Sudden Fiction (Continued)

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First edition (publ. W. W. Norton & Co.)

Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short Stories is a collection of short stories published in 1996. It was compiled and edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas. It is a follow-up to Sudden Fiction International (1989) and Sudden Fiction - American Short-Short Stories.

Notable authors in Sudden Fiction (Continued) include William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Mark Richard, Molly Giles, Bruce Holland Rogers, , Andrew Lam, and Judy Troy.

Reception[]

Critical reception to the short story collection was positive. A reviewer from Publishers Weekly felt that the authors created fast-paced stories with "full, vivid characters and descriptions" while keeping the stories short.[1] Greg Johnson wrote in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that some of the short stories seemed gimmicky, but that Sudden Fiction (Continued) was a rich, vibrant collection otherwise.[2] Lisa Meyers from the Los Angeles Times thought that the short story collection succeeded because it offered a "variety of voices, themes, and narrative techniques."[3] Booklist's Michele Leber liked the book's format, stating that it is "perfectly suited to the pace of modern life" since the short stories can be read in a few minutes time.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Johnson, Greg (September 1, 1996). "When less is more --- occasionally: Short-short stories demonstrate constraints, virtues of form". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. 10K – via LexisNexis.
  3. ^ Meyers, Lisa (September 1, 1996). "Tiny Kingdoms". Los Angeles Times. p. F6, F9 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ Leber, Michele (July 1996). "Sudden Fiction (Continued)". Booklist. Retrieved August 5, 2020.


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