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Books

Murky subjects, misty settings

3 September 2016

9:00 AM

3 September 2016

9:00 AM

A short-story renaissance has been promised since 2013. That year Alice Munro won the Nobel, Lydia Davis won the Booker International, and George Saunders’s bestselling collection The Tenth of December won the Folio Prize. The rise of the form was declared, but it is mainly now that we’re reaping the harvest.

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