“We have professors of poetry and professors of ethnicized literature, but no professors of the short story,” Michael J. Collins said to a Stanford crowd on Tuesday. He joked that it may be because it ...

This course invites lovers of Canadian short fiction, curious readers and aspiring writers to explore the art of short stories by examining theme, narrator, characters, setting, context and narrative ...

We advised our students to avoid the short stories. What with all the characters in those stories,” a teacher of English and Literature told me recently. My heart sunk at this pronouncement; I was ...