Stephen King Talks About Short Stories
Posted on March 8th, 2010
Some people enjoy reading short stories, and some people–for a variety of reasons–avoid them. What about you? Why?
Before answering, consider the following:
Go to the link listed below, and view the brief video and hear prolific writer Stephen King talk about why people tend not to read short stories any more:
http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?video=27791775001
POSTSCRIPT:
My rapidly shrinking attention span (which perhaps has something to do with aging) makes me a devoted reader of short stories, and novels often require more of me than my mind can lately muster. Perhaps someday–as the attention span shrinks even further–I will be found reading the same short story over and over again (without having remembered that I had read it previously). Given that scenario, I wonder which short story it should be. Perhaps it would be Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral.” Or it might be Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.” Or–more likely–it will be one of Flannery O’Connor’s late (final) stories. Do you have one short story that stands out above all others?
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