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Topic: short stories

The female engine, woman as a machine (Getty Stock Photo)

3 sci-fi collections imagine new worlds

April Yee
“The Memory Police: A Novel” by Yōko Ogawa; “The World Doesn't Require You: Stories” by Rion Amilcar Scott; “Inland” by Téa Obreht; “Hollow Kingdom” by Kira Jane Buxton; “They Could Have Named Her Anything” by Stephanie Jimenez (Penguin Random House/Liveright/Grand Central Publishing/Little A)

Need to read: Hot new fiction in August

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens
"Back Talk" author Danielle Lazarin (Sylvie Rosokoff)

"Back Talk": Stories behind closed doors

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sean Beaudoin (Martha Brockenbrough)

Sean Beaudoin talks

Jonathan Evison
Austin Bunn, Leslie Jamison (HarperCollins/Robert Thomas Hazen/AP/Richard Drew)

Jamison and Bunn on writing

Austin Bunn, Leslie Jamison
Kelly Link (Sharona Jacobs Photography)

The rare wonders of Kelly Link

Laura Miller
Lydia Davis (Theo Cote)

Lydia Davis: The Salon Q&A

Brendan Mathews
Elizabeth McCracken (Tom Langdon)

I plan to eat the humorless!

Kelly Luce
Jesmyn Ward, Molly Antopol (AP/Tina Fineberg/W. W. Norton/Debbi Cooper)

Molly Antopol: Salon q-and-a

Jesmyn Ward
Lorrie Moore (Knopf/Linda Nylind)

Daniel D'Addario
Subject: SAUNDERS George - Copyright: Basso CANNARSA/Opale - Date: 20090707- (Basso Cannarsa/opale)

George Saunders, truth-teller

David Daley
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Prachi Gupta

"Fools," holy and political

Laura Miller

Why we love loooong novels

Laura Miller
Alice Munro (AP/Peter Morrison)

Shannon Rupp - The Tyee
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Prachi Gupta
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2002 file photo, Canadian author Alice Munro poses for a photograph at the Canadian Consulate's residence in New York. Munro has won this year's Nobel Prize in literature it was announced Thursday Oct. 10, 2013. The Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel literature winners, called her a "master of the contemporary short story". (AP Photo/Paul Hawthorne, File) (Paul Hawthorne)

How Alice Munro won me over

Laura Miller
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Aimee Bender

Teddy Wayne
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Prachi Gupta

Michael Bourne - LA Review of Books
Clockwise from top left, Junot Díaz, Amber Dermont, Nathan Englander, George Saunders (T.w.meyer)

There's no short-story boom

Laura Miller

William Boyle - LA Review of Books

Prachi Gupta