“I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.” ThinkingWantBookStoriesAgentsCollectionsShort StoryScreamPipelineOzarks Author:Daniel Woodrell
“A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.” WantStoriesSeaYouthRiversFishesBoatCollectionsLakesFishingShort StoryDisplayCourtesyElderlyTrophiesTrout Author:John Cheever
“When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.” WayStoriesMy OwnRevelationsCollections Author:Jean Paul Gaultier
“Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.” PeopleChildrenStoriesCarePowerfulEffortFocusMagicTeamLessonsMembersCreatingStrategySimplicityCoreCollectionsRelevantElegantPracticalityWorking Life Author:George Bodenheimer
“Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.” HumansStoriesWrittenRelationParadiseCollectionsExplorationHuman RelationsPoignantDebutSensuousTransience Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.” WantFirstsDoeBookWholeStoriesDesireLinesHappenedIdentityReaderDirectPainfulOpeningNarrativeTitlesCollectionsExceptionalImperativesSuspiciousEloquenceUnspeakableDebutNarrators Author:Lynn Emanuel
“Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over time, I end up with a dozen or so stories, and I start to see a shape to them, how they fit together, and then I write stories that complement or extend that shape.” KnowsWritingLooksEndsStoriesTogetherFitShapesTitlesCollectionsDozenComplement Author:Brian Evenson
“I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.” ThinkingSaidStoriesReadingIndividualHonestMagazinesBeing HonestCollectionsOften IsReading Stories Author:Brian Evenson