Short Stories

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 BlankfeinJune 12, 2019

Fiction

A book of histories found within objects: BookTrib talks to Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories—most recently, Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (BOA Editions, 2013). Her writing is funny, intimate, and occasionally mordant—like a conversation you wish to be included in. Sheehan has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, and the…

Jamie YourdonFebruary 20, 2014

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Delicate Short Story Collection Celebrates Childhood Memories Left Behind

We’ve all heard the saying, “You can’t go home again,” and most of us know what it's like to go back to a home that has changed in our absence. It can be startling to return to a place that’s practically unrecognizable, and to no longer be able to physically…

Mckenzie TozanOctober 17, 2022

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Familial and Systemic Struggle in Story of Ultimate Survival

If I Survive You (MCD Books) by Jonathan Escoffery is a collection of interwoven short stories that reads like a novel, exploring the triumphs and tragedies of a Jamaican family that immigrates to Miami in a bid to escape increasing violence in their native country. Escoffery has already garnered critical…

Michael FerrySeptember 30, 2022

Author Spotlight Fiction

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 BlankfeinAugust 12, 2020

Listicles Miscellany Podcasts Potpourri - Featured

National Short Story Day: Listen to Your Literature With These Podcast Highlights

As we await the biggest (at least commercial) holiday of the year, take a breather to celebrate another holiday. And this one is timed perfectly, because you really are taking a perfectly-sized brief break to honor it: National Short Story Day! Speaking of timing, this sneaky little devil intentionally falls…

BookTribDecember 21, 2021

Miscellany Podcasts

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…

BookTribApril 24, 2018

Podcasts

Writer’s Bone Podcast: Novelist Marc Cameron on the Future and his Newest Tom Clancy Book

Marc Cameron, author of the Jericho Quinn series and the recently published Tom Clancy Power and Empire, talks to Sean Tuohy about writing under a legend’s name, his “unplugged” writing process, and his future plans. https://www.amazon.com/Clancy-Power-Empire-Jack-Novel/dp/0735215898 Author of the New York Times bestselling Jericho Quinn Thriller series, Marc Cameron’s short…

Daniel FordDecember 18, 2017

Miscellany Podcasts

Writer’s Bone: Friday Morning Coffee with Joe Hill

BookTrib.com recently added Writer’s Bone to our weekly features. Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy have been bringing us weekly podcasts of discussions they have with writers about the craft of writing and what motivates them to tell a good story. Today, you can enjoy a Friday Morning Coffee podcast featuring Joe Hill. In…

Daniel FordNovember 24, 2017