tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post8067775824559573609..comments2024-03-28T15:26:12.621-04:00Comments on Blue Country Magic: Wherefore Art Thou, Short Stories?CountryDewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03243893531509380824noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-65882201303513671872010-05-17T22:09:35.444-04:002010-05-17T22:09:35.444-04:00I used to read short stories. My Grandma loved my...I used to read short stories. My Grandma loved mysteries and she got Ellery Queen Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. They both had great short stories that I read when I visited her.Sweet Virginia Breezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00880471609039337533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-84707544658720446412010-05-17T11:01:52.412-04:002010-05-17T11:01:52.412-04:00I remember reading short stories all the time in s...I remember reading short stories all the time in school growing up. I enjoyed them a lot. I can't recall who authored them, but I wish I could. They would be fun to read again.<br /><br />We subscribe to Reader's Digest. It's one of my husband's favorite magazines. Lots of good stories still in there.<br /><br />I have some short story books in my collection, but they are mostly ghost stories from Virginia.Sweetflutterbys3https://www.blogger.com/profile/13276478679906785113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-31966685778926938972010-05-17T07:44:27.568-04:002010-05-17T07:44:27.568-04:00Yeah, and what ever happened to Readers' Diges...Yeah, and what ever happened to Readers' Digest? I was just thinking about that recently.<br /><br />Anita, have you ever listened to The Moth podcast? You can either download it to an Ipod or listen online. http://www.themoth.org/ will get you there. These are extemporaneous "tellings" of stories by their authors. It fills my need for short stories.Redhenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06560057307230379103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-71531671538698586802010-05-17T07:20:53.713-04:002010-05-17T07:20:53.713-04:00I like the series (it comes out once a year) New S...I like the series (it comes out once a year) New Stories from the South. And, of course, my favorite short story writers are from the South as well. I like Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Doris Betts, etc. But my very favorite short story writer is Tim Gautreaux. His stories are literary, but funny. And there is almost always some sense of hope in them, no matter how small.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12575140898505901920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-78622121142385818882010-05-16T16:49:02.654-04:002010-05-16T16:49:02.654-04:00I remember reading "A Rose for Emily" in...I remember reading "A Rose for Emily" in college and loved it.<br /><br />I think perhaps a lot of short stories are now hiding in obscure literary magazines. I miss seeing them in regular magazines—I remember when <i>Ladies' Home Journal</i> had them, and <i>Redbook, McCall's,</i> and others.<br /><br />When I was a young teen, I read <i>True Confessions</i> and others.Becky Mushkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833297935575559624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-62788034556723686392010-05-16T11:43:03.580-04:002010-05-16T11:43:03.580-04:00I don't think regular publishers like the form...I don't think regular publishers like the form, while literary magazines are more poetry oriented. If an anthology of short stores is published, it is likely to be of stories by an established novelist. Publishers aren't prepared to risk investing in a writer who is a short story teller by preference and does not have a "name" they can market. Margaret Atwood has a some good collections out, though, as does Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin and many others.Briarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242731014996459484noreply@blogger.com