Short Stories: Dead or Alive? Plus: Genre Literature

Apparently best-selling writer Stephen King thinks short stories are alive, but barely, while short story writer Jack Livings in Newsweek is a bit more optimistic, though given the evidence and arguments he presents, I’m not sure why.
Among Livings’ faint-praise responses to King’s short story death-knell:
“There’s evidence that the size of the audience for literary short […]

Filed under: fiction, crime fiction, magazines, short stories on November 5th, 2007 | No Comments »

Magazine Articles Abridged

Brijit takes “the world’s best long-form content and boil it down to 100 words. Brijit abstracts summarize, review and rate to make it easy for you to choose what to read, listen to and watch.”
Core sources include The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Wired, ESPN magazine, the Economist, This American Life, Marketplace, The NYT Magazine, […]

Filed under: media, magazines, time-saver on October 29th, 2007 | No Comments »