It's not secret to anyone who reads our blog (all six of you), but Liz and I are nuts for short stories. I think we have this in common
because we both fell in love with Joyce Carol Oates at an early age, and she is
a master of the form. She is also tall and you know how Liz feels about tall
people, she finds them to be superior in every way. [Huh? JCO is tiny. But yes, I do think that tall people are superior in every way.]
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| A rainbow of stories... |
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| Hannah Tinti Editor-in-Chief @ One Story and author of The Good Thief |
This is all by way of telling you I am not writing about a
book today. Forever the rule breaker, I am going to try and sell you on a
subscription to One Story magazine. I
hate calling it a magazine because it’s not really a magazine. It’s better than
a magazine, yes, even US Weekly. Every
three weeks, One Story publishes, you guessed it, one
story. That’s right, every issue is dedicated to one single story. Why? Because
we have trained ourselves to read stories as a group, bunched together in
anthologies or an author’s collection. And that’s fine; in fact, some are meant
to be read together. But more often than not, stories need to be savored and
you lose that by finishing one story and moments later turning the page and
starting a new one.
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| A.M. Homes, who went to a state school called Sarah Lawrence |
Well, first of all, there's nothing wrong with going to a
state school, get off your high horse! Secondly, I just grabbed a few examples
from the past couple of years and I am looking at The Omega Point or Happy Birthday Baby by A.M. Homes, The Widow’s Cruse by Emma Donoghue, Girls Only by Karen Shepard, Bad Return by Aimee Bender, and The World to Come by Jim Shepard. See,
and they all went to state schools (completely false statement).
How much? It’s all about money with you people isn’t it? $21.00
for 15 issues, that’s a buck & change per issue, less than a neck massage
on a city bus! What, that’s not really a thing? Gross.
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