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    25 - Introduction to the Short Story

    enDecember 02, 2020
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    About this Episode

    Episode 25 tackles the subject of the short story. What is it (yes, of course, it’s short)? But there’s more to it than that. In this episode Barry defines terms and gives us a crash course in some of the most important, twentieth-century, writers.

    In Episode 26 we’ll take a deep dive into Barry’s introduction to The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson.

    One more thing: if you missed the writers Barry talked about in this episode, here’s a guide:

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

    Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1949)

    D. H. Lawrence (1880-1930)

    William Faulkner (1897-1962)

    Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

    Richard Wright (1908-1960)

    Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

    Truman Capote (1924-1984)

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