Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

At this year's Malta Book Festival, taking place in Ta' Qali from Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 November, Kite Group will be launching three new collections of short stories by distinguished Maltese ...

In ‘False Memories & Eldritch Interludes,’ the Vermont horror author and folklorist collects his short stories and reveals the real-life tales behind them.

Author James R. Gapinski joins us on The Morning Blend to discuss The Museum of Future Mistakes. The stories combine strange ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

We are a nation of storytellers - and if you ever needed proof, you need look no further than our short story writers.

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

Janie Dempsey Watts has just published her fifth book, a short story collection of creative, non-fiction stories entitled Mostly True, Stories with a Southern Sensibility. (Bold Horses Press, 2025). F ...

Harper Lee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for her books “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Go Set a Watchman.” ...

The title of British author Kate Atkinson’s new short-story collection, “Normal Rules Don’t Apply,” could easily be repurposed for an eventual memoir. Atkinson, who didn’t start writing until age 40 ...