For readers seeking serious literary fiction that delivers both intellectual stimulation and emotional depth without ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1.Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz Jill Gutowitz's debut essay collection has solidified her own place in the lesbian canon, ...

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 ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

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Few contemporary writers capture the quiet violences of everyday life as sharply as Anita Nair. In her latest short story ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades. In her debut short story ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: For some folks, talking about climate change is enough to make you want to crawl under the bed. St. Paul author Ashley Shelby gets that. She ...