From surrealist romps to heartfelt examinations of family, love, and grief, these collections prove great things can come in small packages.

May is Short Story Month and CBC Books has compiled a list of Canadian short story collections to celebrate. From speculative ...

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 ...

Jeremy has more than 2500 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

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 ...

Get ready to be scared!

Once We Were Wildlife proves Inga Simpson is just as masterful writing short fiction as novels.

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 ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Beth Shapiro compiled this month’s selections. In ...

Almost half a century has passed since Dermot Bolger’s name appeared in print for the first time. Since then, there have been ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades. In her debut short story ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bora Chung, author of "Cursed Bunny," a collection of offbeat, surreal short stories newly translated from Korean into English. A girl whose brother feeds on her blood, ...