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Praising the short story

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A.O. Scott writes in praise of the short story.

Reading through their collected stories, you wonder if novels are even necessary. The imperial ambitions of a certain kind of swaggering, self-important American novel — to comprehend the totality of modern life, to limn the social, existential, sexual and political strivings of its citizens — start to seem misguided and buffoonish. More of life is glimpsed, and glimpsed more clearly, through Barthelme’s fragments, Cheever’s finely ground lenses or the pinhole camera of O’Connor’s crystalline prose.

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April 7th, 2009 at 7:04 am

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AP Style your WordPress dates and times

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I was thinking of writing a WordPress plug-in like this, but it turns out the work is done: AP Style dates and times.

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April 6th, 2009 at 12:22 am