

Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Bossy Short Story Love Some of you bookworms have told me in the past that you don't like or at least don't gravitate toward short...
Oct 17


Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
In Curtis Sittenfeld's wonderful second short-story collection, we meet imperfect characters, often fortysomething women, in moments...
Mar 18


Review of Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, delve into never-before-revealed...
Oct 31, 2024


Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
Amor Towles revisits a character from the wonderful Rules of Civility and also offers multiple New York-set tales. Towles's evocative...
Aug 1, 2024


Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and then turns them on their heads,...
Dec 13, 2023
