For the bookish, the similarities are self-evident. If the short story is the literary equivalent of a pop song, crafted for brevity and immediacy, then the themed anthology is like an LP record, affording the space for both the...
Read MoreFor the sake of argument, let’s agree that the short stories in an anthology are like the running order of a set list. They should engage the audience from the outset, quelling their conversation, stopping them in their...
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At its best, Manchester’s Factory Records was the triumph of caprice over calculation. In a...
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Loners, the debut collection of short stories by Adrian Slatcher, as often as not takes its...
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For the sake of argument, let’s agree that a short story collection is a lot like a debut...
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