![]() I decided that I needed to read Sedaris’ work after nearly every comment about Crosley’s writing mentioned him. I loved Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cakeand I also enjoyed reading the collection of vignettes that inspired A Christmas Story. While I didn’t immediately fall in love with the genre, I’ve begun to realize that shorter articles and stories aren’t always hard to pay attention to. I started with a collection entitled Icons Of England that Bill Bryson curated and followed it up with Best Food Writing of 2011. Then at a certain point in my post-high school reading journey it became obvious that I would be able to avoid the world of short stories no longer. ![]() Those works had a time and place in my life, but I promptly bid them adieu when I walked out of my eleventh grade English class. I’m sick of analyzing and doubting each word in a sentence. ![]() The author uses the reduced space as an excuse to jam every word with arcane allusions and mysterious metaphors. Instead of having a fun and personable tone, short stories are dense and heavy. ![]() Unfortunately, this theory is rarely supported. I like them in theory because, in theory, they are short and snappy like a good magazine article. ![]() Short stories and me have a tricky history. ![]()
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