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Why NYT's 'Short Story Boom' Is Bogus
In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Junot Diaz, 43, a fiction writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seen in Cambridge, Mass. Diaz, a recipient of one of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," was named a finalist, Wednesday, Oct. 10, for a National Book Award for his book, This is How You Lose Her," a series of stories about love. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Tsar Fedorsky)
In this Sept. 20, 2012 photo provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Junot Diaz, 43, a fiction writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seen in Cambridge, Mass. Diaz, a recipient of one of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," was named a finalist, Wednesday, Oct. 10, for a National Book Award for his book, This is How You Lose Her," a series of stories about love. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Tsar Fedorsky)

The short story, like the western, is periodically said to be on the brink of a comeback. The most recent example of this boosterism: an article by the New York Times' new(ish) publishing reporter, Leslie Kaufman, titled "Good Fit for Today's Little Screens: Short Stories," in which "a proliferation of digital options" is said to offer short fiction "not only new creative opportunities but exposure and revenue as well."

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