Quill and Quire

Fiction: Short

By Ayelet Tsabari

Ayelet Tsabari’s penetrating debut short-story collection begins with “Tikkun,” about a chance reunion in a Jerusalem café between two former lovers whose lives have followed divergent paths in the seven years since splitting up. Lior, ... Read More »

March 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Katie Boland

The stories in Eat Your Heart Out explore failed relationships and missed opportunities. Loneliness and regret permeate the collection, but it’s saved from depressing monotony by Toronto actress Katie Boland’s use of voice and tone ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Holley Rubinsky

Holley Rubinsky’s fourth book is a collection of 18 short stories that addresses the theme of liminality: her characters, mostly female, transgress borders of countries and relationships, and stand, tentatively, on the threshold of new ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Ian Rogers

Short-story collections give fantasy and horror writers an opportunity to indulge imaginative premises. In his first collection, Ian Rogers displays his original vision via characters such as a professor who discovers a forest of perpetual ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Spencer Gordon

The word “spiritual” appears in each of the first three stories in Spencer Gordon’s debut collection, an appropriate marker for a book that traffics so resolutely in the existential malaise of our pop-culture-saturated world. Gordon’s ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short