I’m guessing I was in high school when I first heard the word “existential” or “existentialism.” Likewise, I’m guessing that was when I first grasped even a glimmer of what it meant — and I am still far from claiming comprehension. One thing I’ve always found unique about existentialism is fiction’s role in it. Ask […]
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Tim July 3rd, 2013 | Tags: existentialism, fiction, Kafka, short stories | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | Stories can reveal much about a people, culture or nation. They tend to reflect not only tradition but the variety and evolution of beliefs and societal viewpoints. Although Miroslav Penkov now lives and teaches in the United States, his debut collection of short stories provides insight into his native Bulgaria a reader would never pick […] Tim June 4th, 2012 | Tags: Book Reviews, Bulgaria, fiction, Review Copy, short stories | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | | Book publicity frequently is an exercise in the art (or artifice) of puffery. So, when a book is described as a “genre-busting” work, I tend to approach it with a bit of caution. Generally, though that term is a fair description of The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, Patrick Somerville’s collection of short stories. Some […] Tim November 12th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, Review Copy, sci-fi, short stories | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | | Given American popular literature today, perhaps a person first seeing Vasily Grossman’s The Road on the bookshelves could be excused if they first wonder if it is vampire or zombie-laden mashup of Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning novel of the same name. Yet readers who actually pick up the book and explore it will discern that this […] Tim October 18th, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, history, journalism, Review Copy, short stories, world literature | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | Short stories and poetry are deceptively difficult literary forms. On the surface, they have the allure of simplicity. After all, they don’t require the detailed arcs or subplots of a novel. Short stories also need not deal with meter or rhyme. Yet these things also make them so difficult. They require far more exactitude than […] Tim October 12th, 2009 | Tags: Book Reviews, fiction, poetry, Review Copy, short stories | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | | |
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