EASTON — Over his lifetime, William Faulkner wrote more than 19 novels and 125 short stories, not to mention 20 screenplays, a play and six collections of poetry. In Chesapeake Forum’s new class ...

A story from the past offers insights into our troubled present. It's a story written in the 19th century that is popular in India. In it, a girl in India becomes friends with an Afghan migrant, which ...

When Joan Leegant begins writing a short story, she doesn’t have a theme, character, or even intention in mind. Instead, she begins with one sentence and sees where it takes her. Fans of the short ...

Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes. By Anthony DePalma Alice Munro, the revered Canadian author who started writing short ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...