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    Let's Get Short: City Paper's Big Books Issue 2009 takes a look at fiction's overlooked gems
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    But as the late J. G. Ballard notes in the introduction to W.W. Norton & Co.'s The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, out this week: "Short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available, an over-valued currency that often turns out to be counterfeit. At its best, in Borges, Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe, the short story is coined from precious metal, a glint of gold that will glow for ever in the deep purse of your imagination." Hear, hear: Without the short story, wouldn't our reading lives better a little less rich? Full Article at Baltimore City Paper
    Short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available, an over-valued currency that often turns out to be counterfeit. At its best, in Borges, Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe, the short story is coined from precious metal, a glint of gold that will glow for ever in the deep purse of your imagination.
    SOURCE: Baltimore City Paper 2 months ago

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