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Does anyone know the name or author of this short story: It is about a seemingly perfect society with no crime, everyone is happy. But eventually it is revealed that the society's utopia is dependant upon the enslavement of a boy who is kept in a basement. The town beats him and uses him as an outlet for their agression so that their "real" life remains an utopia. My boyfriend read this in highschool and has been searching it out. His birthday is soon and I would love to surprise him with it. Thanks!

On the short story

Ang Lee's adaptation of Proulx's masterful story is leading a revival of interest in the short story. Okay, I made that up. But the wee dear things are getting some good press.

The Irish short fiction writer Frank O'Connor once noted that the difference between the short story and the novel is "the difference between pure and applied storytelling". The short story is the adaptation of the primitive art of communicating experience by telling a tale. Walter Benjamin, in his essay The Storyteller, lamented the fall in value of experience, attributing it to dependence upon information as communication. Information, he says, "doesn't survive the moment in which it was new". Narrative achieves an amplitude that information lacks: it can live forever.


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In Pharoah's Army: Memories of a Lost War is good, too, but I think the best of his memoir stories is in the anthology about Carver - Carver Country(?) Sharing addiction stories on a road trip....

Don't know Quammen. I'll put him on the list.

I do like Tobias Wolff; his early story "Hunters in the Snow" cracks me up, but it's also worthwhile looking at his book This Boy's Life at the same time as his brother Geoff's memoir The Duke of Deception; one kid with mother, one kid with father. Another American fiction-nonfiction writer is David Quammen; his story "Walking Out" is amazing. I like Joyce's "The Dead" because my mother lived two doors down from that house on Usher's Island in Dublin. The house was in ruins, but is now an art gallery and you can step inside and see the stairs where Nora Barnacle stood and where Joyce's father stood and carved the goose.

audio book makers rattling books here in newfoundland has a lot of short fiction in their small catalogue

A couple of overlooked and splendid collections I'd recommend:
Andrea Barrett's Servants of the Map and Helen Simpson's Yeah Right Get a Life.

Nice to see Lisa Moore mentioned a few times. How about D.R. MacDonald?
I think I will go revisit some of the stories on the list.

J.Boutilier

...oh yeah, and great to see someone mention Pelevin. Love Pelevin.

"Counterparts" was a nice variation.

This exercise avoided the more objectionable elements of listing, partly because it made no attempt at absolute claims. It was more interesting to look for patterns. Almost everyone put some Carver or Munro on their list; no one cited Tobias Wolff (even Jarman!), and few looked to Mavis Gallant. I'm enormously partial to Gallant. I would have expected more Ford and McEwan, and it seems almost criminal that only one person mentioned "We So Seldom Look on Love". If you can't teach necrophilia fiction, why teach?

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Always been fond of "Evelina" myself. That whole book, even the stories that don't really gutsmack me, is pretty amazing. Often overlooked as a fictioneer because his non-fiction is so good is Barry Lopez. His story "The Mappist", from Light Action in the Caribbean is one of my personal favourites. Besides some obvious candidates (Borges, Kafka, Marquez) I was surprised to see so few stories and books in translation (or not, as in Emily Pohl-Weary's list). Haven't read it in years, but Guy deMaupassant's "Le Horla" is terrific. Technically a novella, but Patrick Suskind's The Pigeon is amazing, funny and morbid. And sure, they're "fairy tales", but what about Hans Christian Andersen? I don't read a whole lot of fiction in general these days and most of that is novels. I like stories, but I almost have to remind myself that they exist for some reason. All of these lists makes me feel like I'm really missing out. I did recently read Goran Simic's excellent new collection Yesterday's People, which has some disturbing and darkly funny/absurd stories of war and migration. Mark Jarman's 19 Knives I've been meaning to get my hands on for some time, not only because I know Mark but because so many people I talk to tell me it's required reading. I wonder how much short fiction's available in audiobook format; seems a perfect fit for the suburban commuter.

Despite the obvious objections to them, I Love Lists! Two things to say about this: Almost everyone felt (almost reluctantly) compelled to include Dubliners. Those who selected only one story from the collection usually picked either "Araby" or "The Dead," choices which even those who made them admitted were a little tired and cliched. I was therefore interested to see that Brent Robillard chose "Counterparts" instead. Since they are frequently anthologized and taught, I've read "Araby" and "The Dead" several times, but my one reading of "Counterparts" still haunts me to this day. Secondly, I was glad to see a Zelazny story on Peter's list. I've "outgrown" my adolescent fascination with most celebrated Science Fiction and Fantasy writers--they just don't thrill me like they useta...but I still read Zelazny and get that chill at the base of my spine.

