1.0 link 53862 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-antosca/anointing-the-bjoerklike_b_53862.html You don't write a short story collection for the money or the glory. It's not there. Distressingly few people read them; only a few get even modest attention. For all the lamentation about fiction's dwindling readership, there have been great novels published in the last decade and some of them -- most notably, I'd argue, Edward P. Jones's majestic The Known World -- have even been richly rewarded. But short story collections (except, happily, those by the inimitable George Saunders)...

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