short stories
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Her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, suggests the purchases were largely a pose: In his memoir, he wrote that aside from some short stories and Colette’s “Cheri” she likely never read anything start to finish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
Unlike the other artifacts with no traceable provenance, these short stories are bad.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
The short story made its way into Thomas' best-known collection of short stories, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, which was published in 1940.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
In their fiction—mostly novels for Woolf, short stories for Mansfield—they experimented by replacing linear narrative and descriptive detail with suggestion and symbolism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
She’s read each of the short stories and poems and articles a dozen times.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
