Posts tagged Short stories

For whom the Bell tolls

Imagine a linear story. Now imagine cartoonist Gabrielle Bell studying it with her hands on her hips. She takes a giant scissors, the kind used by mayors at ribbon cutting ceremonies, and makes two incisions…

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Machine of Death

It all started with this Dinosaur Comic where T-Rex had a great idea for a short story – a world where everyone knows how they're going to die. But T-Rex is a bit sneaky and…

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The everything guru

Well. Now Doug Dorst is just showing off. The relative newbie to the world of book glue’s new collection of short stories The Surf Guru, is so fun, so clever, and so so exciting that…

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The Safety of Objects

A.M. Homes seems to have assembled the stories in The Safety of Objects with an eye toward pushing the envelope. Sometimes, she pushes that envelope too far, but she does so in the interest of…

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Uneasy state

When Michael Schaub and the Largehearted Boy started raving about Emma Schaub’s Fly-over State on Twitter, it took me roughly 48 seconds to order up the book. That kind of hype cannot be withstood. Besides,…

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