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Diana Grillo Stories Tackle Writhing Family Dynamics

The challenge of a good short story is the ability to convey complicated ideas and feelings to the reader in a limited amount of pages. Diana Grillo, author of An Accidental Murder and Other Stories, manages to easily draw sympathy from readers for her struggling characters, diving straight into the…
Rebecca Proulx
March 26, 2019
Fiction

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

Her Body and Other Parties: The New “Handmaid’s Tale?”

Watch out world. Carmen Maria Macho’s award-winning collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) will become a television series. Her phantasmagoric short stories, all about sex and shifting genders, are coming to a small screen near you. In development for FX, the series will be written by Gina Welch, known…
Joanna Poncavage
December 28, 2018
Fiction

Feel Like an Outsider? You’re Not Alone

I haven’t read a lot of short stories and when the publisher asked me to take a look at We Love Anderson Cooper (Celadon Books) I was happy to do so…the title made me smile and when the book arrived I was increasingly motivated by the great looking cover! A teenage…
Jennifer Blankfein
June 12, 2019
Fiction

Here’s Why Edgar Allan Poe Still Matters

Celebrating the death rather than the birthday of the master of the macabre, is only fitting. On this day October 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40 after he was found in a gutter on a side street in Baltimore, Maryland. Some people say he died…
Matt Gillick
October 7, 2016
Author SpotlightFiction

Julie Zuckerman on Her Linked Short Story Collection “The Book of Jeremiah”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-book-of-jeremiah-julie-zukerman.jpg With a healthy dose of Jewish tradition, a little Yiddish, and deep, very real characters, author Julie Zuckerman treats us to The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53), a story of a complex life well lived, spanning from the 1930s through the first decade of the 2000s. Through 13 linked stories that…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 12, 2020
MiscellanyPodcasts

Writer’s Bone: My Old Faithful Author Yang Huang

In 2013, Sean Tuohy met Daniel Ford at a Halloween party and they immediately hit it off. The Writer’s Bone podcast wasn’t born on that exact night, but they were able to discuss some of their favorite things like writing, screenwriting, books, movies, comedy, and comic books. Daniel and Sean feel that…
BookTrib
April 24, 2018