New Micro
Exceptionally Short Fiction
Published on 4. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-393-35470-6 (ISBN)
Description
All of the stories in this book are exceptionally short, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose, but readers say they are easy to appreciate, a pleasure to envision, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal, lyrical and prosaic, here are 135 stories by 89 authors, certain to make you think.
Reviews / Votes
"Reading these wonderful tiny fictions is like stealing food from the refrigerator before, or after, dinner. A sublime luxury." -- Frederick Barthelme - New World Writing "These micro fictions violate the laws of geophysics by compressing whole lives / whole worlds / whole heartbreaks into something like diamonds: bright, riven, reflective, edged, wonderful, and hard enough to cut through glass." -- Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted "New Micro's quick, bright stories are, like our lives, as brief as lightning in the blinding dark. They offer us essential truth without the inessential facts." -- John Dufresne, author of Flash! Writing the Very Short StoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-35470-6 (9780393354706)
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E-Book
04/2025
W. W. Norton & Company
€18.18
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Persons
James Thomas, coeditor of all the Flash Fiction anthologies, lives in Xenia, Ohio. Robert Scotellaro is the author of Bad Motel and Measuring the Distance. He lives in San Francisco.