From surrealist romps to heartfelt examinations of family, love, and grief, these collections prove great things can come in small packages.

May is Short Story Month and CBC Books has compiled a list of Canadian short story collections to celebrate. From speculative ...

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 ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Library Associate Beth Shapiro compiled this month’s selections. In ...

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

Once We Were Wildlife proves Inga Simpson is just as masterful writing short fiction as novels.

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 ...

A new voice in Southern literature is emerging this spring with "Hellions," a shorty story collection from Columbia-based author Julia Elliot. This collection, publishing April 15, already has ...

As Ross McMeekin tells it, short stories are a kind of literary firecracker. “There’s an intensity and a compression to the form,” he says. “It’s almost a puzzle element with short stories, in that ...

For a book full of ghost stories, Louise Erdrich’s “Python’s Kiss” positively bursts with life. This short story collection ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades. In her debut short story ...