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The title of the collection takes its influence from Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, losing to Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son. Englander's collection was awarded the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
The creation and study of the short story as a medium began to emerge as an academic discipline due to Blanche Colton Williams' "groundbreaking work on structure and analysis of the short story" [25]: 128 and her publication of A Handbook on Short Story Writing (1917), described as "the first practical aid to growing young writers that was put ...
A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. [1] It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length ...
"The Guest" (French: L'Hôte) is a short story by the French writer Albert Camus. It was first published in 1957 as part of a collection entitled Exile and the Kingdom (L'exil et le royaume).
The Test" (German: "Die Prüfung") is a short story by Franz Kafka that comprises a conversation between two men. The titular test, which has been described as an exercise in "question questioning", [ 1 ] is a mental exercise by one of the conversants, who sees whether the other behaves the way he expects.
The story is about Jack, a first-generation American son of a white American father and a Chinese immigrant mail-order bride mother. As a child, Jack is enchanted by his mother's magical ability to make origami paper animals come to life. These paper creatures play with him, comfort him, and become a vivid representation of the intimate bond he ...
"The Storm" is a short story written by the American writer Kate Chopin in 1898. The story takes place during the 19th century in the South of the United States, where storms are frequent and dangerous. It did not appear in print in Chopin's lifetime, but it was published in The Complete Works of Kate Chopin in 1969. [1]