Sorry, the short story boom is bogus - Salon.com:
"“Good Fit for Today’s Little Screens: Short Stories” was greeted with hurrahs in many quarters of the literary world. That’s understandable, given that so many have striven to write and publish the best short fiction they can, only to have their work greeted with general indifference. But just because publishers are, in Kaufman’s words, “sensing a market opportunity” does not mean that a new market — let alone a booming one — actually exists. That’s not to say that it wouldn’t be lovely if smartphones suddenly led to an expanded enthusiasm for literary short stories, but a newspaper’s job is to describe the world as it is, not as the members of an industry wish it would be."
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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