Thanks to everyone who participated in the The Warm Up for Winter Reading Challenge. If you haven't already emailed me your links, please do so, anyone who participates get their first choice of one book for the new challenge, Summer is Short: Read a Story.
Over the course of the summer, we're reading, writing about, promoting and discussing the short story. HarperPerennial in the US came up with this amazing campaign (based on the above saying coined by Ann Patchett), and I fell a little bit in love with it. Over the next few months you'll be able to read a new short story on our own Perennial web site (currently it's Francis Itani's "Bolero"), and starting June 1st, we'll have another exciting announcement. So, without further ado, here's your Summer is Short: Read a Story challenge:
1. Any one of these Classic Shorts: Tolstoy, Cather, Wilde, Melville, Crane, Dostoyevsky
2. Any one of these collections:
Forms of Devotion by Diane Schoemperlen
A Hard Witching by Jacqueline Baker
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
Leaning, Leaning Over Water by Francis Itani
Dust to Dust by Timothy Findley
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
The Roaring Girl by Greg Hollingshead
Some Rain Must Fall by Michel Faber
Last Notes and Other Stories by Tamas Dobozy
The Turning by Tim Winton
We So Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy
Casino and Other Stories by Bonnie Burnard
Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger
Coronado by Dennis Lehane
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Wild Nights by Joyce Carol Oates
Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen
Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper
Not so hard to read two books of short stories over the summer! As always, email me (deanna.mcfadden@harpercollins.com) your blog posts, twitter tweets, Facebook recommendations...and you'll be entered to win a fall book of your choice.
I just stumbled on this and it sounds exciting. I am going to pass it onto a friend and see if she wishes to join too.
Posted by: Bookworm17 | June 04, 2009 at 10:10 PM