Short stories

The light on my side of the bed is not working.  You switch sides with me, so I can stay up to read Richard Bausch’s short story collection Something Is…

Ultimately, the one thing about literature is that it’s never static. As soon as something becomes a trend, readers are looking outside of that trend, wondering what new kinds of books are out beyond the breakers, or still an undertow.

I don’t know if the great American short story writer Bernard Malamud is a literary figure in danger of suffering neglect or not. But I would like to believe that,…

We’re pleased to bring you the newest installment of the Where to Submit list, headlined by a photo from Pelle Cass’s “Selected People” series. Cass writes: This work both orders the…

Education is key, and I don’t mean writing classes, I mean editors taking the time to not just tell an author, “Set up a Twitter account and a Facebook and promote your work,” but actually take the time to school them on how to use those platforms, and to give them greater assistance in doing events and interviews.

When I’m looking for a book, I look for stylists. It’s not the just the story, it’s how it’s told. That’s a pretty boring thing to say, but it’s true. Our first writer we published was Kyle Coma-Thompson. That’s a writer who has a lot to say, and he says it in a way that really isn’t like anyone else. His stuff can be polarizing, and often puzzling, but the way he writes, the way he pays attention to the sentence is remarkable. He’s soon to be a force.

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Nominal Case by Thomas Cotsonas Black Lawrence Press, 2016 180 pages – Black Lawrence / Amazon   I first came across the stories of Thomas Cotsonas as an editor of…

We must ask questions and work together—not just publishers, but authors and agents and readers and booksellers and everyone who has a stake in the literary community, in this era of content, content, content. Is the traditional publishing distribution model sustainable on a smaller scale, i.e. fewer than six to twelve titles per year? Why aren’t major awards moving the sales needle to a significant degree? If debut authors want independent presses to open more slots in our catalogs, then how can they help support our growth? How can we get everyday readers—people who aren’t industry stakeholders—reading more fiction?

It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides by Jessica Lee Richardson 2015, Fiction Collective 2 232 pages – FC2 (University of Alabama Press) / Amazon   I have never had…

You know, the typical publishing story. I was sitting in a bar in the year 2000 with some freak I knew from a miserable job I had at the time and he turned to me and said, “I want to start a press and you should be the editor because you are very outgoing.” I downed my tenth or so beer and told him that was a great idea and he could count me in. At this miserable job, I had written a novel called For Fucks Sake, and we decided to launch the press with my book. At the same time, I started dating my future wife Elizabeth, who already worked in publishing, at a literary agency. The three of us spent the next two years meeting at the freak’s apartment with occasional assorted other freaks making detailed plans on how we would publish our one book; after the meetings, we would all go to dinner and get drunk.

Doll Palace by Sara Lippmann Dock Street Press, 2014 258 pages – Dock Street / Amazon   Lippmann is a rare phenomenon. Her short story collection, Doll Palace (Dock Street Press),…

The New York Stories by Ben Tanzer Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, 2015 224 pages – CCLAP / Amazon   The copiously productive and under-ground-indie-writer-extradordinaire, Ben Tanzer, is now out…