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May 15, 2024 · Alice Munro, the Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013, died on Monday at 92. (Chris Young/AP) It surprises me that I can’t remember the first time that I ...
May 18, 2024 · A whole world is contained in them. A boy, maybe 10, is frying the eggs, none of his friends know how good he is in the kitchen. His mother watches him, she is unable to do much, and he is much better at frying than she is. They are both tense, the father can arrive any time, drunk or savage, lose his temper, and throw eggs and all on the floor.
May 9, 2024 · Selected short stories by Rabindranath Tagore can be found here. From Africa we have House of Hunger, a collection by the Zimbabwean author, Dambudzo Marechera, The Will to Die by South African Can Themba, and The Thing Around Your Neck by the Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Among Western European authors, we have The Periodic Table ...
May 15, 2024 · The Best William Faulkner Short Stories. Ranker Books. Updated May 15, 2024 40 items. Ranked By. 793 votes. 335 voters. Voting Rules. Vote up all of your favorite short stories by William Faulkner. One of the greatest American writers of all time, William Faulkner has written countless novels, poems, screenplays, and short stories.
May 20, 2024 · 3 Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell & Youngjae Josephine Bae. 4 What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. 5 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann. 6 The Details: A Novel by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson.
May 16, 2024 · Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episodes every Thursday, from Symphony Space.
Apr 30, 2024 · Here, unlike the constellation of rueful scenes, diaristic observations and quirky dialogue that made up her debut, “ Goodbye, Vitamin ,” Khong structures the story into a heroic triptych ...
