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    The short story's lack of room to ruminate about so-called "big" socio-political issues is one reason the form is not popular with so-called "serious" critics who prefer genres that generalize. The kind of complexity that fascinates masters of the short story is not captured by using more and more words but by using just the right ones.
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    Thoughts on reading and studying the short story by a guy who's read and written about a lot of short stories. Friday, December 31, 2010. Best Short Story Collections of 2010. It is New Year's Eve, 2010. I have have looked over the "Best Books of 2010" lists of the major newspapers, networks, and magazines and list below the short story ...
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    In her introduction to the 2010 Best American Short Stories, which came out recently, Heidi Pitlor has some bad news and some good news about the short story.She laments, as do we all, the demise over the past decade of such venues for the form as Story, Double Take, and Ontario Review, and the budget slashings that have threatened such journals as Southern Review and the New England Review.
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    The Best American Short Stories 2009 came out in Oct. last year; The Pen/O.Henry Prize Stories: 2010 came out in April of this. With twenty stories in each volume and priced on Amazon at about ten bucks each for the paperback, they are the two best bargains out there for any lover of the short story form.
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    The Fiction 2010 supplement includes seven short stories, three essays, and a handful of poems, all of which I have read with interest. The three essays are perfunctory, ordinary, and obligatory. Richard Bausch's "How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons" argues, with absolutely no demur from me, that aspiring fiction writers should spend their ...
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    Short Story Month 2010--Best American Short Storie... Short Story Month 2010: Pinckney Benedict's "Zog-1... Short Story Month 2010: Pinckney Benedict's "Mercy... Short Story Month, May 2010: Pinckney Benedict's "... Short Story Month 2010: "Miracle Boy" by Pinckney... Short Story Month 2010: Atlantic Monthly Stories; Short Story Month 2010 ...
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    To celebrate May as Short Story month, Dan Wickett, editor of Dzanc Books, has arranged for several writers, reviewers, bloggers, critics, and editors to discuss selected stories from two new books: Pinckney Benedict's The Miracle Boy and Other Stories and Alyson Hagy's Ghosts of Wyoming.I am posting my own comments from that discussion here and urging you to check Dan's blog "Emerging ...
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    Short Story Month, May 2010. The idea of a Short Story Month has been floating around for several years. In 2003, Larry Dark, director of The Story Prize, urged in an interview that the short story was a very American form and should be celebrated in a National Short Story Month. In 2007, Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network and ...
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    Short Story Month 2010: Atlantic Monthly Stories. When I was in high school in a little town in the mountains of Kentucky in the late 1950's, I worked afternoons and holidays at East Kentucky News, a wholesaler who distributed magazines, comic books, and paperbacks to newsstands, drugstores, and small grocery stores in the Eastern Kentucky ...
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    The concept of The Atlantic Monthly began in April, 1857, when Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and a few others met at the Parker House Hotel in Boston to create a "journal of literature, politics, science, and the arts." The first issue, with James Russell Lowell as editor, came out in November, 1857.

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