Blog Posts on fiction - short stories

Let’s get the duds out of the way by Sasha & The Silverfish on Jan 6, 2012I think I’m learning how to take bad and mediocre books in stride. That is, I’ve decided that 2012 will …Continue reading »...

Let’s get the duds out of the way by Sasha & The Silverfish on Jan 6, 2012I think I’m learning how to take bad and mediocre books in stride. That is, I’ve decided that 2012 will …Continue reading »...

“Stories can wait.” by Sasha & The Silverfish on Oct 24, 2011In his introduction to Mavis Gallant’s short story collection, Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks offers us a quote from the …Continue reading »...

“Stories can wait.” by Sasha & The Silverfish on Oct 24, 2011In his introduction to Mavis Gallant’s short story collection, Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks offers us a quote from the …Continue reading »...

Kerfuffle by Sasha & The Silverfish on Sep 9, 2011Anyone who’s trolled this blog long enough will notice that, as much as possible, I’d rather not let the real …Continue reading »...

On Alice Hoffman, and her latest by Sasha & The Silverfish on Jul 14, 2011It wasn’t until I took a pencil to her booklist that I realized: The Red Garden is the sixteenth Alice Hoffman book that I’ve read. Sixteenth. I don’t know how she stands with the other [as prolific] authors whose work … Continue reading...

On “A Year of Grace,” short story from Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados by Sasha & The Silverfish on May 11, 2011Does every reader have the compulsion to seek out authors on the hopes that you’ll find traces of your long-favorite authors in their work? Say, you’ll swear by Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, by the short fiction of Raymond Carver, …...

Stuck, with Ali Smith by Sasha & The Silverfish on May 7, 2011For Short Story Month 2010, I read Ali Smith’s collection, The Whole Story and Other Stories. I thought it was okay. I thought it was an uneven collection, mis-stepping several times yet quite lovely, with “fluid language that still manages ̷...

Standing Witness by Sasha & The Silverfish on May 4, 2011I’ve read much of Amy Bloom and consider her one of the most skilled and personally affecting contemporary short story writers I have ever encountered—but reading her latest collection, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, was still a surprise. ̷...

Moments of Miscomprehension with Andrej Blatnik by Sasha & The Silverfish on May 3, 2011The Moment of Decision The man decides things can’t go on like this. The man realizes all the women he knows only want to be friends; even the ones who sleep over only sleep over because they’ve been rejected by … Continue reading →...