), selected and edited by fiction writer Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli, 2003), presents as strong a selection of writing as the ...

Actors Ivan Hernandez (And Just Like That...), Richard Masur (The Girls on the Bus), and Cynthia Nixon (The Gilded Age) honor the 2025 Best American Short Stories, curated and edited by bestselling ...

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $23.95 (cloth) One of the mysteries of literary physics is how the short story—something we are repeatedly told no one any longer wishes to publish or read—manages to ...

American Short Fiction, a nonprofit literary organization based in Austin, Tex., has announced its fall 2024 "MFA for All" program. The series will feature three accomplished authors as faculty: Jamel ...

I’ve been reading the Best American series. To be exact, I’ve been reading it for 35 years, since high school, when I found a copy of the “Best American Short Stories” 1986 (edited by Raymond Carver) ...

CINEMA16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and awardwinning shorts on DVD With over three hours of films CINEMA16 AMERICAN SHORT FILMS is essential viewing for anyone ...