Dana Gioia
Birth date: December 24, 1950
Dana Gioia's Books
Very well crafted short stories with quite a few illuminating moments. He also has the ability to insert miniature stories within the story, the mark of a good story-teller filled with ideas. I was especially fond of Waldon Kees' use of public libraries as a setting for a number of his stories. Al...
"I didn't figure out till years later the extent of what I had been saved from." Alice Munro book sales have been understandably surging following her Nobel Prize win. Previously, I've only had exposure to one of her works, titled Girls and Boys, which I personally wasn't a huge fan of. There we...
It amazes me how my opinions about short stories have changed over the years. I used to dislike them, the reason being that they were too brief for me to get to know the characters, to grow to like them, to be able to enthusiastically throw myself into their stories. However, I grew to like them, an...
All the "classic" short stories writing teachers ever need to teach are compacted into one convenient anthology. What I find most convenient are the author's brief biographies and the ideas and inspirations behind the short stories. Both authors and titles are listed on the blurb page.
The lit-fic aesthetic is really not my favourite.
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