![]() ![]() ![]() It is in the short story that our authors excel, and this is a hill I am willing to die on. What’s wrong with calling a book of short stories “a book of short stories”?Ĭoming both literally and literarily from Latin America, these idiosyncrasies have always puzzled me. Call me picky, but this has always been a problematic word for me, because it masks the fact that this kind of book – if any good – is still a coherent conceptual unit: stories don’t grow spontaneously, like weed, so that writers can simply collect them. But the hapless short-story book is still generally referred to as a “collection” in English. The latter tendency is falling out of fashion, thank God (thanks in large part to indie presses). S hort stories: how not to despair with the unjust way they are treated in the world of British letters? From their frequent definition in terms of what they are not – a novel – to the reluctance of risk-averse publishers when it comes to releasing one of these not-novels into the world. ![]()
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