short story
noun
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Pynchon is the author of several novels and one short-story collection.
The National Book Awards Longlist for FictionSeptember 19, 2013
His short-story collection This Is How You Lose Her was a finalist for the National Book Award.
A short-story writer (his “The Evils of Spain” could be read along with this book), Pritchett was a master of compression.
She picks five short-story collections that have inspired her.
The tales in Hot Pink also show the influence of short-story wizards George Saunders and Steven Millhauser.
Must Read New Fiction: ‘Arcadia,’ ‘Men in Space,’ ‘The O’Briens,’ ‘Hot Pink’Chloë Schama, Jacob Silverman, Wendy Smith, Daniel Roberts
March 23, 2012
Historical Examples of short story
Finally the present day dawned and with it what we call the short-story.
The Short-storyWilliam Patterson Atkinson
You and your agony are to the chance acquaintance a short-story, not a serial.
The Rest Hollow MysteryRebecca N. Porter
His, too, was the short-story route to fame, and Iowa was his field.
Prairie GoldVarious
Many of her admirers hold that the short-story is her especial forte.
Kentucky in American Letters, v. 2 of 2John Wilson Townsend
Honestly, it is but a dog's life, that of the short-story writer.
The Man UpstairsP. G. Wodehouse