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The Canadian short story: digging into the stats
Over at The Danforth Review, Michael Bryson has written a long survey on “Short Fiction in Canada, 2004/05.” The overall theme here seems to be the contrast between “realistic” fiction and more “avant-garde” forms, and Bryson lines up plenty of quotations from commentators and authors in support of one or the other. Taking the ReLit Awards short-story-collection longlist as a sample, Bryson unearths some hard numbers: “Of the 30 titles … 17 appear to be generally ‘realistic’ and seven appear to be generally ‘experimental,’ with six seeming to me to be too close to call.” Further number-crunching ensues, bringing in issues of geography and gender.
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Taking the pulse of online fiction
The online litmag The Danforth Review has a long look at the boom in online short fiction. TDR‘s Corin Cummings conducts brief interviews with the editors of a handful of websites — from Pindeldyboz‘s Shauna McKenna to Mississippi Review‘s Frederick Barthelme. Says the latter: “While [the ease of publishing online] may bring some crap to the fore, publishing on the Internet also brings out into the public eye lots of strange and wonderful stuff, a lot of stuff that Knopf is not going to publish, but which, in its own peculiar and isolated way is symptomatic and revelatory, and tells us about our world in a way we might not hear through other channels.”
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