Small Wonder
Small Wonder
“I have always wondered why short stories aren’t popular in modern America. We are such busy folk, you’d think we’d jump at the chance to have our literary wisdom served in doses that fit between taking the trash to the curb and waiting for the carpool. We should favor the short story and adore the poem. But we don’t. Short-story collections rarely sell half as well as novels; they are never blockbusters. They are hardly ever even blockdenters. From what I gather, the typical American reader (le...t’s call him Fred) would sooner plow through a five-hundred-page book about southern France or a boy attending wizard school or how to make home decor from roadside trash or anything before he’ll pick up a tale of the world complete in twenty pages. And I won’t even discuss what Fred will do to avoid reading poetry.
Why should this be? I enjoy the form so much that when I was invited to be the guest editor for a special story collection, forewarned that it would involve reading thousands of pages of short fiction in a tight three-month period, I decided to do it.MoreLess
Why should this be? I enjoy the form so much that when I was invited to be the guest editor for a special story collection, forewarned that it would involve reading thousands of pages of short fiction in a tight three-month period, I decided to do it.MoreLess
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