News and insights on our favorite niche form – linked short stories
… a.k.a. short story cycles a.k.a. novels-in-stories a.k.a. many more …
REVIEWS AND NEW COLLECTIONS
Ananda Lima’s fiction debut, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil: ” … disorientation is everywhere in Craft. In the first passage, we learn that our third-person narrator (known only as “the writer”) slept with the Devil at a Halloween party in 1999 …”
An Absence of Cousins review: ‘it does Segal a disservice’” … her publisher has released An Absence of Cousins, a collection of interlinked short stories originally published in The New Yorker…. despite Segal’s abundant skill, they felt like a relic.”
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection (from LitHub): “This is a book about, among other things, loneliness, the pitfalls and pratfalls of identity, ostracization, masturbation, the more deranged languages of the internet, toxic affirmation in the groupchat, and the many reasons you should never buy a corvid as a response to romantic rejection. (If that list doesn’t convince you to read it, I’m not sure our interests overlap.)”
AWARDS AND PRIZES
Bloomington Writers Highlighted in 2024 Indiana Authors Awards Shortlist: “Scott Russell Sanders, is nominated for Small Marvels, a novel-in-stories set in the fictional town of Limestone, Indiana. The book explores the peculiar happenings in this small town through the lens of a local jack-of-all-trades, bringing to life the magical realism of the Midwest.”
Prasanthi Ram wins Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction: “Published in late 2023, the short story cycle about generations of a Tamil Brahmin family dispersed across Singapore, Sydney, New York and Connecticut is the 32-year-old’s debut.”
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Reuniting with Strangers by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio: “Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio … among the five Canadian shortlisted authors for the 2024 Toronto Book Awards …The characters in Reuniting with Strangers are all dealing with feelings of displacement and estrangement caused as a result of migrating to Canada seeking opportunity.”
That’s it for this time – see you in the next news bulletin!
– Chris
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