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Mother by Grace Paley   One day I was listening to the AM radio. I heard a song: "Oh, I Long to See My Mother in the Doorway." By...

In this week's issue of The New Yorker (the summer fiction issue) I read an essay by Haruki Murakami about his start as a writer and h...

I'm back.  The last few weeks have been busy as I've been working hard to warp up my thesis and finish graduate school. I turned in ...

For those in the New York area, Shepard will be reading from Like You'd Understand, Anyway at the Tribeca Barnes and Noble  this Wednes...

I first met  Jim Shepard  at the Tin House Writers workshop, last July. I had no idea who he was, though his name sounded vaguely familiar. ...

No, not another of her stories. Not so soon, anyway.  But there is exciting news. I'm interviewing Amy Hempel for my thesis! If she allo...

In the Cemetery where Al Jolson is Buried is a short story that I go back to time and again. With each read, a new layer, a new element, so...

I decided to write a blog about short stories because I love to read them and I think that more people should give them a chance.  Within th...