short and very short stories .

[barbarasimmings]

i am looking for short and very short stories ( i am incapable of following large prose ) ; possibly , if not conclusively , Dickens,russell, borges ( with roughly dickens short sized stories, applied to all ) and this;http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html. polish literature, szymborsdka, kapuscinsski, gombrowicz and of course milosz ( if prose ) . in additon to interesting jewish writers,without too much jewish and holocaust themes , i very much like will eisner , salinger , gertrude stein, arthur miller, saul bellow shalom auslander and margaret atwood. Are john gabries garcia marquez and tolstoy, nabokov ,lydia davis, ursula k. le guin and john sheever tthat interesting or semantisized ,so to speak ( when it comes to their short novels,if provided ).it is a shame that my knowledge of female writers is pathetic, please change that, but with NO
feminine themes involved . i know this is not as cute as the dickens, to use old language . i have given names as mere examples, and not in any particular interest . . thanx. but i hope to hear from you .

[EvoWarrior5]

I loved reading Richard Bruce Nugent's "Smoke, Lilies and Jade", although its modernist aesthetic may not appeal to you.

When you said you wanted to read more female writers, Alice Munro jumped to mind first. Problem is, many of her stories do have "feminine themes" I think. I enjoyed reading "Fiction" and "Child's Play" a while back, I can't remember those ones being overtly feminine in its themes, although forgive me if they do turn out to.

[YesNo]

Try the short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer called "Gimpel the Fool".

[barbarasimmings]

Thnx really appreciative of all of you .

[erslyman]

I enjoy short stories. Saki and Chekov are my favorite. They keep me company on train rides. Interrupt the news with its shocking events. Or dull political nonsense.

"The shorter the better.
Though a wool sweater
shouldn't reach the floor.
Or run out the door.
It should keep me company.
It's a long story."

[chrisvia]

Hemingway (especially the oft-anthologized "Up in Michigan") and Raymond Carver (a personal favorite of the compressed story) both come to mind. I also highly recommend Woolf, Lorrie Moore, and Lydia Davis come to mind for women writers of short prose.

[JuanMSanchez]

Hi Barbara, I live in Poland and I like Kapuscinski too. I think you miss one of the best story tellers: Jack London. And I also like Alan Poe, and I will recommend you an Argentinean writer too: Horacio Quiroga- tales from the jungle. The books is online. I wrote quite a bunch of short stories myself: Romantic, psychological horror, and based on real facts. If you want to take a look I leave you the link: literaryechoes.com

[EmptySeraph]

John Barth, Donald Barthelme, James Joyce.

[YesNo]

I am reading the winning stories from Christopher Fielden's annual competition "To Hull and Back Anthology 2016". So far my favorite is Dan Purdue's tale "Feeding the Creatives".