"A Small, Good Thing" is the podcast about short fiction. Interviews with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
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New episode out today! In which Sam Reese tells the fascinating story of four writers who in those years used the short story as an outlet for countercultural expression.
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New episode out today! Richard Brautigan is most famous for his iconic novel “Trout Fishing in America”, but he was also a prolific short story writer and poet. Listen to Chris Gair talk about Brautigan’s beautiful short story collection “Revenge of the Lawn” (1971).
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New episode out today! 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Infinite Jest, arguably David Foster Wallace’s most famous and celebrated book. In this episode, prof. Marshall Boswell discusses Wallace’s three brilliant short story collections.
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New episode out today! In which Naomi Kanakia (a.k.a Woman of Letters on Substack) tells the fascinating tale of the so-called “New Yorker short story”.
Listen here www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...
New episode coming out soon! In which Sam Reese tells the fascinating story of four writers who used short fiction as an outlet for countercultural expression. Stay tuned!
Out today! Listen to Paul March-Russell discuss the importance of women writers in science fiction and the legacy of the short story collection “Women of Wonder” (1974) edited by Pamela Sargent.
Paul March-Russell is the co-founder of GoldSF.
Listen here!
www.spreaker.com/episode/wome...
Out on 26th February! What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes a writer to feel blocked? In the next episode, I’ll discuss these questions with Aaron Colton, Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta. Stay tuned!
New episode out today (you really don’t want to miss this one)!
What can fictional representations of blocked short story writers teach us about writer’s block and what causes it? Listen to this episode with @acolton.bsky.social to find out!
Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/writ...
New episode! Listen to Chigozirim Nwaosu discuss the representation of gender and sexuality in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2009 collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Chigozirim is a PhD candidate in the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Surrey.
www.spreaker.com/episode/chim...
Very happy to share that my article on American short fiction and Covid-19 is now available online, and it’s open access!
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
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This article investigates how the American short story responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. It shows how several authors turned to an aesthetic that Barbara Claire Freeman defined in 1995 as the “fe...
