Re: RARA-AVIS: Why books are over 200 pagesand no short
stories
RMINOT@aol.com
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 16:06:39 EDT
Re Anthony "From the Monastery".
Please name and date the last short story not written by
Stephen King or
Ludlum or Ellroy that you read in ANY magazine. The New Yorker
publishes ROth
and Updyke Book excerpts, but not short stories. Harper's and
The Atlantic
pay shit and don't publish short fiction anymore. Writers
today, unlike
yesterday, don't "learn their craft" by writing short stories
first, then
progressing to novels. They go for the big score with a howling
with wind
first novel. We no longer live in a culture that fostered
writing, when we
had Scribner's (Magazine) and Colliers and The new Yorker, and
all the other
greats that nurtured the careers of Fitzgerald, Faulkner,
Capote, Chandler.
Stephen King, the dear, took the trouble of writing short
fiction for pennies
in pulp mags before he had the honesty to commit himself to a
novel. But that
was in the early 70s.
Reeves Minot
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