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Lädt ... The Best Small Fictions 2015von Robert Olen Butler (Herausgeber), Tara L. Masih (Series editor)
Very short stories (32) Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is a compilation of what is known as small fictions and the stories themselves are anywhere from a paragraph to 5 pages in length. Like most short story anthologies, a few of these stories I really enjoyed, but a lot didn't do anything for me. Having said that, it is a really interesting form of writing and some of the stories felt like a snippet from a larger work. ...traditional flash form and {its} subgenres: micro, Twitter fiction, iStories, fictional prose poetry and fictional haibun, and anything in between. I’m drawn to very short works of any kind -- fiction, nonfiction, essay, poetry, graphic -- and I was interested to see these classifications of flash fiction so that I can look into them. Alas, despite being a fan of Robert Olen Butler, the guest editor, I only appreciated about a dozen of the 55 stories in this anthology. And only a few passages have stayed with me, but among them is this, from “The Director” by Anya Yurchyshyn, about a visit to a funeral home: The different pamphlets that lined the coffee table all had clouds on their covers. I shuffled them, then shuffled them again, but the weather wouldn’t change. My review was published on Beattie's Book Blog, 2/216: http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2016/02/the-best-small-fictions-2015.html Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"It takes many small things to make something big. Fifty-five acclaimed and emerging writers-including Emma Bolden, Ron Carlson, Kelly Cherry, Stuart Dybek, Blake Kimzey, Roland Leach, Bobbie Ann Mason, Diane Williams, and Hiromi Kawakami-have made the debut of The Best Small Fictions 2015 something significant, something worthwhile, and something necessary. Featuring spotlights on Pleiades journal and Michael Martone, this international volume-with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler serving as guest editor and award-winning editor Tara L. Masih as series editor-is a celebration of the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer than 1,000 words." -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I will say I was very surprised with this collection. I usually do not care for short stories because I feel dropped into the middle of a story and pulled out before it's over or before I completely understand what is going on. Small fiction, however, is the matchbox of fiction; no story is more than a few short pages. There is also the feeling of completeness in these shorter stories that are missing from traditional short stories. It is not Cliff Note or the Readers Digest version of a story either. There is a fullness that usually requires many more words.
The range of material is very broad along with the style and format. The shortest work is one hundred and forty characters taken from Twitter Fiction. Most stories, though, tend to be a page or two. Almost from the start I was hooked on this collection. J. Duncan Wiley's "A Notice From the Office of Reclamation", a two and a half page warning for those thinking of entering the mine, read in part:
Rocks grind their granite teeth over geologic eons, holding their grudges close. You cannot win against them. Your little flame of curiosity, infinitesimal by comparison, will gutter before it illuminates even the shallowest depths of that darkness. You will fall.
There is a rhythm and a taunting voice that leaps from the pages and expands the words into something more than simple prose. It reads like a dark fairy tale with enough detail to fill a dream.
Some stories capture real-life events and the little embarrassments that join them. Stuart Dybek's "Brisket" is such a story. The trappings of everyday life capture us when we are distracted. "Brisket" is a great story with a moral that even vegetarians like myself can enjoy. Adding to the real life theme, Naomi Telushkin and Dan Gilmore write realistic, timely tales of identity.
Not everything is light. Emma Bolden's "Before She was a Memory" touched a very real and dark place in my life. Catherine Moore's "Not About Liz" seems innocent but has a dark and creepy undertone.
These works have all been published in various places and collected as a "best of volume" much like David Lehman does with the yearly Best of American Poetry series. The sources range from Twitter, to 100 Word Story, to Black Lawrence Press, and a wide variety of other publications. Also included with this collection is an interview Phong Nguyen of Pleiades and an interview with Michael Martone who has two stories in this collection. This is truly a well-selected collection and has given me a new appreciation for small fiction. The Best Small Fictions 2015 will make you a believer in small fiction as literature.
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