Kelly Link Will Always Love Short Stories
It’s Halloween, so I’ve been thinking about Zombies, which always makes me think of Kelly Link. The other day at an editorial meeting, a friend of mine told me a story about a doctor who cured people of irrational fears. One of his patients had an irrational fear of Zombies.
“What I don’t understand is why being afraid of Zombies is irrational?” My friend said. ”I mean, they’re SCARY!”
So I guess that makes it a totally rational fear.
Kelly Link recently gave an interview to The Nation. She was asked if people are always asking her if she is ever going to write a novel:
Yes. Part of me thinks it’s a reasonable question, and I also think, Well, if you like the short stories, shouldn’t you ask for more short stories? I don’t think there’s any guarantee that I would write novels that work in the same way the stories work. I don’t think I have the skill set yet. I would love to write a novel, but mostly because it seems like a shame not to try to do something that a lot of people want you to do. I feel sort of like a coward every time I start a short story. But I think I will always love short stories. I’m more excited by short story collections in general–a lot of the editing or anthology work I do is based around the short story. I love novels. Some of my best friends are novels! But I really love short stories best.
You can read the rest of the interview here.
And you can download her book, Stranger Things Happen, for free on her website.
Happy Halloween!
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I love short stories too. And when I write yet another I must admit there is often a slight unsettling there - why not a book? That’s our culture for you! We must be strong and stick to the genre that we enjoy.
June in Oz
Comment by June Saville — November 6, 2008 @ 10:15 pm