Short Stories – Page 79 – Cannonball Read 17

Bingo #3 With a Banned Short Story

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

October 29, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In a bit of bingo logistics, I decided a couple short stories might be in order to fill in as many remaining squares as I could. With that in mind I went down the list of things I’ve been meaning to read anyway and came across “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson which has quite the history of making people question its place in front of readers at all. What I didn’t know was just how short it really is – its only 3,773 words long! […]

You probably don’t want this, actually.

You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

October 29, 2019 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Remember ‘Cat Person’? The viral short story published in The New Yorker last year that literally everyone you know sent to you with the message ‘Oh my god, you HAVE to read this!’? Well the author, Kristen Roupenian, has published a collection of short stories with the tempting title ‘You Know You Want This’. I heard about the book via a podcast interview with the author herself. It centered on Roupenian’s shock and amazement at the juggernaut that Cat Person became, and her new book […]

A parody of classic fairy tales for the modern feminist

Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales by Laura Lane

October 28, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy Tales looked like a short book. I figured, as I knew the original tales, this would be an easy read for the night. In fact, most likely would be able to finish that evening. Comedy team Laura Lane and Ellen Haun created a funny, but we know these feminist stories. Cinderella does not need the prince to take her out of poverty. It is Rapunzel’s choice to shave areas of her body or not. It is […]

I thought he went to the gun show.

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

October 28, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Newest collection of stories by Joe Hill, including two previously published and co-written stories with Stephe King “In the Tall Grass” and “Throttle”. “Throttle” is a remix of the Richard Matheson short story “Duel” and “In the Tall Grass” has recently been made into a Netflix original film. So, this collection covers about 10 years of story writing, and this kind of disparate path is indicative of a variable quality of these stories. A few of them are great. I thought “Faun” in which a […]

Good Language is Wasted on the Young: Bingo 6 (because I missed one)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

October 22, 2019 by Ale Leave a Comment

I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for the first time in 5th grade for a class assignment, and never revisited it again. However, my interest in the original tale was piqued when hubby and I took a trip to actual Sleepy Hollow, New York, for their Halloween festivities a few weeks ago. We saw a storyteller do the entire legend complete with props, costumes, and the original language. It was AWESOME, but I wondered while we were listening how much of the story was truncated […]

There is an old cliche about street life: you leave, the streets follow.

Grand Union by Zadie Smith

October 15, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a collection of short stories by Zadie Smith, collected from the last six years or so. Given her primary status as a novelist, the length of time this collection covers, and the relative thinness of this collection, this comes through as an odds and ends collection replete with a handful of more experimental works. I generally like Zadie Smith novels, with only one I don’t think is very good, one which is better, but less good, and the rest being quite good, and […]

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