Jacob Shymanski and Red Szell unravel their impressions of what it means to experience a short story in all its intended brilliance. From gothic tales by Poe, to 20th-century icons like Fitzgerald and contemporary voices like Munro and Atwood, they explore the gamut of authors who’ve left lasting impact in this genre, sometimes with prose that take only twenty minutes of our time. Short stories mentioned in this episode are: The Mezzotint by MR James from ‘Collected Ghost Stories of MR James’ Whoever Was Using this Bed by Raymond Carver, from ‘From Where I’m Calling From’ The lesser Evil by Andre Sapkowski The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Jacob Shymanski and Red Szell unravel their impressions of what it means to experience a short story in all its intended brilliance. From gothic tales by Poe, to 20th-century icons like Fitzgerald and contemporary voices like Munro and Atwood, they explore the gamut of authors who’ve left lasting impact in this genre, sometimes with prose that take only twenty minutes of our time.
Short stories mentioned in this episode are:
The Mezzotint by MR James from ‘Collected Ghost Stories of MR James’
Whoever Was Using this Bed by Raymond Carver, from ‘From Where I’m Calling From’
The lesser Evil by Andre Sapkowski
The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson