This year’s “Best American Short Stories” collection features New England-based editors, authors, literary journals, and ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

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 ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Beth Shapiro compiled this month’s selections. In ...

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 ...

Explore T. Janakiraman’s poignant short stories celebrating music and its emotional depths in this captivating collection.

Sam Ryan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who perfected the art of the contemporary short story, died on Monday, May 13, Penguin Random House Canada has confirmed. She was 92 years old. In ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...