4.2 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Aminatta Forna explores the delights and challenges of the short story. Author and creative writing Tessa Hadley discusses the history and development of the short story, from Edgar Allan Poe, through Chekhov, Mansfield and Monroe, and short story writers Helen Simpson and Jon McGregor, along with Dept. Editor of Granta Magazine Ellah Allfrey discuss what makes a great short story.
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1:08.5 | Hello, in today's programme we explore the often all too fleeting pleasures of the short story. |
1:16.0 | It's excited, it's encouraging, and you don't want to put the book down. |
1:22.2 | When the story end, it's a bit twisted or sometimes, oh, why did it have to end now? |
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