Author David Butler on the ‘Competition Length’ Short Story and the ‘8 Cs’. Several constants are vital to successful story ...

1945 – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist. 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist. 1948 – Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (died 1974) 1948 – ...

Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a former F1 driver who crashed out after a bad accident in the 1990s. He spent the next 10 years as a ...

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.” ...