Between short story maestro Alice Munro winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature and George Saunders' Tenth of December blowing up across bestseller and year-end best lists, short stories have ...

Writing is not like assembling IKEA furniture: You can’t build your skills by reading an instruction manual and then viola, product assembled. Particularly in fiction, you largely learn by doing.

The title "Wind in the Willows" may not be immediately familiar to American audiences, but thanks to a beloved theme park ride, its central character, Mr. Toad, is known the world over. Released as ...