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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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Arinze Ifeakandu

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 24, 2023

On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

Daphne Kalotay Reminds Us of the Value of Short Fiction

By Daphne Kalotay | April 13, 2023

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“The Cat Thief” by Son Bo-mi, Translated by Janet Hong

By Son Bo-mi and Janet Hong | November 8, 2022

H. B. Marriott-Watson, “Devil of the Marsh” (1893)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 26, 2022

“Insert Coin”

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 14, 2022

Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction</em>’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

Memoir by Michael John Wiese; Fiction by David Antares

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2022

“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

Italo Svevo (trans. by Frederika Randall)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 1, 2022

Book of Extraordinary Tragedies

Book of Extraordinary Tragedies

Joe Meno

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 31, 2022

“The Gap”

“The Gap”

Maya abu al-Hayat (trans by Yasmine Seale)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 11, 2022

Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)

Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)

From the Collection Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural, Edited By Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 29, 2022

Stories from the Attic

Stories from the Attic

William Gay

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 18, 2022

“Resident Aliens”

“Resident Aliens”

K-Ming Chang

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 12, 2022

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