Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A ...

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

American short fiction has always thrived on intensity. Within a few pages, it can capture a lifetime, a heartbreak, or a ...

Hadley Franklin has been named the winner of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2023 for "Falling", a story exploring “the strange celebrity of death and the exploitation of vulnerability ...

Zilla Jones is a Winnipeg author and has been a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize on four occasions, and the CBC Nonfiction Prize in 2024. She's also won many literary awards including the ...

George Eliot’s novel *Middlemarch*. This work, spanning two volumes and 1,416 pages in its paperback translation, is a true ...

Imagine being at the DMV, but instead of waiting in line with other grumpy people while idly scrolling through your phone, you can read a short story — a nice poem, perhaps. French publisher Short ...

Writer Anthony Doerr won the seventh annual Story Prize for short fiction on Wednesday for "Memory Wall," his collection of memory-themed tales. Doerr, from Boise, Idaho, won $20,000 for his book of ...

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Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A ...

Alice Munro, the Canadian literary icon and Nobel laureate, died at the age of 92 at her home in Port Hope, Ontario. Her works, including "Dear Life," "Too Much Happiness," "The View from Castle Rock, ...