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Nonprofit buys writer Elizabeth Bishop's Key West home

Posted on 11/13/2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Bookworms might want to ask for airfare to Key West for their Christmas present this year. Poet and short-story writer...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Literary tourism, Poetry, Short story, The New York Times, Women in literature

Posted on 10/24/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Literary Hub has a short story to share from an award-winning author’s first collection. “Salt Slow,” released earlier this month,...

Tagged As: Free reads, Short story, Women in literature

Posted on 10/17/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Literary Hub has another free short story for us today, written by Eka Kurniawan and translated by Annie Tucker. “Caronang”...

Tagged As: Literary Hub, Literature in translation, Short story

Posted on 10/16/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Literary Hub has a free short story from Benjamin Percy today. “The Uncharted” comes from Percy’s newest collection, Suicide Woods,...

Tagged As: Free reads, Literary Hub, Short story

Posted on 10/15/2019 at 01:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Count author Elizabeth Strout among those whose characters have minds of their own. After winning a Pulitzer Prize for Olive...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, NPR, Short story

Posted on 10/02/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Congratulations to Jo Lloyd, whose short story “The Invisible” has won the BBC National Short Story Award. Lloyd will receive...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Free reads, Short story, The Guardian

Posted on 09/10/2019 at 02:56 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

For those of you not reading (sneakily or openly) The Testaments or The Institute today, we have an alternate reading...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Free reads, Literary Hub, NPR, Short story

Posted on 08/24/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Perhaps you’re stuck in a huge line while running errands along with the rest of the world right now or...

Categories: Free ebooks

Tagged As: Free reads, Short story

Posted on 08/07/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Grab a madeleine to celebrate — nine short stories and novellas by Marcel Proust will be published for the first...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, Short story

Posted on 08/05/2019 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Today we’re interviewing Anna Rashbrook, who writes short stories and tales of all length about horses. Born in Winchester, England,...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Short story