# Short Fiction

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:36.590Z
Tags: literature, short, fiction

## Summary

A short story is the form a writer uses when a single effect is the whole point. It does in twenty pages what a novel needs three hundred for and what a poem refuses to do at all. Key sections include: Short Fiction.; Opening What a short story is.; Chapter I Before the modern story.; Chapter II Edgar Allan Poe.; Chapter III Hawthorne.; Chapter IV Maupassant.; Chapter V Chekhov.; Chapter VI Dubliners.; Chapter VII British modernist short story.; Chapter VIII Hemingway and the iceberg..

## Slide Outline

1. Short Fiction.
2. Opening What a short story is.
3. Chapter I Before the modern story.
4. Chapter II Edgar Allan Poe.
5. Chapter III Hawthorne.
6. Chapter IV Maupassant.
7. Chapter V Chekhov.
8. Chapter VI Dubliners.
9. Chapter VII British modernist short story.
10. Chapter VIII Hemingway and the iceberg.
11. Chapter IX Borges.
12. Chapter X Cortázar.
13. Chapter XI Flannery O'Connor.
14. Chapter XII The New Yorker era.
15. Chapter XIII Carver.
16. Chapter XIV Munro.
17. Chapter XV The contemporary American story.
18. Chapter XVI Beyond English.
19. Chapter XVII The middle ground.
20. Chapter XVIII How a story is built.
21. Chapter XIX Thirty stories.
22. Chapter XX Where to read.
23. Chapter XXI Critics worth reading.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII Why read short fiction.
26. The end of the deck.

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