Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

Lauren Groff returns with a spirited, anguished look at the social narratives that shape our lives in her new short story collection.

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Beth Shapiro compiled this month’s selections. In ...

Urdu Literature has provided a scintillating treasure house of fiction, beginning from the earliest novels like Umrao Jan Ada ...

“I think for me it’s about playfulness. … I guess the thing I always fear is rigidity or getting stuck, and stories were just an opportunity to think differently, think about different kinds of ...

As Ross McMeekin tells it, short stories are a kind of literary firecracker. “There’s an intensity and a compression to the form,” he says. “It’s almost a puzzle element with short stories, in that ...