Our story for April is “The Marriage of Phaedra.” This is the last of the three stories from The Troll Garden that Cather chose not to revise for inclusion in her second collection of short stories, Youth and the… Read More ›
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Willa Cather Short Story Project: Response to Flavia and Her Artists
Last week I attended an event with Min Jin Lee in conversation with Mark Oppenheimer. They were talking about writing and one of the comments Min made was about tone. She asked if anyone knew the definition of… Read More ›
February Reminder! The Willa Cather Short Story Project #1: Flavia and Her Artists
The Willa Cather Short Story Project beings!
"The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
I didn’t get much reading done last week due to working on revising a short story of my own to make a contest deadline while on a trip to coastal Connecticut. During the day we explored the historic port city… Read More ›
The Professor’s Assassin by Matthew Pearl
This recently released short story is a prequel to Pearl’s forthcoming novel The Technologists (Feb 21, 2012). Pearl is known for writing engaging historical mysteries featuring prominent 19th century literary figures (Longfellow, Poe, Dickens). I’ve been a fan since 2003… Read More ›