Stories We Love: “The Right Company” by Megan Mayhew Bergman
I love Megan Mayhew Bergman’s story “The Right Company” from her collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise.
I love Megan Mayhew Bergman’s story “The Right Company” from her collection Birds of a Lesser Paradise.
Once upon a time in 1978, a dear friend gave me Colwin’s second novel, the Manhattan fairy tale Happy All the Time, to ease my then-broken heart.
On Lydia Davis’s “Letter” stories from her new collection, Can’t and Won’t
The voice Welty created is so entertaining on its own terms that for more than seventy years the political aspects of this story have gone essentially unremarked upon – even undiscovered, at least as far as I can tell.
“The Point” does everything stories are supposed to, and many things they aren’t. It begins with a dream, for example, and ends with backstory, both big violations of craft and yet somehow perfect.
Matthew Batt reviews Halina Duraj’s The Family Cannon: “What binds it is the fierce and loyal will of the one who knows she has to keep weaving these stray bits of stick and story and trash and grass back together to make us who we are—family.”
“When I was younger I challenged myself to write things my family members might be uncomfortable reading, or things that could get me in hot water with people I knew”: Jared Yates Sexton on his collection, An End to All Things.
Happy Short Story Month 2014! Once again, we’ll be celebrating short stories all month here at Fiction Writers Review. This months we have interviews, reviews, and craft essays, as well as the return of our “Stories We Love” series: writers on the stories that inspire them—and why. So here’s to our sixth great May full of short fiction. We hope you’ll join us regularly throughout the next few weeks, and that you’ll help us spread the word. Thank you!
Twenty years after its initial publication in Britain, Geoff Dyer’s The Search appears in American print.
Hard-earned art: For the last decade, Julia Fierro has been teaching writers, organizing readings and workshops, raising a family, and writing hundreds of pages of half-novels– and then throwing them away. Now she debuts Cutting Teeth.
