Short stories alive and well
Scottish author AL Kennedy writes in The Independent that the story story format is alive and well - even though it gets zero media attention and publishers think it’s a waste of time.
I won’t tell you my favourite. I’ll just give you the short list, so you can buy them, and get reacquainted with the form. Colm Toibin brings a wealth of experience and skill to “Mothers and Sons“, Jackie Kay exercises her dense poetic voice in “Wish I Was Here“, Neil Gaiman offers us the exuberant and playful “Fragile Things“, we travel into the dark, into the future, into other realities and the bewildered mind with “Mortality” from the avid short story author Nicholas Royle, and Tamar Yellin explores cultural dissonance, inheritance and identity with “Kafka in Brontëland” So, in case you were wondering, the short story is still out there, alive and well and waiting for you.
