Items tagged with short stories.

Oprah Picks Short Story Collection by Uwem Akpan

by Adrian Versteegh

Daily News

For the first time, the world’s most influential reader has given her blessing to a short story collection. Oprah Winfrey—whose imprimatur virtually guarantees best-seller status—announced last Friday that the sixty-third selection for her eponymous book club is the debut Say You’re One of Them (Little, Brown, 2008) by Nigerian author and Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan.

Making the Case for National Short Story Month

by Staff

Daily News

With National Poetry Month officially wrapped up, Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network has declared May “Short Story Month.” He plans to select three stories—one from a published collection, one from a print periodical, and one from an online journal—to read and blog about each day. If all goes well, Wickett will have covered just shy of one hundred pieces by month’s end.

Harper Perennial Builds Fifty-Two Stories Blog

by Staff

Daily News

Harper Perennial announced last Wednesday that it will offer a free short story every week throughout 2009. Each Sunday night the HarperCollins imprint will post a new short story on the blog Fifty-Two Stories. Eight stories, including "Wish Fulfillment" by Mary Gaitskill, "Burn Me Up" by Tom Piazza, and "Beauty Stolen From Another World" by Louise Erdrich, have already been published.

Chasing the Whale: A Profile of Junot Díaz

by Frank Bures

Feature

September/October 2007

Eleven years after the publication of his best-selling debut story collection, Junot Díaz’s follow-up has finally arrived.