Index: On the Short Story

The Short Story

• Brief Encounters (3/10/04)
• Hillaire Belloc on the Short Story (1/11/04)
• A Shot for the Shorts (22/5/06)
• Save the Short Story Campaign (10/7/05)
• Goddess of the Literary Bordello (25/8/05)
• Food for the Mind - By Vending Machine (23/8/05)
• Small Gems (25/8/05)
• Interpreting the Story (8/1/06)
• Summer Stories (27/7/06) (some recent short fiction online)
• Resourcing the Story (20/12/06)
• Christmas Fiction (25/12/07)
• The Spirit of the Short Story, The Spirit of the Place (16/4/07)
• A Question of Length (11/5/07)
• Summer Shorts (13/8/07)
• The Passing of Grace Paley (25/8/07)
• When the Short Story Grows Up, It Wants to be a Novel (18/9/07)
• Filmmaker Takes Short Story Award (15/9/07)
• Darling Little Instruments (3/11/07)
• Believing in Your Story Collections (7/5/08)
• A Short Story is Like a First Date, A Novel Like a Marriage (23/06/08)
  

Writing Short Fiction

• Where Do Little Stories Come from, Mummy? (23/7/05)

Short Story Collections

• Domestic Women and Short Story Land (25/3/05)
• The Sound of the Future (7/5/06) (about Hari Kunzru's Noise)
• B-Reef Readings (28/11/05) (about Romesh Gunasekeran's Monkfish Moon)
• Between Pussy and Elephant: Gripping Social Reality (19/12/05) (about Rattawat Lapcharoensap's Sightseeing)
• Quirky Shorts (20/1/06) (about Etgar Keret's The Bus Driver who wanted to be God)
• License to Spin (6/7/05) (about Peter Ho Davies' The Ugliest House in the World)
• Decongestion Charge (1/7/06)
• Good Prayers, Great Stories (24/8/06) (about Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers)
• Yiyun's Story (7/12/06)
• Little Book of Delights (31/8/06) (about Paul Auster's Auggie Wren's Christmas Story)
• The Spirit of the Short Story, the Spirit of the Place (16/4/07)
  
• Summer Shorts (13/8/07)
  
• Very Well Versed (15/8/07) (about the British Council's New Writing 15)
• The Passing of Grace Paley (25/8/07)
  
• When the Short Story Grows Up it Wants to be a Novel (18/9/07)
  
• Filmmaker Takes Short Story Award (25/9/07) (about Miranda July)
  
• Daring Little Instruments (3/11/08)
  
• Wena's Lions (5/2/08) (a review of Wena Poon's Lions in Winter)
  

Short short stories /Microfiction

• Write a Nanotale (24/2/07)
• Short, Shorter, Shortest (6/3/07)
• Sufian's Mission (30/3/08)
  

Malaysian Short Story Collections

• Giving Writers a Chance (18/5/05) (my editing experience)
• Welcome Reissues (3/7/05) (about Lloyd Fernando's stories)
• The Book Project (30/7/05)
• Best of Silverfish (4/4/06)
• The Birth of Neohikayat (14/4/06)
• SNW6 - Best Yet? (24/1/07)
• Another Dark City Ride of Terror (24/11/07)
• Guat's Old House (27/2/08) (a review of Chuah Guat Eng's collection of stories)
  
• Sufian's Mission (30/3/08) (about Sufian Abas' first short story collection)
• Silverfish's Full Stop (7/8/08) (review of Silverfish New Writing 7)
  

(Index last updated 6/4/08)