Writers on writing : the art of the short story

Table of Contents: “…Short story and poetry / Amiri Baraka -- The joys of the brief encounter / Alecia McKenzie -- Let me tell you a story / András Nagy -- Carving the fruit stones / Katherine Vaz -- The short story and me / Velma Pollard -- Writing home / Minoli Salgado -- A short history of a short story: a writer's beginnings / Merrill Joan Gerber -- Guided tours of time and death / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The story as Su-Su, the writer as gossip / Olive Senior -- Wholeness and the short story / Billie Travalini -- Not taking the bait: a brief for uselessness in short fiction / Lucy Ferriss -- Making the invisible visible / Marion Bloem -- My sister, the short story / Karen King-Aribisala -- Giacometti's foot and Proust's Madeleine: the short story of desire / Janette Turner Hospital -- Writing tough, staying honest: challenges for a writer in Singapore / Kirpal Singh -- Apartheid in literary criticism / Alfred Birney -- The long and the short of the story / Vincente Soto -- Telling stories about falling men / Ivan Wolfers -- "Not about me": autobiography and the short story / Janet Kieffer -- What comes next: women writing women in short contemporary fiction / Kelly Cherry -- Tell me a story / Donald Anderson -- A story / Vijay Lakshmi Chauhan -- The short story as process: not what it means / Cyril Dabydeen -- Deaths / Frederich Busch -- Telling stories in my head / Chris Offutt -- Glory be / Susan Rochette-Crawley -- A short story / Richard Ford -- Harvesting Blackberries, Blackberries: a black woman's publishing tale / Crystal E. …”
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