Comments on: The Short Story

By: Farrah Satre

Farrah Satre — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:43:25 +0000

Great information

By: Carolina

Carolina — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:11:01 +0000

Their youngest boy was very nice, but slows in the uptake.

By: Peltier Cooler :

Peltier Cooler : — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:08:38 +0000

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By: toddler toys

toddler toys — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:03:36 +0000

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By: les

les — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:55:37 +0000

I am a lover of the short story

Wm Morris- I am with you on the F Scott Fitzgerald (I don’t love any of his novels but adore his short stories– I have the same Bruccoli ed., which is fabulous!) My husband and I read them our first year of marriage. My favorite is “Emotional Bankruptcy”. I lvoe how he toys with various concepts. I also love his Basil and Josephine stories – like “That Kind of Party” absolutely delightful, about kissing games something every child can relate to!

My other all time favorite is Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (better than unaccustomed earth IMO) I really love the story “Sexy”. One day I will blog about it’s very interesting lingering question.

By: Th.

Th. — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:25:21 +0000

Shelah.

If you like Lahiri, I recommend Mary Clyde for your Mormon story jones.

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:12:10 +0000

I agree about “What You Pawn I Will Redeem.” It was published in the New Yorker during a time when I was reading the magazine regularly because my grandparents subscribed to it. I found it difficult to like or even admire most of the short stories that ran during that period when I was reading it weekly. But Alexie’s story was different. It hit all the right notes for me.

By: Angela Hallstrom

Angela Hallstrom — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:39:09 +0000

FHL, I agree that so many short stories have a sense of sadness, or an “incomplete” quality. I get bugged by that occasionally, too. I think it’s harder for a short piece to earn its happy ending. It’s so difficult to pull off without dipping into sentimentality. In a novel, I think the challenges are bigger, so an ultimate triumph comes off as justified. It seems, too, that since a short story is short, the conflicts are (usually) smaller by necessity, and the resolutions are often a small change with little sense for what the future holds. One of the reasons I like Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” is because it is infused with this sense of hope–and ends, in its own way, happily–without feeling treacly or sentimental. (Oh, and thanks for the congratulations!).

Shelah, “The Interpreter of Maladies” is really good. I especially like the title story with those monkeys. Alas, it doesn’t end well.

By: Shelah

Shelah — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:39:54 +0000

I’m mostly a novel reader myself, but in the last few years I’ve really enjoyed Jhumpa Lahiri’s collections, “The Interpreter of Maladies” and “Unaccustomed Earth,” although the stories in the latter were interconnected enough that I felt like I’d been reading a novel when I finished.

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:05:47 +0000

Stephen King? And which son? I know of two that write excellent short stories. I’ve read many of Joe Hill’s and only one of Owen King’s, but both have impressed me mightily.