Short Story 101
The Danforth Review asked a bunch of Canuck writers what short stories they would teach in an introductory course. I avoided the question by proposing a different course, but other writers had some nice choices -- both expected and unexpected.

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Biblioasis and Page & Turners Bookstores are proud to announce the winner of the first Annual Metcalf-Rooke award. The winner is:


Patricia Young, for her short story collection Airstream.

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The judges for this year's award were John Metcalf and Leon Rooke.

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If you haven't bought Pete's story yet (see post below), I suggest you do. It's great and the process is utterly painless. My Visa virtually sighed in relief. That's it Geordie-boy... a few more charges like that one... I can handle 50 cents...


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The dwindling fiction in magazines

In a spin-off essay from the Naipaul article above, Rachel Donadio asks whether the slow disappearance of fiction from magazines is reflecting a new social reality or creating one.


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Pshah! Who are these nobodies?

The Guardian offers new short fiction by a bunch of hacks like Proulx, Ford, Kunzru, Tóibín, et al. (From PFW)


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/m55 - The University of Toronto Quarterly did two special issues on the Short Story in Canada, both in English and in French. The contents blended academic essays on the form with shorter "writer statements" by Canadian writers and journalists - Sharon Butala, Aritha van Herk, Greg Hollingshead, Val Ross among others in English (my memory of the French authors is sketchier - Hughes Corriveau[?] for one). I can't remember the volume numbers off hand, but they'd be the fall issues for 1999 and 2000.

I don't know if the Geddes book DJW refers to is _The Art of Fiction_, but that anthology also contains some interesting 'craft' statements by Canadian authors (and most of the short fiction luminaries).

I believe Mercury published a collection of interviews with fiction writers a couple of years back too, but I don't remember how many were short story writers per se.

Thanks.

I concur on the New Quarterly, Michael. (I also have a copy of it for sale). It's wonderful. But Metcalf has edited some good anthologies with criticism. Writers Talking, How Stories Mean, to name but two. You should also dip into Volleys, which centres in large part on the issue of the place of the short story in Canada (along with a healthy dose of nationalist rancour). Tim Struthers also edited a volume of essays that delat, if memory serves, primarily with the short story: I can't remember the name of it at the moment, though it is published by Red Kite Press, and is still available. (I have a copy at home: will check.) Terry Rigelhof will have a collection of essays on young Canadian writers coming out, mainly short fiction writers, later next year. I think even Gary Geddes did something on the story in Canada.

The New Quarterly Special Double Issue:
Wild Writers We Have Known: A Celebration of the Canadian Short Story and Story Writers. Volume XXI, Numbers 2 & 3

Question:

Anyone know of any essays, books or other kind of reportage on "the short story in Canada"?

I'm not interested so much in historical overviews as critiques of the craft.

Think something like Starnino's A LOVER'S QUARRELL except about short stories.

As far as I know, there are no books like that.

Any essay or anything else that folks know about? Maybe introductions to anthologies?

In anticipation,
Thanks

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Alice Munro makes the Times's top 100 most influential people list. Now all she needs is the cover of the Rolling Stone and, like, Macleans. Move over Checkhov.

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Short stories in short omnibus

The NYT looks at eight short story collections in one short article.* Now that's coverage. I was looking at the end of the bit that read, "Oh yeah? You're lucky with cover this penny ante shit at all, Mr. Midlist. Shoe's untied. Pffst! Sucker."



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The short story dilema

Heather Birrell offers some words of wisdom on the short story.

Part of the problem with the popularity of short story collections seems to be in their presentation and packaging. With no single kernel of plot or thematic hook, a grouping of stories is frequently shoehorned for marketing purposes into a unity or sameness by an editor.

This is unfortunate, since a well-conceived collection's variety of voices — its grab-bag quality — is what attracts writers and discerning readers alike. Annual story anthologies can offer not only the cream of the year's crop but also a wide assortment of unpublished (in book form) goodies, culled from magazines large and small. The only directives spring from the editors' particular tastes and appetites.

See also Jonathan Bennett's defence of the short story, here on Bookninja.



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Who's afraid of the short short?
Meanwhile, not everyone happy is about micro stories. Story South has a great piece about the state of the short short and writing workshops, with some delicious links (my fave: "The Poetry Workshop and Its Discontents").

