For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...
Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...
TRINIDADIAN author Jamir Nazir, who won the Caribbean Category of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with his story 'The Serpent in the Grove,' has been announced as the overall winner of the ...