Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

This year has already seen the publication of notable short fiction collections, including Lauren Groff’s “Brawler,” Sydney Rende’s “I Could Be Famous,” Kim Samek’s “I Am the Ghost Here,” and Senaa ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: For some folks, talking about climate change is enough to make you want to crawl under the bed. St. Paul author Ashley Shelby gets that. She ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

Here’s something I can’t say about too many authors: I remember where I was the first time I read a short story by Thisbe Nissen. And I remember how quickly I sought out the original University of ...

There are five Stephen King books that compile various novellas he's written, like Four Past Midnight and Different Seasons, ...

“An Imprint of Evil and Other Hauntings” is available now in both eBook and paperback format. • Genre: FICTION / Horror • Release Date: Jan 1, 2026 • ISBN [Pocket Book]: 978-1-0690862-6-6 • ISBN [5” x ...

A new voice in Southern literature is emerging this spring with "Hellions," a shorty story collection from Columbia-based author Julia Elliot. This collection, publishing April 15, already has ...

LONDON (AP) — Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Heart Lamp,” a collection of 12 short stories written over a period of ...

Marina Brown’s "The Gentlemen of Verona: 20 Stories for Grownups" (Gilberte Publishing 2024) is a brilliant collection of short stories that once again demonstrate Brown’s tremendous range of subjects ...

A central Iowa English professor’s debut collection of short stories is being released today and it’s an atypical collection since it reads more like a novel. Marc Dickinson, who teaches creative ...