short stories

The precursor to both Stephen King and mommy bloggers alike, the late Shirley Jackson—you may know her story ’The Lottery’—haunts us still

In short stories, most only a few pages long, Peacock recounts the life of the alphabet.

Prizes and critics are in love with short stories these days. It’s those pesky readers . . .

Munro’s editor Douglas Gibson on their decades-long relationship, where understatement was everything

From 2013: Inside the remarkable triumph of the world’s greatest storyteller

Book by Karen Russell

Plus, hockey star Alexander Ovechkin, a new memoir from the author of  ’Prisoner of Tehran’, and making sense of Stephen Harper