Category: Book Reviews – Short Stories
Book Review: Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck
In The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the reader is exposed to characters that are many things, including a surprise to those who have been limited to a Western literary interpretation of Nigerian culture. Adichie insists on considering the wide variety of Nigerian stories to be [...]
Meredith Sue Willis’ Re-visions – Book Review by Diane Simmons
The stories in Meredith Sue Willis’ new collection, Re-visons: Stories from Stories, will take you back to your Scripture, your Shakespeare and your Harriet Beecher Stowe. And when you do glance back at the stories that Willis here “re-visions” you might be surprised at the way in which women figure in these well-known works from [...]
Claiming a Space in the World – Diane Simmons’ Short Stories
Chick lit covers wearing on you? Glossy images of impossibly long legs and microscopic pink dresses? If the shopping mall and the salon are too confining, enjoy kicking a little fictional butt. Little America Diane Simmons 115 pp. trade paperback The Ohio State University Press, 2011 In Little America, which won The Ohio State University [...]
