The Most Remarkable Works of Fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri talks with The Star, Toronto’s newspaper, about the short story.
“In the wider world, there is a terrible hierarchy that people have between stories and novels. There is a sense that bigger is better and smaller is a diminutive, lesser thing. It’s maddening to me because I don’t understand it. I just think that if one is a serious reader of fiction, that argument doesn’t really hold very much water because some of the most remarkable works of fiction are short.”
I know I’ve already written about Jhumpa Lahiri, but I find it interesting that reporters everywhere have been asking her about why she writes short stories instead of novels and what the short story means to her. She speaks so beautifully about short stories that I hear myself saying, “Yay! Short Stories!”
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