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 ...

The award-winning writer discusses some of her favorite story collections and why they’ve stuck with her.

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 ...

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 ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

Brawler” is a knockout. This new short story collection from award-winning Gainesville writer Lauren Groff is her eighth book; her last story collection, “Florida” (2018), won wide acclaim, and this ...

“I think for me it’s about playfulness. … I guess the thing I always fear is rigidity or getting stuck, and stories were just an opportunity to think differently, think about different kinds of ...

In the landscape of contemporary Omani fiction, Mahmoud al Rahbi stands out as one of the writers who has shaped the short ...