Object Lessons by Lorin Stein5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are so few exceptions to this rule I think I can actually count them: books by Alice Munro, Harold Brodkey, Chekhov, Hemingway, Joyce, Isaak Dinesen, Maupassant, Babel, Norman Rush, Hawthorne, Mrs. And at the end of the day, when I took a book to dinner or to bed – that is, when I read for pleasure – the book I took with me was almost never a book of stories. But novels were what I thought about most of the day. And certain short story writers I loved, and now and then I was lucky enough to edit one of their collections. They lend themselves to discussions of technique. And every once in a while I'd teach a class where we read short stories, because – well, because they're short. I read short stories now and then, the way book editors do, in a professional way, because they're a good place to spot talent. Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, tells us that if you think short stories are dead, you aren't paying close enough attention.įor most of my grownup life I edited books, most of them novels. ![]()
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