Hemingway: A Very Short Story

Hemingway´s stories are all about saying the maximum with the minimum. Also, his tales have a haunting quality about them. I still think about the first text by Hemingway I read : The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Here is "A very Short Story", by Ernest Hemingway.

And here is a video about Hemingway´s life.

Short stories for EFL learners

Reading short stories in a language we are learning is a great way to enlarge our vocabulary. If you are learning English the number of stories available on the net is enormous.

Please, take a look at this link. Or this one for more advanced readers.

Lorrie Moore

I just love reading The New Yorker. Its Poetry and Fiction column gives me the opportunity of discovering new (to me!) short story writers. This is what happened when I came across this story by Lorrie Moore, "Childcare".

Nadine Gordimer

As today is Nelson Mandela´s birthday, here is the great Nadine Gordimer reading one of her short stories: 'The Loot', from the book "The Loot and Other Stories".

Writers on Writing

As a reader, I always find fascinating to know more about writers and their writing process. It seems I´m not alone on this one. The New York Times has published a series on the topic.

And talking about writers, the Guardian has a series called Writers´room, also very interesting.

An ideal family, by Katherine Mansfield

Is there such a thing as "an ideal family"? Katherine Mansfield´s story invites us to think about this.

You can listen to the story here.

Sin Dolor, by T. Coragheesan Boyle

This is the first story by T. Coragheesan Boyle I read. And what a disturbing - in a good way - tale! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

If you want to know more about the author, visit his website.