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Short stories may not take as long as novels to put together, but that doesn't make them any easier to perfect. SEE ALSO: I tried to write a novel in a month and now I have a publishing offer Crafting ...

“We have professors of poetry and professors of ethnicized literature, but no professors of the short story,” Michael J. Collins said to a Stanford crowd on Tuesday. He joked that it may be because it ...

Beloved author Shirley Jackson would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec. 14, had she lived to see it. In honor of this auspicious occasion, I've got 10 essential Shirley Jackson short stories ...