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Review: The Short Stories that Make Up The Best Small Fictions 2015

The Best Small Fictions 2015 Editor Tara L. Masih Super-short stories—variously named flash fiction, haibun or iStories—have exploded in popularity. Where should newbies start? With Best Small Fictions 2015 (Queen’s Ferry Press, October 6), the inaugural volume of a new series edited by Tara L. Masih. From 105 finalists, guest…
Rebecca Foster
September 30, 2015
Fiction

Paulo Coelho’s “The Archer”: A Parable of Enlightenment

  Paulo Coelho has produced some twenty books in his lifetime, including bestselling masterpieces such as The Alchemist. Now in his 70s, he is perhaps Brazil’s most celebrated contemporary author. His most recent book, The Archer (Knopf), translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, is inspiring as ever.  The story…
Gisèle Lewis
November 10, 2020
Fiction

Melissa Falcon Field and the Risks of Social Media

Melissa Falcon Field alights on the literary fiction scene with her spell-binding debut novel, What Burns Away (Sourcebooks Landmark, January 2015). In a delicately woven tale of temptation and loyalty, new mom and protagonist Claire Spruce’s high school sweetheart resurfaces via social media at a vulnerable time in her life.…
Angela Palm
January 1, 2015
Fiction

Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s “Truthtelling” Puts the Magic in Magical Realism

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Untitled-design-13.jpg Lynne Sharon Schwartz has an intuitive ability to write with soul and substance. In Truthtelling (Delphinium), her new collection of twenty-five tight short stories, Schwartz moves effortlessly between realism and fantasy. Her characters are not so quirky as the things that happen to them, and her introspective writing lets…
Laura Newman
October 6, 2020
Fiction

Progress and Tradition Go Head-to-Head in Indian Political Thriller, “A Nest for Lalita”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/booktrib_KenLanger_ANestForLalita.jpg “Langer’s prose is lucid and wonderfully detailed … is extremely successful at bringing the time and place to vivid life.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— The streets of Sompur, India, were not for the faint of heart. Narrow roads congested by cars, trucks, rickshaws and livestock made navigation tricky under…
Chelsea Ciccone
October 20, 2020

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