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“Clear as Cake”

“Clear as Cake”

Lori Ostlund

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 6, 2025

“Scratching”

“Scratching”

Demree McGhee

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 5, 2025

“The Day the Children Left”

“The Day the Children Left”

Clea Young

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 2, 2025

“Cosmetologist”

“Cosmetologist”

Lydia Millet

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 23, 2025

“Every Forest, Every Film”

“Every Forest, Every Film”

Marie-Helene Bertino

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 22, 2025

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”

By Sally Rooney | April 8, 2025

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“Realistic Fiction”

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 31, 2025

“I Think I’m Going to Try Trying”

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 13, 2025

“So Long to the Rearview”

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 12, 2025

“My Success”

“My Success”

Maggie Armstrong

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 2, 2025

“The Dragon Flute”

“The Dragon Flute”

Yukio Mishima (trans. Sam Bett)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 14, 2025

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2024 Insider Prize

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2024 Insider Prize

Selected by Peter Orner

By Literary Hub | September 30, 2024

Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time”

By Literary Hub | May 2, 2024

All hail

All hail "ambassador of gibberish" Michael Rosen, who won the PEN Pinter prize.

By Janet Manley | June 28, 2023

“The Blackhills”

“The Blackhills”

Eamon McGuinness

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 24, 2023

“Ira & the Whale”

“Ira & the Whale”

Rachel B. Glaser

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 24, 2023

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