Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, delve into never-before-revealed...

Amor Towles revisits a character from the wonderful Rules of Civility and also offers multiple New York-set tales. Towles's evocative...

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and then turns them on their heads,...

More Bossy Short Story Love Some of my fellow readers have mentioned to me in the past that they don't seek out short stories, whether...

Keegan turns her keen eye to the small moments that transform a life in this riveting short story collection. The settings range from the...

ICYMI: Sittenfeld shapes fully realized, fascinating characters that stuck with me in the ten stories of You Think It, I'll Say It. I...

Shipstead's varied stories range from funny with an edge to darkly haunting. She builds her characters with vivid detail, and she serves...

Bossy Short Story Love Some of my fellow readers have told me in the past that they don't gravitate toward short stories, whether because...

In Jo Ann Beard's lovely essays and short stories, she writes honestly and beautifully about moments large and small, from the...

King builds each story within Five Tuesdays in Winter to be full, rich, and full of pain and poignancy. I loved this collection. In Lily...

Spyra's humor is edgy, dark, and far from politically correct as she plays up absurd and disturbing scenarios in the name of satire. This...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a bizarre, dark set of short stories by a former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer, Jen Spyra;...

The various Sarahs of Cohen's stories take on frequently unorthodox searches for self and meaning--while coping with versions of the...

ICYMI: MacArthur's stories, set in rural Vermont, are tragic, beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. MacArthur, who is from Vermont...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading what may be a perfect summer read with plenty of nostalgia; a dark, mythology-filled mystery; and...

There is so much to unpack here; Evans's story themes are often haunting, always powerful, and wonderfully nuanced. She thought the...

01 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. His father's gone, his mother's in jail, and his best...

I love how Strout interlinks characters, backgrounds, and stories so gracefully, yet also allows them to stand on their own. As soon as I...