For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
An essay by WANDA CAMPBELL: ‘When I read ‘For Esmé–With Love and Squalor’, I did not know it was considered one of J.D. Salinger’s best stories, but I knew that I liked it.’
We Recommend: Slog’s Dad
Shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition,CRAIG LAMONT recommends ‘Slog’s Dad’- a short story by David Almond.
Short Story Masterclass… with Sarah Hall
MASTERCLASS PODCAST: In the first of our Short Story Masterclass podcasts, Steve Wasserman talks to award-winning author Sarah Hall about killer stories and the sexiness of the short story form.
Pulling Words
Managing Editor and founder of Labello Press, DEBORAH McMENAMY, talks of their maiden anthology, Gem Street, and of pulling words instead of weeds.
More Than a Magician
‘More Than a Magician is one of those short stories which I found impossible to digest after just one bite…’ JULIET WEST looks at the work of contemporary Welsh writer Brian George.
We Recommend: Adam Marek’s The Stone Thrower
LELA TREDWELL recommends Adam Marek’s much-anticipated second collection of short stories, The Stone Thrower.
There Once Lived a Russian Writer Who Danced in a Nightclub
AMANDA OOSTHUIZEN recommends There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: ‘I was compelled to read with the same desperate energy that drives Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s characters to survive.’
The Crème de la Crème
Podcast: Recorded at the 2011 Small Wonder Festival, ALI SMITH reads two short stories by Muriel Spark, and shares her passionate engagement with Spark’s work.
We Recommend: James McKenna’s Black Range Tales
KATE PRUDCHENKO examines the true life stories in James McKenna’s Black Range Tales.
Author Profile: F. Scott Fitzgerald
In her essay, shortlisted for the THRESHOLDS Feature Writing Competition, JADE BROUGHTON looks at the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories.