By Faber on June 22, 2012
Drifting House is the dazzling story collection from Korean-American author Krys Lee. Set in the US and both Koreas, featuring characters struggling to adjust to alien cultures, the stories are often unsettling. In this short interview filmed on her trip to London, Krys tells us more about the stories and her writing.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction | Tagged contemporary fiction, short stories
By Faber on January 27, 2012
A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged Immigrant, Korea, short stories
By Faber on January 19, 2012
Faber offers up Krys Lee’s Drifting House, a collection of short stories based around post-WWII Korea and Korean-American immigrants. Read an extract here!
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction | Tagged Immigrant, Korea, short stories, WWII
By The Bookdiva on November 25, 2011
In case you missed them earlier, check out some of the contemporary fiction we’ve featured earlier this month!
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged family, mystery, PD James, Pride and Prejudice, relationships, short stories
By Canongate on November 23, 2011
Read the eponymous extract from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Apricot Jam, a collection of short stories set in Soviet-era Russia.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged short stories, Soviet-era
By Canongate on November 5, 2010
In this new audio CD, author Miranda July (You, Me And Everyone We Know) reads her collection of touching stories from her 2008 collection, No One Belongs Here More Than You.
Posted in Contemporary Fiction, Fiction | Tagged Audio, short stories
By Canongate on March 11, 2010
Find out about new short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It from author Maile Meloy, and read one of the stories here on Bookhugger.
Posted in Fiction, General and literary | Tagged Extracts, Interviews, short stories
By Canongate on February 8, 2010
Canongate is re-issuing Dan Rhodes’s Anthropology and Timoleon Vieta Come Home to coincide with the publication of Little Hands Clapping, the latest novel from the man described by the Guardian as ‘reliably odd but fabulous’.
Posted in Fiction, General and literary | Tagged love, relationships, short stories, Video
By Canongate on October 13, 2009
Nominated for a 2009 World Fantasy Award, this weird, wicked, spooky and delicious book of tall tales will keep you up all night. Read one of the stories here on Bookhugger.
Posted in Fiction, General and literary | Tagged Extracts, fantasy, horror, short stories
By Faber on September 30, 2009
Read the title story from Clare Wigfall’s acclaimed short story collection, here on Bookhugger.
Posted in Fiction, General and literary | Tagged Extracts, short stories
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