Articles about short stories

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris

3 Mar 2014
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

These stories are clever and funny. The book makes me think of a grown-up version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, without the pictures. Actually that probably makes it sound far less good than it really is.

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Break it Down — Lydia Davis

2 Sep 2010

This is a collection of short stories; but mostly they are so short I would call them sketches rather than stories. Some are only a paragraph or two. Quite dense and evocative. Some are quite affecting, such as the title story.

Thanks to Leslie for lending me this on a long plane journey many years ago. (In 2000, if you must know.)

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Murder in the Dark — Margaret Atwood

27 Feb 2003

A collection of varied short pieces. Some hilarious, some strange, but almost all beatufully written. Excellent for those with a short attention span. Hmm, I wonder what’s for lunch?

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