Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All five of these librarians had interesting and unique short books to recommend—from timeless classics to more contemporary picks ...

As the saying goes, we all have stories to tell. For some authors, these stories happen to be short. Just as the price tag of a product doesn’t signal its quality, neither does an author’s brevity ...

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 ...

Read the five works contending for $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a Banff Centre writing residency. The ...

From nearly 3,000 submissions, 30 writers from across Canada have made the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize longlist. YSL Classes ...

Some of Stephen King's best works can be found in short story collections like Nightmares & Dreamscapes, You Like It Darker, and Skeleton Crew.

TOLEDO — Local historian Kevin Moore has published a short historical fiction about Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory in the Battle of Lake Erie. “Waves and War: A Short Story” follows the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Gabriel García Márquez didn’t just write stories—he created ...

Amor Towles has transported readers to a hotel in a changing Russia ("A Gentleman in Moscow") and the roads of the U.S. in the 1950's ("The Lincoln Highway," a Read With Jenna pick). For his next book ...