Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Gabriel García Márquez didn’t just write stories—he created ...

Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge to see how many books you can read in a year. Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December – some of ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Jim Ruland, a fiction writer, punk historian and a longtime contributor to the Los Angeles Times, and this summer I’ll be ...

Put down the tome – there are easier ways to tackle your 2026 reading goal. Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes that "read more" resolution can feel like a challenge. To help jump-start your ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Amelia Gray, Lindsay Hunter and a handful of other recently buzzed-about novelists got their literary starts in shorter-form writing. Loosely defined as writings comprised of 1,000 words or less, ...