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 ...

Syrian novelist Abdullah Nafakh held a signing event for his latest short story collection, (Longing to Paradise), on Tuesday ...

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 ...

Gallant and Heighton aren’t writers that immediately make sense together, generationally, never mind Gallant’s predominantly writing short stories while Heighton had a more varied oeuvre, involving ...

“Near Flesh: A Celebration of Katherine Dunn,” with authors Jeff VanderMeer and Omar El-Akkad, takes place Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m ...

As Ross McMeekin tells it, short stories are a kind of literary firecracker. “There’s an intensity and a compression to the form,” he says. “It’s almost a puzzle element with short stories, in that ...

You won't find a story titled "Close Call" in author Kim Suhr's new collection of the same name. Usually collections are named after one of the stories within, but in this case, Suhr instead wanted ...

The 56th Dongin Literary Award, a celebration of Korean literature shared with readers, selects its annual winner after accumulating recommended works through monthly meetings. The award’s judging ...

Helen Schulman is not afraid to make you squirm. Across her long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer, she has fearlessly explored the awkward collisions between our private ...