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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

James’ third novel and brilliant anticolonial critique (also a National Book Award longlist nominee) deploys a large cast of British and Indian characters. But its protagonist is a machine: an ...

Each year, Christie encourages local readers, book stores and libraries to celebrate short fiction on the first day of winter with local events or by simply curling up to enjoy a good story.

The tragedy is obvious. Twenty-two-year-old Diane Oliver, from Charlotte, educated at the North Carolina Women’s College (UNC-Greensboro), a prodigious talent at the famed University of Iowa Writers’ ...

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 ...

Migrant Valley, one of America's most hidden regions –though it's right there at the side of the highway for anyone to see– is vividly portrayed in Manuel Muñoz's new short story collection "The ...

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 ...