What's the last book of short stories you bought or have read?

by Adrian Sroka
3rd April 2014

I have recently bought, Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories - Norton

A must buy for short story writers.

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Alice Munro, the progress of love (Nobel Prize winner 2013), recommended by my OU tutor as the expert at creating an 'over-arching theme' which allows the writer to introduce more characters in a short story. Her plots are about family and everyday affairs, seemingly mundane, but quite gripping.

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Anthony Doran
10/04/2014

Never read one. Best get reading some as our writing group want to do a book with a collection of our work.

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June Bennion
06/04/2014

Dubliners by James Joyce. A classic.

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