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 ...

Brawler” is a knockout. This new short story collection from award-winning Gainesville writer Lauren Groff is her eighth book ...

For readers seeking serious literary fiction that delivers both intellectual stimulation and emotional depth without ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1.Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz Jill Gutowitz's debut essay collection has solidified her own place in the lesbian canon, ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic.

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 ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: For some folks, talking about climate change is enough to make you want to crawl under the bed. St. Paul author Ashley Shelby gets that. She ...