The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Belgium is a country with a split personality.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.