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Stories
“Every Forest, Every Film”
Marie-Helene Bertino
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| April 22, 2025
Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris
Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”
By
Sally Rooney
| April 8, 2025
What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces
For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”
By
Lea Carpenter
| January 30, 2025
Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables
Robin Waterfield Explores Some Little-Known Aspects of These Ancient Bite-Sized Tales
By
Robin Waterfield
| October 24, 2024
“A Dull, Silver Arc of Living”
Tara Isabel Zambrano
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Lit Hub Excerpts
| October 8, 2024
Chowder and Community: In Praise of Warm Meals and Warm Hearts
Tammy Armstrong on Finding Comfort and Inspiration in Fellowship and Food
By
Tammy Armstrong
| October 3, 2024
Best Reviewed
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Joy Williams on the Wild, Lyrical Stories of Brad Watson
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Joy Williams
| July 16, 2024
“Zero”
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| May 1, 2024
“Frozen Voices”
By
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| February 13, 2024
Beyond Words: On the Story Within a Single Painting
Christine Coulson Considers Finding Inspiration in Museum Wall Labels
By
Christine Coulson
| October 17, 2023
Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story
“This is our language in all its alchemic wonder—old stories rebirthing into bigger worlds.”
By
Fae Myenne Ng
| May 9, 2023
How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Mary-Alice Daniel on the Role of Narrative in Shaping History and Myth
By
Mary-Alice Daniel
| November 29, 2022
Manuel Muñoz on Trying and Failing to Tell The Story of His Biological Father
“Everyone asked me how I felt, but the mystery was how
he
had felt.”
By
Manuel Muñoz
| November 1, 2022
From the Abstract to the Everyday: How Stories Dominate Every Facet of Our Lives
Peter Brooks on the Narrative Takeover of Society
By
Peter Brooks
| October 28, 2022
Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories
“We are the stories we are told and we are the stories we tell ourselves.”
By
Harold R. Johnson
| October 24, 2022
“Cocoon”
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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| August 17, 2021
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"