If a novel is like a nice bottle of wine (every once in a while you surprise yourself by polishing one off in a single night) then a good short story is like a shot. After you’ve thrown one back, you ...

Beloved author Shirley Jackson would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec. 14, had she lived to see it. In honor of this auspicious occasion, I've got 10 essential Shirley Jackson short stories ...

Talk about obsession: Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, "Signs and Symbols" (Continuum) is a massive exploration of the master's (possibly) most masterful short story, "Signs and ...