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The Remarkable Reinvention of Very Short Fiction
- World Literature Today
- University of Oklahoma
- Volume 86, Number 5, September-October 2012
- pp. 46-49
- 10.1353/wlt.2012.0197
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
Is very short fiction a renaissance or a reinvention? Are these stories defined by length, and what does a story require? In this essay introducing WLT's special focus on the genre, Robert Shapard canvasses the globe to answer these questions. Some may call the stories “flash,” but Shapard echoes Grace Paley's warning: very short stories “should be read like a poem, that is, slowly.”
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