Why Cormac McCarthy Doesn’t Write Short Stories

I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

(Via).

“Honoring the Subjunctive” — Lydia Davis

“Honoring the Subjunctive,” a very short story by Lydia Davis, from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

It invariably precedes, even if it do not altogether supersede, the determination of what is absolutely desirable and just.

Heroes of 2010 — PS22 Chorus