In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're … - Lorin Stein

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Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . . It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

Lorin Stein

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

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I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

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I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

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The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

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So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.

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Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.

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Some kneel and lie to God.

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