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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Short Stories</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/short-stories/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Book Review: Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20332</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20332#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:53:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Erin Suzuki</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Oyeyemi]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20332</guid> <description><![CDATA[In a neat reversal of the Reynard myth, the students at a school that molds young men into “world-class husbands” for purchase by the wealthiest bidder discover a murderer locked away beneath the campus grounds—a personification of all of the human weaknesses and desires that are forcibly discouraged and suppressed in order to create cookie-cutter Prince Charmings skilled in exemplary masculine arts like “Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotence.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20332/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19586</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19586#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Charles J. Haynes</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19586</guid> <description><![CDATA[Filled with unsettling images and language, Alois Hotchnig’s newly translated collection is an uncomfortable journey, but one made extremely rewarding by innovative narrative and pace. Each of the nine stories in this slim volume are difficult to retell – characters are nameless and locations generic – yet, their force comes not from the particular.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19586/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17928</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17928#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candyman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clive Barker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hellraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midnight meat train]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nightbreed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[screenwriting]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17928</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the screen to the stage to the canvas to the console. However, film fans know him particularly as a horror master. There is so much undermined material for gifted fantasy filmmakers that perhaps we could dispense with further <em>Candyman</em> sequels and retire the <em>Hellraiser</em> juggernaut with contented hearts, and enjoy a Clive Barker renaissance clad in all new colors.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17928/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle</title><link>http://calitreview.com/15705</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/15705#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 01:31:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mythology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arnold schwarzenegger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conan the barbarian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cult classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lionsgate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marcus nispel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies adventure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies cult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=15705</guid> <description><![CDATA[Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose dates have dragged them, possibly by the hair, to the late summer picture show. By now many of you know that Lionsgate will soon release a new film entitled <em>Conan The Barbarian</em>. Most of you will recall a cult classic by the same name from 1982, which was the breakout role of a certain Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/15705/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14942</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14942#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Marla Wick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joan Aiken]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14942</guid> <description><![CDATA[The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the disarming guilelessness of parables, Aiken’s stories slip the apparent structure of their bounds at the last moment. For example, “The Monkey’s Wedding,” while describing the scrabble for the eponymously named painting, also explores the open-ended drama of a fractured family. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14942/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Walks With Men by Ann Beattie</title><link>http://calitreview.com/10864</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/10864#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:43:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark Fitzgerald</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ann Beattie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[novella]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=10864</guid> <description><![CDATA[Beattie, like in so much of her earlier work, leaves a lot to the imagination. Between the dialogue and the action, certain assumptions, even leaps of faith, are sometimes necessary to get from one paragraph to the next. There are better ways to render suspense—less does not always mean more—but you get the sense from the very first sentence that something important is about to be revealed.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/10864/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4920</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4920#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:35:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lori Ostlund]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4920</guid> <description><![CDATA[<em>The Bigness of the World</em>, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the judges of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She won the prize in 2008. Deservedly so, for Ostlund has an ear, an appendage often ignored by writers in favor of the flashier eye. Alive to the subtext of the everyday, she uses flat conversations as a front for complicated back-stories...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4920/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1380</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1380#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Annie Proulx]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wyoming Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wyoming Stories 3]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1380</guid> <description><![CDATA[Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming stories. Women imperil themselves on mountains, animals go tits-up in ditches, young and old end up blighted or dead. Even the Devil can’t quite seem to make things work. Life is tough, Proulx says, and I ain’t peddling corn syrup.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1380/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs</title><link>http://calitreview.com/716</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/716#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:24:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cape May]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=716</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in its clear-sighted modesty of style, one that implicitly offers in plenitude, examples of decency. A surprising, and exhilarating, visit to Cape May awaits readers.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/716/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China</title><link>http://calitreview.com/637</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/637#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/china/637/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in China, is short, true. But as anyone who has tried to write a thank you card knows, brevity ain’t easy. Nor is it truly fair to view this book as a kind of primer on all thoughts Chinese. After all, one doesn’t expect E. Annie Proulx’s work to bear much relation to T.C. Boyle’s, despite the shared vocabulary. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/637/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Collected Short Stories of Louis L&#8217;Amour</title><link>http://calitreview.com/311</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/311#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Westerns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louis L'Amour]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/01/30/the-collected-short-stories-of-louis-lamour/</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of tracking, botany, and the lawful ways of the West, don’t challenge him in a gunfight. You’ll lose. Keep an eye out for smooth-talking, rich, and handsome men. They’re not to be trusted and they never end tidily. But a trim girl with smiling eyes who knows how to ride a horse, be she a reformed prostitute or a rancher’s daughter…well, expect to see her settling down any day now. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/311/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Nimrod Flipout &#8211; by Etgar Keret</title><link>http://calitreview.com/147</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/147#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:41:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>T.K. Dalton</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/the-nimrod-flipout-by-etgar-keret/</guid> <description><![CDATA[You know how sometimes you’ll be having dinner with a woman and then, as the sun goes down, she’ll turn into a heavy, hairy man?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/147/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales &#8211; by  by James Ellroy</title><link>http://calitreview.com/117</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/117#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:42:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boxing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[James Ellroy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/destination-morgue-la-tales-by-by-james-ellroy/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Anyone who reads “Balls to the Wall” will gain a true, bloody taste for a slice of contemporary life that is all American, nasty, perverted, occasionally heroic.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/117/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli</title><link>http://calitreview.com/109</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/109#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:37:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/centuria-100-ouroboric-novels-by-giorgio-manganelli/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Americans in this therapy-mad epoch tend to take, rather mistake, an “experience” for that fateful “event.”  Perusing Centuria, we may come to understand that the myriad catastrophes blazoned in newspapers and splashed over our screens — love, celebrity, athletic prowess, failure or fame, marriage, illness, crisis, smashup — do not concern the soul; nor can they illuminate whatever meaning life might propose.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/109/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx</title><link>http://calitreview.com/100</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/100#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:56:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Holt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Annie Proulx]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com//fiction-reviews/bad-dirt-wyoming-stories-2-by-annie-proulx/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Where do I start with Annie Proulx? Where does anyone start with Annie Proulx? Certainly not at the beginning. She wouldn’t like that. Conventional approaches to anything appear to at once annoy and to bore the Wyoming writer.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/100/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
