Famous Short Story

Author Marylee MacDonald Releases New Literary Short Story - openPR Author Marylee MacDonald Releases New Literary Short Story - openPR 10 New Books We Recommend This Week - The New York Times How one high school wrestling team dramatically increased participation by putting kids first - USA TODAY Author Marylee MacDonald Releases New Literary Short Story - openPR Posted: 31 Jan 2020 07:14 AM PST Body Language Author Marylee MacDonald Releases New Literary Short Story Collection - Body Language Author Marylee MacDonald is pleased to announce the upcoming release of her literary short story collection entitled, Body Language. Scheduled for release by Grand Canyon Press on April 17, 2020, the book is already receiving rave reviews from readers and reviewers. Life-changing moments. Impassioned encounters. Twelve stories at the crossroads of heartbreak and desire. When a long-lost love comes knocking, a loyally wedded r...

10 New Books We Recommend This Week - The New York Times 10 New Books We Recommend This Week - The New York Times Posted: 30 Jan 2020 09:48 AM PST Ask any reading group: People disagree about books all the time. But it's rare for a novel to be quite as polarizing, or as controversial in the wider culture, as Jeanine Cummins's new book, "American Dirt," has turned out to be. Essentially a narcothriller — it's about a Mexican woman and her son fleeing to the border to escape a murderous drug lord — the book is already a huge hit. Oprah Winfrey recently picked it for her book club, and it enters this week's best-seller list at No. 1. But it has also been widely condemned, on political grounds by readers who say it resorts to stereotypes and exploits current events to make a fetish out of trauma, and on aesthetic grounds by readers who say it's just badly written. (That's where The Times's critic Parul S...

My love affair with short stories - Deccan Herald My love affair with short stories - Deccan Herald Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:00 AM PST If a novel is an elaborate meal of several courses, a short story is delectable street food— sharp, tangy, spicy and delicious. It may not be a full meal to satiate your hunger, but it certainly tingles your taste buds and leaves you asking for more. It's a difference between a delicious meal in a five-star hotel and yummy pani poori or egg rolls eaten on the roadside. Each has its place and each is enjoyable in its own way. My love affair with short stories began when I was in high school. We had a library period every week when we would have to sit in the library and read for forty minutes. Forty minutes is hardly enough time to read a novel, so I would reach for a book of short stories. There were huge anthologies of stories, some of them entitled— 'Stories for Girls,' 'Stories for Boys' ...

Alexa, read me a story: Audio content for kids on the rise - Minneapolis Star Tribune Alexa, read me a story: Audio content for kids on the rise - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 28 Jan 2020 04:25 AM PST NEW YORK — Melanie Musson in Belgrade, Montana, does a lot of driving with her four girls. Juggling a broad age range, 1 to 9, she's forever searching for ways to keep them all entertained without relying entirely on video. While she still adores paper and tablet books for her kids, Musson said: "I think when they hear without seeing, they have to make up visuals in their heads. That's so good. They have to be engaged and get more out of it." There are plenty of quality audiobooks, podcasts and music for the young, she noted, but weeding through thousands of selections and jumping from platform to platform is a challenge since audio content has exploded over the last few years. Dad blogger Balint Horvath in Zurich ag...