Workshop Heretic

There are two kinds of stories I feel I can mostly skip over when I'm blogging my way through one of the big short story anthologies. On...

First, an update: I said I might have to ditch blogging about contemporary short stories in my last post. That might still happen soon, but ...

I had two thoughts during the first half of reading "The Spit of Him" by Thomas Korsgaard. First, what I thought I was reading was...

I once knew a co-worker who shared a gene with his wife that meant they had a one in four chance of passing along a very debilitating condit...

The easiest critical posts for me to write about contemporary American short stories concern stories where a lay reader might be confused wh...

(Personal update before launching into this: Obviously, my new job has slowed down my pace of posting here. I don't know yet if it will ...

Let's start with the name Sanrevelle, which is both the title of the story and the name of the woman the main character Hop falls in lov...