AMERICAN literature, excellent as it is by way of its poetry, is excellent much more by way of its prose. Received opinion, however, stands for the converse. Conscious that in emotion, invention, and ...

The question which the new poetry has forced upon prose — a question which, so far as I am aware, has hardly been considered, so busy have we been discussing the upstart verse-forms — is almost ...

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Flash fiction is a literary genre where less is more. Novelists Ernest Hemingway and Franz Kafka may not have used the term, but have engaged with such forms of prose in their short story collections.