By his death in 1987, Erskine Caldwell had published twenty-five novels, nearly one-hundred-and-fifty short stories and twelve volumes of non-fiction. Ellie Piddington looks at why his work is often excluded from the Southern literary canon.
Soumya Bhattacharya reviews Julian Barnes’s long-awaited third story collection, PULSE, and finds it beating with the rhythms of life.
Performing live isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but if you write fiction for publication then sooner or later you are likely to be invited to give a reading and you want to make sure that you can do your stories justice.
Proulx’s narrative constructions display a unique mode of seeing and writing the world. The stories in Close Range contain some of those shimmering literary moments I have ingested and carry round with me as vividly as if I were a personal witness to them.
Her love of the short form derives from her delight in the weight of every word and the way the expression of big ideas is possible in a small space. For this reason, Proulx believes that new writers should ‘cut their teeth’ with novel writing before attempting the complexities of the short story form.
