Tag: Edgar Allan Poe
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BBC National Short Story Award 2013
£7.99 – available now Congratulations to Sarah Hall, who was named this week as the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2013. Her story, Mrs Fox, is an earthy fable about a complacent husband whose wife undergoes a shocking transformation. Hall emerged as the winner of the £15,000 prize from an all-female shortlist…
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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Joyce Carol Oates
With a 50-year career that takes in novels, short stories, young adult fiction, poetry, reviews, and edited anthologies as well as book-length memoirs and essays ranging from widowhood to boxing, keeping up with the astonishing literary output of Joyce Carol Oates is a job of work. But it’s an occupation that never feels like a…