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Men and Cartoons
I really liked some of Jonathan Lethem's early work, such as Gun, with Occasional Music and As She Climbed Across the Table. I was less interested in Motherless Brooklyn, which I thought lacked the original vision of his more "fantastic" work. His new collection of stories, Men and Cartoons, seems a return to the earlier work, so I think I'll check it out. Jay McInerney doesn't seem to care for it though. I always liked that book that McInerney wrote.

In the better stories, the high-concept ideas can turn in unexpected and sometimes dangerous directions, but in the lesser ones they act only in the service of a punch line. Such is the case in ''The Spray,'' where a couple come home to find their apartment robbed. The police arrive, equipped with a spray that reveals missing objects, including the stolen fax machine, jewelry box and television. When the cops leave a can of the stuff behind, the couple spray each other, only to reveal past lovers clinging to their bodies. Cute. Next!

Salon's also got a clip of Lethem reading from Men and Cartoons.

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The short story: defended again

You'd think it was under attack.

What draws a writer to the short story? It's important to remember that the story as we know it is a comparatively recent phenomenon. The arrival of mass-market magazine publication and a new generation of literate middle-class readers in the mid- to late-19th century saw a boom in the short story in the US and Europe that lasted maybe 100 years. Many writers were initially drawn to the form as a way of making money, particularly in America: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe all subsidised their less well-remunerated novel-writing careers by writing stories. In the 1920s, F Scott Fitzgerald was paid $4,000 for a story by the Saturday Evening Post (a vast sum today - multiply by 10 to get some idea of a comparison). Even John Updike, in the 1950s, reckoned he could support his wife and young family by the sale of five or six stories a year to the New Yorker. Times have changed. While magazines such as the New Yorker, Esquire and Playboy pay handsomely, more than any British equivalent, no one today could replicate Updike's achievement.

Alas, today's reader doesn't have the attention span for short stories. That's why people have moved on to "microfiction" -- the pizza pocket of literature.



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A defence of the short story

Like Canuck ninja Jonathan Bennett's inspiring speech of last year, but longer. Charles McGrath looks at the form* that people love to hate forgetting about.

Almost no one makes a living from writing short stories anymore. ... Oddly, though, you can still make a pretty good living by teaching other people how to write short stories. The form survives - and even thrives, in a forced, hothouse sort of way - because it has become the instructional medium of choice in most of our writing programs. The majority of people who enroll in these programs want to be novelists, but novels don't lend themselves very readily to the workshop format, and so would-be novelists these days spend at least part of their apprenticeship working on stories. They're a little like those people who learn golf by never venturing onto a golf course but instead practicing at a driving range. The result, or so we are always being told, is a couple of generations' worth of people - a vast and somewhat underemployed army - who have been trained to write competent but profoundly uninspired short fiction that is unread except by other writers of short fiction and by the people who hire them to instruct yet more people in this arcane little craft.



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Short Focus

The NYT focusses on the allure of the short story,* including David Foster Wallace, Julian Barnes, E.L. Doctorow, and homeboy David Bezmozgis.



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Who Knew Math Could Be So Fun?

A Princeton student has proven that the sky is blue, rivers flow downhill, and bears do indeed shit in the woods.

Katherine L. Milkman, 22, decided to turn rigorous mathematical analytics on an even more mystical topic: the selection of short fiction for The New Yorker. In applying scientific metrics to an ineffable process, Ms. Milkman will no doubt set off a small, discreet tempest among a cadre of authors who would gladly saw off their (nonwriting) hand to be the next Jhumpa Lahiri, a young writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000 for her book of short stories after her work was plucked from the pile by the editors at that weekly magazine.
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According to Ms. Milkman, the number of male authors rose to 70 percent under Mr. Buford, compared with 57 percent under Mr. McGrath. She also found that Mr. Buford was much more likely to publish stories set in the New York area: the number of stories set in the mid-Atlantic region rose to 37 percent under Mr. Buford, compared with 19 percent under Mr. McGrath. The study also found that the first-person voice rose mightily under Mr. Buford, which may reflect the growth of memoir in the 90's more than anything else.

Under both editors the fiction in the magazine took as its major preoccupations sex, relationships, death, family and travel. Mr. Buford was relatively more interested in sex, a topic in 47 percent of the stories he published as opposed to 35 percent under Mr. McGrath. Mr. McGrath's authors tended to deal with one of the occasional consequences of that act, children, more frequently than Mr. Buford's writers: 36 percent under Mr. McGrath, 26 percent under Mr. Buford. (History, homosexuality and politics all tied for the attentions of Mr. Buford at a lowly 4 percent.)

