Famous Short Story

Gerald Elias: Building a community through writing - Salt Lake Tribune Gerald Elias: Building a community through writing - Salt Lake Tribune Posted: 31 Mar 2020 11:16 AM PDT You try to keep busy. You try to stay positive. But after a period of extended confinement, on any level, it's easy to become bored and dispirited. No restaurants, no shopping, no sporting events. No work! What to do? I consider myself lucky. My cupboard is well-stocked and I'm comfortable with a lot of alone time. Writing. Practicing the violin. Watching the news on PBS, mysteries on Netflix. Cooking. I've been doing all those things for years. I try to avoid too much thumb twiddling. I was working on "Cloudy With a Chance of Murder," the next book in my Daniel Jacobus mystery series , thinking about how writing keeps me engaged. Kept my mind off the 24-7 coronavirus news cycle and off of strategies to shop at the supermarket without dyi...

Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon - The New York Times Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon - The New York Times Posted: 30 Mar 2020 10:34 AM PDT When the playwright and filmmaker Kathleen Collins's short stories were published in 2016, nearly 30 years after her death in 1988, they were called a " revelation ." The stories, deeply moving and autobiographical, had been locked in a trunk untouched for decades, along with a trove of other work, until Collins's daughter, Nina Lorez Collins, took on the task of bringing them to light. At first, Ms. Collins said, she thought no one would publish these "literary short stories by an unknown dead black woman." But in 2016, Ecco released them in a collection titled "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?," which was met with widespread acclaim . Elizabeth Alexander, in the book's introd...