In The Lonely Voice, Irish writer Frank O’Connor discusses the techniques and challenges of the short story form and considers his favorite writers—among them Chekhov, Hemingway, Kipling, and Joyce—and their greatest works. O’Connor argues that the short story represents “our own attitude to life” and each chapter focuses on the different ways writers express this attitude through the art of the short story. “The storyteller differs from the novelist in this: he must be much more of a writer, much more of an artist—perhaps I should add, considering the examples I have chosen, much more a dramatist,” writes O’Connor. This reprinted edition includes a new introduction by award-winning Irish author Kevin Barry, bringing the 1962 classic to a new generation.