So, it's now obvious why you can't get in. Corruption, plain and simple (and the fact that you aren't remotely sexy enough). It has nothing to do with talent. You're a genius, don't ever forget that. Keep sending your stories to people who appreciate good writing like yours... B&A... um... B&A... and... um... Oberon.



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Ninja, I read that essay you're referring to ("Short of Glorious", at http://www.affdoublethink.com/archives/011943.php). It made me think of how not even five years ago, both Playboy and Esquire had literary editors listed in the masthead. Now we have Zoetrope's editor Krista Halverson admitting that she doesn't read the short stories her magazine publishes (though perhaps she is only referring to the pieces entered for the contests?)

(yes, I subscribe to Playboy, and I read the articles. I also use my car for other things besides driving to the strip club.)

And while we are on the topic, I'm still waiting for that list of euphemisms for genitalia from your copyediting days at Harlequin, Peter. By the way, I read script for Alliance for a while and at one point they were producing these steamy Harlequin romances. Maybe I read some of your edits??

Yeah, the short story does have an obvious pornographic appeal, coming so fast as it does…

Whatever Happened to the Good Old Days of the Short Story?
Yeah, I used to hide them under my pillow as a kid, but then I discovered cable.

"What kind of man reads Playboy?" an ad for the magazine once asked. The answer was a man who liked to read. Alongside airbrushed nubiles, one found fiction by Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Italo Calvino. Could the "readers" of Maxim even pronounce such names?

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Whatever Happened to the Good Old Days of the Short Story?
Yeah, I used to hide them under my pillow as a kid, but then I discovered cable.

"What kind of man reads Playboy?" an ad for the magazine once asked. The answer was a man who liked to read. Alongside airbrushed nubiles, one found fiction by Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Italo Calvino. Could the "readers" of Maxim even pronounce such names?

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Is It True Short Stories Don't Sell?
Or is just that publishers don't sell short stories? Either way, apparently things are worse for short story writers in Britain than in Canada.
"In Canada, there is a high level of national and provincial government support for short stories as a way of developing the country's writers of the future. Collections have been a standard route for making a publishing debut for writers before they go on to novels -- the reverse of the situation in Britain."

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From UTNE's special "Indie Culture" issue in a section called "Overrated/Underrated":

"Literary Genres
Overrated: The short story
Underrated: The novella

Even at its best, there's something breathless about the prestigious short story form--we're dropped into a fictional world just long enough to prepare us for the Big Moment--the betrayal, the death, the epiphany--then goodbye. The novella takes a small-scale, short-story situation and gives us more: more about the characters, more atmosphere, more breathing room. Great novellas like Kafka's Metamorphosis, Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych, and Saul Bellow's Seize the Day feel like fully developed novels, even though they may only depict a single day--or a single moment. The novella form, invented in Germany two hundred years ago, thrives today in the hands of everybody from American novelist Charles Baxter to Japanese hipster Banana Yoshimoto. --Jon Spayde"

Please discuss.

Three points from me: 1. Hasn't the novella "happened" from an "indie" POV, and been coopted already? 2. Is breathless bad? 3. Presitigious?

neologotypographical: a typographical mistake that no one has ever made before.

( If anyone is interested in short-short stories check out the writing section on my site: http://kevinspenst.com. I write a short-short story everyday. )

I'd like to see more of these typos. Please, please, please.

Everyone I know who worked at Harlequin had long lists of funny typos they'd collected. Maybe I'll post a special compilation of them someday here. I have a really fun list of words for genitalia.

I miss that job.

Stuart Ross sometimes lets loose at his readings with some of his favourite Harlequin copy editing moments. My fav: "She pushed her wire-rimmed glass up her nose."

his rear fogged up

Sure, sure, Zach. Uh, I mean, good recovery. Er, or sumpin'. . .

:)

Sheesh, gimme some credit, will ya, Kathryn! That was an intentional neologism, not a typo.

My favourite typo was from a Harlequin I worked on:

"She panted heavily in his rear."

I saw T.C. Boyle read on Letterman in 89 or so. hilarious. i went to the library and signed out two the next day. i especially like thta he was wearing a pea-green cordory jacket like the one i swiped from my dad when i left for university. i call it my poly-sci prof look.

Prostituition, n. paying for university courses by unsavoury means, 2. sleeping with the dean in lieu of course payment.

Thanks, Zach for that wonderful typo. Darby see what you can find when copy-editing goes awry. Zach's coined a word!

