Short Stories
Ed Wood's Erotic, Violent Fiction Is Back in Print for the First Time in 40 Years
The infamous filmmaker's prose has long been forgotten, but a new collection from OR Books should introduce a generation to Wood's quirks, obsessions, and drunken brilliance.
'The Mystery Is in the Ordinary, Uncool Things' - An Interview with Author Juliet Escoria
Reading Juliet Escoria's Black Cloud feels as if you are reading a diary that someone wrote with the intention of it one day being found, for both her and your benefit. In other words, it is intimate.
The Joy of Being Elusive and Unstable: An Interview with Author Rivka Galchen
What one moment seems to me like nothing, the next moment, through Rivka Galchen’s eyes, becomes the world. I think one could ask nothing more from a her collection of stories.
'Praying Drunk' with Author Kyle Minor
Kyle Minor's short-story collection Praying Drunk came out Friday. I had seen the very positive reviews, and I felt like staying in bed and reading. When I got to the end of the second story, I was bawling. Not sort of softly choked up, or...
We Spoke with Laura van den Berg About 'The Isle of Youth'
This was a great year for the short story. For me, the best part of short stories in 2013 was Laura van den Berg's second collection, The Isle of Youth. I emailed with the author about existential film noir, MacGuffins, and the strangeness of...
Russian Roller-Coaster
They say: you made up the everywhere God or read it in books. But actually they think I’m an idiot and made it up so I could tell them about it. How clever. But how am I making it up when I take the phone and there’s God and he hears me?
What We Talk About When We Talk About a Couple of Carver's Short Stories
Yesterday I got roasted for a Comedy Central program that will air on Labor Day. Naturally, that made me think of Raymond Carver, the American short story writer who's regarded as one of the masters of the form, even though he isn't all that funny.
The Vast Difference
If you were reading this introduction in a literary journal, it might say something like Barry Gifford is a singular, prolific force in American letters
Six Stories
Gangemi is the author of The Volcanoes From Puebla, a criminally underappreciated title that critics like to label “transfiction” when really it’s just a damn good book.