Short stories allow you to immerse yourself in new characters and situations every time you start a new section, and the best short story collections manage to feel just as rich and transportive ...

Ray Bradbury wrote 11 novels — and over 400 short stories. He was famous for writing a story every week, a practice many other writers have since tried to emulate.

Eleven Short Story Collections That Will Get You Back Into Reading If you’ve been looking to dip your toes into the world of short stories, these must-read collections are a great place to start.

So for this anti-summer reading list, let’s celebrate how short stories can be so dark and so satisfying. Anti-“school’s out”: ZZ Packer, “Our Lady of Peace” from Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003).