Sedaris is possibly the funniest writer I've ever encountered--after Solway that is.

Ebo, if you're stuck for funds, there's always the old standby of prostituition.

Who's Grennan? Another book to buy? Cripes! How am I gonna pay tuition?

Love David Sedaris. Just finished reading Holidays on Ice, which I will now give to my brother for Christmas (so I hope you don't see this, Mikey).

This is a terrific issue for fiction. I've already read most of it. Also, the poetry in this issue is better than usual for the New Yorker, I find the poetry in this mag so spare and precious most of the time, but here's some robust work from Merwin, Pinksy, and Grennan, so there's another selling point.

David Sedaris is a funny f*@%er! As far as I know he's the only writer to ever "read" on the Letterman show. I happened to catch that episode (around the time 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' was published). He's a terrific reader, too. He had the audience spellbound and bellylaughing at the same time.

I was tapped for space. You try squeezing all this crap into them skinny little columns.

BN??? Lorrie Moore is just an among others?

New Yorker Fiction Issue

There's work by Saunders, Sedaris, and Erdrich here, among others. I daresay you might pick it up.



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Death in Venice

A biography of a short story. What's next? A what Alice Munroe Had for Breakfast biopsy?



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I'm prepared to be a little more uncomplimentary today.

Isn't saying that short stories are peopled with the kind of characters that couldn't carry a novel like saying the 12-bar blues would never sustain a symphony?

Yes, characters in short stories are often passive, but blues singers are often whiny, too; "I've been down so long that it looks like up to me." Short stories are what they are. They have their own wisdom, their own sense of fun.

Good idea, Twinkle. I'll make one later tonight.

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Hmm. Did you say "Please: A Text" in the form of a question?

Did I mention that the first book of my newly started ninja collection is on its way? I plan to aquire all the ninja books, but one at a time. This would sound a bit like brown-nosing if you knew who I was, but since you don't, the nose remains pink and pure.

It would be nice if one of the discussion topics was a place where the books people recommend could be listed. A Bookninja reading list. It's exhausting looking through the discussions for mentioned titles.

Back on topic. Did any of you read The New Quarterly's "Wild Writers We Have Known: A Celebration of the Canadian Short Story and Story Writers" issue (Volume XXI, Numbers 2 & 3)? An ambitious and remarkable issue.

When I suggested calling my book "Please: A Text", they just stared at me.

Yeah, but Raincoast marketed PLEASE as a novel...

Lavery's book was lovely, yes!

I was extremely thrilled with the short story collection 'Please' by Peter Darbyshire, whom I believe is somehow involved with this site.

Tho it's a bit uneven, there are some very good stories in Barry Lopez's "Light Action in the Caribbean".

I have to say, tho, that short stories get short shrift in my reading schedule; I probably only read 2 or 3 collections a year. Why that is, I don't quite know, because I have no conscious objections to the form, per se, and hold some (e.g. Bartleby, Ivan Ilych, The Penal Colony, The Dead, to name but a few) very close to my literary heart.

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Ah, Jarman...

Very Good Butter by John Lavery thrilled me. It had a different feel. I first read his work in Grain. I was introduced to Very Good Butter at a writers colony, and then spent evenings there reading it. I look forward to his next collection.

A good article, even if it cut a little close for comfort in places. Yes, the form coddles, but more than other forms? Yes, there are lots of stories with passive protagonists (I've written many myself -- where is the 12 step escape?)... yes, it all gets a bit much after a while.

But there are innovate ss writers -- and exciting work being published -- though there's no broad talk about the startling story scribblers (how did Jarman's 19 KNIVES escape all major lit awards?, for example)... so I appreciate articles like this one more for the names it drops, the suggestions it makes of writers/books to check out.

Anyone been thrilled by a short story collection lately?

Well that just weakens my coddle...

"For despite what its champions may assert, the short story doesn't always demand the most from literary writers; instead it can coddle their weaknesses."

Well that really makes me want to Add to Cart. As if my weaknesses need coddling!

The Decline of the Short Story

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eek, i've exploded!

BOOM!

Hiccup. Don't forget to turn your clocks back ninjas! Your hangovers will thank you for it.

Looks like Z's been into the cough syrup again... (the ellipsis is so I don't have to type "tonight.")

Is the ellipsis after "little" because you didn't want to type the word "babies", Ninja? You sick bastard.

This one is to make Bryson's head explode.

"Fiction is really the hardest thing to promote anyway"

Well, what about replacing the fiction with poetry? We don't take up much room and eat very little...




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