If you struggle to make your way through lengthy novels, then it may be time to try one of the 27 best short stories available. Short stories allow you to immerse yourself in new characters and ...

Short stories have always appealed to me. I majored in Creative Writing in college and had my fair share of exposure to the art of crafting a punchy, authentic story in a short space. To me, short ...

Every time I get a recommendation request where one of the five recent reads contains a collection of short stories, I get extra excited because it means I may be able to recommend a book of short ...

The interconnected stories in Knight's exquisitely crafted collection Eveningland explore the lives of characters living in and around Mobile, Ala., in the years preceding the destruction wrought by a ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

From metropolitan Austin to the North Carolina mountains, Carrie R. Moore’s collection approaches Southern identity from a ...

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 ...

In fact, the two creators had gathered each of these short stories in a new collection that had released in Japan last year. This included not only the new one-shot sequel, but some stories that had ...

If your attention span suffers from news fatigue these days, you might find it difficult to commit to reading a novel or longform work of nonfiction. Filled with digestible bites of fiction, these 23 ...